Inclytorum Saxoniae Sabaudiaeq[ue] principum arbor gentilitia / Philiberto Pingonio authore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pingone, Emanuele Filiberto, barone di Cusy, 1525-1582.

Contributor:

Haeredes Nicolai Bevilaquae, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Savoy, House of--Early works to 1800.

Savoy, House of.

Savoy (France and Italy)--Kings and rulers--Genealogy--Early works to 1800.

Savoy (France and Italy).

Savoy (France and Italy)--History--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Biographies.

Family histories.

Penn Provenance:

Hoffman, Ferdinand, 1540-1607 (armorial binding) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 120 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Inclytorvm Saxoniae Sabavdiaeq[ue] principvm arbor gentilitia

Fingerprint:

ami- t.t- i.g. inHe (3) 1581 (R)

Place of Publication:

Augustae Taurinorum [i.e Turin] : Apud haeredes Nicolai Beuilaquae, MDLXXXI [1581]

Notes:

Signatures: a⁴ A-P⁴ Q², ²a² (leaf H1 unsigned).

Register on leaf Q1v.

Woodcut title vignette (coat of arms), devices (leaves K6v and Q2v) and initials.

Woodcut frames, most left empty for armorial paintings, a few containing woodcut portraits.

Text of each page printed within border of double rules.

Printed marginalia.

Errata on leaf Q2r.

Directions to the illustrator ("Ad pictorem") on leaves ²a1r-²a2v.

On leaf C3r, a paper slip containing an empty woodcut frame has been pasted over the woodcut frame and portrait. The design of the replacement frame varies from copy to copy.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Thietmar, von Merseburg. Chronici Ditmari episcopi Mersepurgii, libri VII. nunc primùm in lucem editi. Francofurti ad Moenum : Ex officina typographica Andreae Wecheli, MDLXXX [1580].

Penn Libraries copy without illustration.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on recto and verso of front free endpaper; ms. shelf-mark ("A, iii, 32") in red pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 1954.

Penn Libraries copy has large engraved armorial bookplate ("Ex Bibliotecha Illustris ac Generosi Domini D[omi]ni Ferdinandi Hoffman Liberi Baronis in Grunpuhel et Strecau, D[omi]ni in Grevenstain et Lanonwitz, Supremi Haereditarii Curiae Magistri Ducatus Styriae et Supremi Marsalci Archiducatus Austriae, Sacratiss[i]mae Caes[ar]ae et Regiae Maiestatis Consiliarii et Camerae aulicae Praefecti, etc.") of Ferdinand Hoffman, Freiherr von Grünbüchel und Stechau, on front pastedown: "a striking Baroque engraving by L. Kilian after M. Göndelach."--Bookseller's description.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full green parchment; boards tooled in gold; supralibros of Ferdinand Hoffman, Freiherr von Grünbüchel und Stechau, stamped in gold on boards; gold-tooled spine panels; partially illegible ms. spine label ("CHR[...]ICON Dit[...]ri Episcopi Mersepurgi librj vii. auth: Reinero Heine. Franc[...] 158[...] [...] [...]bor [...]cion Saxoniae, autore Philiberto [...]ngonio Augus[...] 1591"); all edges stippled red and blue.

Penn Libraries copy: gathering ²a bound in after leaf a4.

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's typescript description of this copy laid in.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: gathering Q wanting; plate wanting.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 33744

OCLC:

28939524