Epitome Bibliothecae Conradi Gesneri / conscripta primum à Conrado Lycosthene Rubeaquensi: nunc denuo, recognita & plus quàm bis mille authorum accessione (qui omnes asterisco signati sunt) locupletata: per Iosiam Simlerum Tigurinum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561.

Contributor:

Froschauer, Christoph, approximately 1490-1564, printer.

Simmler, Josias, 1530-1576.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565.

Gessner, Conrad.

Early printed books--Catalogs--Early works to 1800.

Early printed books.

Bio-bibliography--Early works to 1800.

Bio-bibliography.

Greek literature--Bibliography--Early.

Greek literature.

Greek literature--Bibliography.

Hebrew literature--Bibliography--Early works to 1800.

Hebrew literature.

Latin literature--Bibliography--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature.

Latin literature--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Couvent de l'Annonciation (Paris, rue Saint-Honoré) (1611-1792) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Dominicans (Paris, France) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 184 leaves, 14 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

liem e.s, e&æ. Vedi (3) 1555 (R)

Place of Publication:

Tiguri : Apud Christophorum Froschouerum, Mense Martio, Anno MDLV [1555]

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes: Thomas Naogeorg's Carmen Ad Emptorem.

Printer's device with inscription "Christof Froshower zu Zurich" on titlepage.

Signatures: *⁶ a-z⁶ A-K⁶ (K6 blank).

Main body of text printed in double columns.

Woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine; remains of two leather ties.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription: "Paradis 1637" on front free endpaper and two illegible inscriptions (one inked over and one excised) on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscriptions from the Couvent de l'Annonciation in Paris: "Ex libris Conventua Parisiensis Sanctissimae Mariae Annunciatae, Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum, in via nova Sancti Honorati. 6 martij 1647" on title page and "Ex libris St. [...] Paris[iens]is ad S. Honoratum" on leaf *2.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: upper portion of leaves dampstained.

Cited in:

Adams, G 518

VD 16, G 1703

Contains:

Naogeorg, Thomas, 1511-1563. Carmen Ad Emptorem.

OCLC:

49984765