T. Lucretij Cari De rerum natura libri VI / a Dion. Lambino Monstroliensi, litterarum Graecarum in vrbe Lutetia doctore regio, olim locis innumerabilibus ex auctoritate quinque codicum manu scriptorum emendati, ac ferè redintegrati, & praeterea breuibus ac perquam vtilibus commentariis illustrati, nunc ab eodem recogniti, & longè meliores facti, planéque iam in suam pristinam integritatem restituti ; cum iisdem commentariis, plus quarta parte auctis ; quae praeterea accesserint, indicabit versa pagella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucretius Carus, Titus.

Contributor:

Lambin, Denys, 1520 or 1521-1572.

Andreae Wecheli Heredes, printer.

Jay I. Kislak Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De rerum natura

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry.

Didactic poetry, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy)--Early works to 1800.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy).

Genre:

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Penn Provenance:

Kislak, Jay I. (donor)

Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617 (armorial binding) (former owner)

Chastenet, Antoine (bookplate)

Elton, Mary Augusta, 1838-1914 (bookplate)

Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-1787 (former owner)

Physical Description:

LXVIII, 883 pages, 209 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

T. Lvcretii Cari De rervm natvra libri VI

T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri VI

De rerum natura libri VI

De rervm natvra libri VI

Fingerprint:

i,a- *,s: u-a. ca** (3) 1583 (R)

Place of Publication:

Francofurti : Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli, MDLXXXIII [1583]

Language Note:

Latin text with some Greek in commentary.

Notes:

Signatures: *-4*⁸ 5*² a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ Aa-Yy⁸ Zz².

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), initials and head-pieces.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy has early ms. shelf-mark ("T.C.H.T.3.H.8"), struck through, of the library of Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, in brown ink on front pastedown; 2 ms. inscriptions ("3H" and "V.") in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; a few ms. marginal notes in text.

Presented to the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts by Jay I. Kislak in 2014.

Kislak Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS ANTOINE CHASTENET") of Antoine Chastenet on front pastedown; illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS M.A. ELTON" with motto: "NON NORVNT HAEC MONVMENTA MORI") of Mary Augusta Elton on front pastedown.

Kislak Collection copy bound in full contemporary parchment; boards double-ruled in gold with small gold-stamped ornament in each corner and gold-stamped supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) in center (containing his arms and a banner with his name: "IAC. AVGVST THVANVS"); gold-ruled spine panels, one with title ("T. LVCRET. CVM COMMENT. DION LAMBINI."), the rest with de Thou's IADT monogram; all edges gilt; evidence of two fore-edge ties.

Cited in:

VD 16 L 3124

OCLC:

23168833