Hieronymi Mercurialis de arte gymnastica libri sex : in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid deniq. ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet, diligenter explicatur. : opus non modo medicis, verum etiam omnibus antiquarum rerum cognoscendarum, & valetudinus conseruandae studiosis admodum vtile. : Ad Maximilianum II Imperatorem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606.

Contributor:

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576, dedicatee.

Giunta, Lucantonio, 1540-1602, editor.

Series:

Early European books.

Standardized Title:

De arte gymnastica

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Physical education and training--Early works to 1800.

Physical education and training.

Exercise--Early works to 1800.

Exercise.

Gymnastics--Early works to 1800.

Gymnastics.

Genre:

Woodcuts (prints) -- Italy -- Sixteenth century (dates CE).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (12 unnumbered pages, 308, that is, 312 pages, 28 unnumbered pages) : illustrations (woodcuts), plans (woodcuts)

Edition:

Secunda editione aucti, & multis figuris ornati.

Other Title:

Hieronymi Mercvrialis De arte gymnastica libri sex

De arte gymnastica libri sex

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : Apud Iuntas, MDLXXIII [1573]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

First published in Venice in 1569 without illustrations (plan only). Cf. Mortimer.

Colophon reads: Venetiis apud Iuntas MDLXXIII.

Edition statement follows first added title information on the t.p.

Roman, italic and Greek type; 24 full-page woocut plates of illustrations, included in pagination.

Signatures: *⁶ A-C⁸ D¹⁰ E-S⁸ T¹⁰ V⁸ X⁶.

The pagination in gathering D is doubled in part: each of the pages numbered 53 through 56 is followed by a page numbered 53 2° through 56 2°, respectively.

Last page blank.

Title vignette (printer's device of fleur-de-lis with the initials L.A.), repeated in another form at colophon; initials.

"Auctorum nomina, quorum fide & testimonio hi libri conscripti sunt" on leaf *6.

Includes index.

Errata on leaf V2r.

Reproduction of original in: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. ProQuest, 2011 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2011 miun o

Cited in:

Harvard College Library. Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Italian 16th century books, 302

Edizioni italiane del XVI secolo, CNCE 46968

Camerini, P. Annali dei Giunti, no. 759

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze catalog, CFMAGL. 1.7.424

Universal short title catalogue, 842184

OCLC:

928381993

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