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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lonicer, Adam, 1528-1586.

Contributor:

Chr. Egenolffs Erben, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Naturalis historiae opus novum. German

Language:

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Botany--Pre-Linnean works.

Botany.

Botany, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Botany, Medical.

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Zoology, Medical--Early works to 1800.

Zoology, Medical.

Distillation--Early works to 1800.

Distillation.

Penn Provenance:

Fuegi, John (donor) (RBC copy)

Francis, Jo (donor) (RBC copy)

Amilon, Carl Fredric (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered leaves, CCCLXXXII leaves, 4 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, portrait ; 32 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

++++ r.b. s.er hena (3) 1587 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Zu Franckfort : Bey Christian Egenolffs seligen Erben, 1587.

Language Note:

German translation of: Naturalis historiae opus novum.

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: leaves )(1-2 (including title leaf), MM6 and NN5-6 (including colophon) wanting. Title, imprint, pagination and collation supplied from Richter. The missing leaves are supplied in color facsimile from another edition published by Christian Egenolffs Erben in 1582.

Colophon on leaf NN5r reads: Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn bey Christian Egenolphs Erben nemlich Doc. Ioannis Cnipij vnd Pauli Steinmeyers beyder seligen Witwinen vnd Ioanne Adamo Lonicero. M. DLXXXVII.

Signatures: )(⁶ 2-3*⁴ A-O⁶ P⁴ Q-Z⁶ a-z⁶ Aa-Ee⁶ Ff⁴ AA-MM⁶ NN⁶ (leaf NN6 blank?).

Leaf c1 signed "g".

Title in red and black (first three words of title are a xylograph).

Woodcut title vignette, illustrations, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Initials.

Printed marginalia.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has ms. sketches in pencil on front pastedown and in tail margin of leaves C5v and C6r; ms. calculations on leaf )(6v; ms. notes in black, green, and light brown ink throughout text; foliation supplied in ms. Arabic numerals; signature mark on leaf c1 corrected in ms.; ms. manicule on leaf EE2r.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by John Fuegi and Jo Francis.

RBC copy has early autograph ("Carl Fredric Amilon.") on front pastedown.

RBC copy: illustrations hand-colored.

RBC copy bound in full early blind-tooled leather; 5 raised bands on spine; 2 cloth fore-edge ties.

RBC copy: portion of leaf E3 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text (supplied on two facsimile slips tipped in before and after this leaf); portion of leaf M4 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one); lower portion of leaf P4 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on facsimile leaves tipped in before and after this one); outer portion of leaf BB6 torn off with and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one); lower portion of leaf CC1 torn off with and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one); lower portion of leaf FF4 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one); lower portion of leaf HH3 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with some loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one); lower portion of leaf HH5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf with significant loss of text (supplied on a facsimile leaf tipped in before this one).

RBC copy: many leaves torn or torn and mended in one or more places (usually margins); some leaves stained; portion of tail margin of leaf A3 torn off and mended with Japanese tissue; hole in upper portion of leaves D4-D5 with minor damage to text; tail outer corner of leaf E1 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; leaf G5 cut and mended in two places with blank leaves; worming in head and inner margins of leaves c5-e3; tail outer corner of leaf CC4 torn off and mended with Japanese tissue; tail outer corner of leaf DD1 torn off and mended with Japanese tissue with minor damage to printed marginalia on recto; tail outer corner of leaves GG2-GG3, GG5 and HH1 each torn off and mended with a blank leaf; portion of tail margin of leaf HH6 torn off and mended with Japanese tissue; leaves of gathering NN mended at fore-edge.

Cited in:

VD 16 L 2424

Richter, G. Christian Egenolffs Erben, 536

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration 1228

OCLC:

961414006