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Icones stirpium, seu plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum : in gratiam rei herbariae studiosorum in duas partes digestae : cum septem linguarum indicibus, ad diuersarum nationum vsum.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QK98 .L6 1591
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- L'Obel, Matthias de, 1538-1616.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Botany--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Exotic plants--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Exotic plants.
- Endemic plants--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
- Endemic plants.
- Plants.
- Medical Subjects:
- Botany.
- Plants.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Colin, Antoine (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Faculté de médecine de Strasbourg (stamp) (RBC copy)
- Université de Strasbourg (stamp) (RBC copy)
- Fuegi, John (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Francis, Jo (former owner) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 816, 280 pages, 56 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm (4to)
- Fingerprint:
- eois 5.e, m.++ cuPa (3) 1591 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam et Ioannem Moretum, MDXCI [1591]
- Notes:
- A collection combining the illustrations published in the works of Dodoens, LʹÉcluse and de LʹObel, arranged by the latter. Cf. Vander Haeghen, Bibl. belgica, and NUC pre-1956 imprints.
- Signatures: 3*⁴ A-Z⁸ a-z⁸ AA-EE⁸ Aa-Rr⁸ Ss⁴ [Maltese cross]-7[Maltese cross]⁴.
- Woodcut title vignette (printer's device), illustrations, initials, and tail-piece.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.
- RBC copy imperfect: all after leaf 4[Maltese cross]4 wanting.
- RBC copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; contemporary ms. notes in brown ink in text.
- RBC copy was purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from John Fuegi and Joanne Francis.
- RBC copy has contemporary dated ms. ownership and purchase inscription ("Ex libris antonij Colin[...] Lugdunensia philopharmac[...?] et amicorum Emptus Lugduni anno a part[u?] virginis 1597 duobus aure") of Antoine Colin, pharmacist of Lyon, and friends in brown ink on title leaf.
- RBC copy has oval stamp ("FACULTE DE MEDECINE DE STRASBOURG" around bearded male bust above "HIPOKRATES" in Greek characters) of the Faculté de médecine de Strasbourg on title leaf; oval duplicate stamp ("K.U. & L.R. STRASSBURG DUBLETTE") of the Université de Strasbourg on title leaf.
- RBC copy bound in full early leather; boards ruled in gold; 4 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; portion of gold-stamped label ("[...]CONES [...]ANTARUM") on spine.
- RBC closely cropped at head and fore-edge margins with occasional damage to or loss of headlines and page numbers; leaf A3 damaged and mended at tail and fore-edges (signature mark supplied in ms. on recto); leaves [Maltese cross]1, 2[Maltese cross]4 and 4[Maltese cross]1 damaged and mended at tail margin; leaf 3[Maltese cross]3 damaged and mended at fore-edge margin.
- OCLC:
- 12181367
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