Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis De propria vita liber : ex bibliotheca Gab. Naudaei ; adjecto hac secunda editione de praeceptis ad filios libello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.

Contributor:

Ravestein, Johann, bookseller.

Hoeve, Willem van der, active 1639-1685, printer.

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

E. B. Krumbhaar Fund.

Standardized Title:

De propria vita

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576--Early works to 1800.

Cardano, Girolamo.

Cardano, Girolamo, 1501-1576.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Murray, Archibald (autograph) (Elzevier copy)

Physical Description:

72 unnumbered pages, 288 pages ; 14 cm (12mo)

Edition:

[Second edition].

Manufacture:

Goudae : Typis Guilielmi vander Hoeven.

Other Title:

De propria vita liber

Fingerprint:

t.si t,t, emeo pase (3) 1654 (R)

Place of Publication:

Amstelaedami : Apud Joannem Ravesteinium, MDCLIV [1654]

Notes:

Autobiographical.

Colophon on leaf M12v, which reads: Goudae, Typis Guilielmi vander Hoeve, MDCLIV.

Signatures: *-3*¹² A-M¹² (leaf 3*12 blank).

Woodcut title ornament (device of Johann Ravestein; cf. Rahir, p. 452, no. 212) and initials; type ornament head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the E. B. Krumbhaar Fund.

Elzevier copy has a few ms. marks in pencil in text.

Elzevier copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Co.

Elzevier copy has autograph ("Archd. Murray") of Archibald Murray on front pastedown.

Elzevier copy found in full contemporary parchment; 6 raised bands on spine; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("H. CARDAN DE PROPRIA VITA 1654"); all edges red.

Cited in:

STCN 841437696

Willems, A. Elzevier, 1679

OCLC:

21660013