De monstris et monstrosis, quam mirabilis, bonus, et iustus, in mundo administrando, sit Deus, monstrantibus / authore Georgio Stengelio, Soc. Iesu Theologo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stengel, Georg, 1584-1651.

Contributor:

Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Kilian, Wolfgang, 1581-1662, engraver.

Hänlin, Gregor, 1589-1674, printer.

Wagner, Johann, active 1645-1680, publisher.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Teratology--Early works to 1800.

Teratology.

Abnormalities, Human--Early works to 1800.

Abnormalities, Human.

Physical Description:

[16], 636, [52] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

De monstris et monstrosis, qvam mirabilis, bonvs, et ivstvs, in mvndo administrando, sit Devs, monstrantibvs

Fingerprint:

i-n. coæ- ura- viXa (3) 1647 (A)

Place of Publication:

Ingolstadij : Apud Gregorium Haenlin : Sumtu Ioannis Wagneri, anno 1647.

Language Note:

In Latin with Greek references.

Notes:

Signatures: A-2X⁸.

Engraved title vignette signed: Wolf. Kilian scul.

Woodcut initials.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

"Permissu Superiorum et cum privilegio Sacra Caesareae Maiestatis."

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has ms. shelf-mark ("H III 64b") in brown ink on front pastedown; early ms. numeral ("2") in brown ink on title leaf.

Lea Library copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts.

Lea Library copy has blue ink monogram stamp ("GK") at foot of title leaf.

Lea Library copy bound in full parchment; evidence of early spine title and shelf-mark(?) in red and brown ink; all edges blue.

Lea Library copy: spine damaged.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

OCLC:

8042055