Cosmographey oder Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschafften, fürnemsten Stetten, Geschichten, Gebreüche[n], Hantierungen etc. / erstmals beschriben durch Sebastianum Munsterum ; auch durch jn selbst gebessert an Welt vnd natürliche[n] Historie[n], jetzunder aber biss auff das M.D. LXIIII. Jar nach Jnhalt nach folgendes Blats Verzeichung vyl gemehret ; jtem mit hübschen Figuren vnd Landtafle[n] geziert, sunderlichen aber werde[n] darin[n] co[n]trafehtet acht vn[d] viertzig Stett, vnder welchen bey dreissig auss teütscher Nation nach jrer Gelege[n]heit darzu kom[m]en, vnd von der Stette[n] Oberkeite[n] dohin sampt jren Beschreibungen verordnet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

Contributor:

Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, printer.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Cosmographia

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Geography--Early works to 1800.

Geography.

Maps--Specimens--Early works to 1800.

Maps.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Gadolla, Franz, Ritter von, 1797-1866 (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Mensdorff-Pouilly, Arthur von, 1817-1904 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Mensdorff-Pouilly, Alphons von, 1810-1894 (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

[32], dccc, dccv-dccclxii, [2], dccclxiii-dccccxliij, dccccxlix-dcccclij, dcccclvij-Mcccclxxv, [1] pages, xiiij folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm (fol.)

Manufacture:

Getruckt zu Basel : Durch Henrichum Petri, jm Jar M.D. LXIIII. [1564]

Fingerprint:

chme d.t. ald, beha (3) 1564 (R)

Notes:

Originally published as: Cosmographia. Beschreibung aller Lender. 1554.

Printer's name and imprint date from colophon on leaf GGG6r, which reads: Getruckt zu Basel durch Henrichum Petri, Im jar M. D. LXIIII.

Signatures: [superscript pi]a⁶ a⁴ b⁶ A-F⁸ G⁴ H² I⁴ K⁶ L-P⁸ Q⁴ R² S⁸ T⁶ V⁸ X⁴ Y² Z⁶ Aa-Ll⁸ Mm⁶ Nn² Oo-Qq⁸ Rr⁴ Ss² Tt-Vv⁴ Xx⁶ Yy⁸ Zz⁴ Aaa-Bbb⁸ Ccc⁶ Ddd⁸(Ddd5+chi1) Eee-Hhh⁴ Iii⁸ Kkk⁶ Lll² Mmm⁸ Nnn² Ooo⁸ Ppp² Qqq-Rrr⁸ Sss⁶ Ttt² Vvv⁴ Xxx-Zzz⁸ AAa-BBb⁸ CCc-FFf⁴ GGg⁸ HHh⁶ IIi⁴ KKk-LLl⁸ MMm-NNn⁴ OOo-RRr⁸ SSs⁴ TTt-VVv⁸ XXx⁶ YYy⁴ ZZz⁸ AAA-EEE⁸ FFF-GGG⁶.

Leaf LL1 is unsigned.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Title within historiated woodcut border; woodcut illustrations and printer's device.

Each of the fourteen folded leaves of plates has title within woodcut border on verso.

There are 3 folding views which comprise eight pages each: the first found between pages dcxcij and dcxcvij is numbered dcxciij-dcxcv and forms gathering NN; the second between dcccxciiij and dcccxcix is numbered dcccxcv-dcccxcvij and signed Hhh and Hhh2; the third found between pages dcccclxxvi and dcccclxxxj is numbered dcccclxxvij-dcccclxxix and forms gathering Ppp.

Printed marginalia.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: leaves KKk4, RRr1, VVv3 and DDD3 wanting.

RBC copy has manuscript shelf-mark(?) ("XXII.A.16. retro") on front pastedown; manuscript inscriptions ("Sanguores" and "Tomas Schlad[...]s") on front pastedown; a few early manuscript notes in text and on back pastedown.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd.

RBC copy has early manuscript purchase note ("Emptus Viteberg[a]e 17 Februarij. Anno 67 3 Ioachimicis et 3 gr [struck through: duobus [...] dono datis[?] [...] vogell[?]]") at head of front pastedown; the same manuscript note ("Emptus Vigeberg[a]e 17 Februarij anno [added: 1]67 3 Ioachimicis et 3 gr.") in another hand followed by partial versions of the same note on front pastedown.

RBC copy has dated 19th-century manuscript provenance inscription ("Dieses Buch ward mir durch den [...]: Franz Ritter v. Gadolla im Jahre 1862 als er Schloss Thurn an den Freiherrn von Suckendorf verkauft als [...] geschenkt. Schloss Ainedt bei Cilli am 21- November 1862.- Arthur Graf Mensdorff-Pouilly") on front pastedown; dated 19th-century manuscript gift inscription ("Im Jahre 1884 schenkte ich dieses Buch meinem Bruder Alfons für seine Bibliothek im Schloss Boskovvitz. Schloss Ainedt bei Cilli 29. August 1884. Arthur Graf Mensdorff-Pouilly") on front pastedown.

RBC copy: upper portion of leaf Dd6 (woodcut map of Sicily) torn off and replaced with a blank leaf.

RBC copy: leaves [superscript pi]a1-[superscript pi]a4 mended at fore-edge margin; tail outer corner of leaves D7, V2, Ii4 and CCC2 torn off; leaf Gg2 has tear in tail margin; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf NN1 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; portion of tail margin of leaf Sss2 torn off; head outern corner of leaf Ttt torn off; tear in head margin of leaves HHh2-HHh3 mended.

RBC copy bound in full blind-tooled parchment(?) over indented beveled-edge wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; remains of manuscript spine label; remains of 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps with metal catchplates; housed in clamshell case created by Nancy H. Nitzberg with printed paper spine label ("MUNSTER COSMOGRAPHEY 1564"), opening into a reading stand.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited in:

Sabin, 51390

JCB Lib cat., pre-1675, 1:225

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 564/35

VD 16 M 6698

OCLC:

1026713623