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Georgii Agricolae De mensuris & ponderibus Romanorum atque Græcorum lib. V : De externis mensuris & ponderibus lib. II : Ad ea, quæ Andreas Alciatus denuo disputauit de mensuris & ponderibus, breuis defensio, lib. I : De mensuris, quibus interualla metimur lib. I : De restituendis ponderibus at[que] mensuris lib. I, De precio metallorum & monetis lib. III.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 669 Ag84 1556
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agricola, Georg, 1494-1555, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Weights and measures--History--Early works to 1800.
- Weights and measures.
- Metals--Prices--Early works to 1800.
- Metals.
- Money--Early works to 1800.
- Money.
- Metals--Prices.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- [8], 340, [16] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)
- Contained In:
- Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri XII. 31198054676239
- Fingerprint:
- nte- æ:ac noVn fadu (3) 1550 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Basileae : Apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium, MDL [1550]
- Language Note:
- Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek and Hebrew and second index in Greek.
- Notes:
- Printers' names from colophon on leaf F8r, which reads: Basileae apud Hier. Frobenium et Nic. Episcopium Anno M. D. L. Mense Martio.
- Signatures: *⁴ a-p⁶ q⁸ r-z⁶ A-D⁶ E-F⁸ (leaves q8 and x6 blanks).
- Errors in pagination: pages 38, 185 and 188 numbered 48, 187 and 190, respectively.
- Woodcut printer's devices (title vignette and on leaf F8v) and initials.
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Smith copy imperfect: leaf F8 wanting.
- Smith copy bound with: Agricola, Georg. Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri XII. Basileae : Apud Hieron. Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium, MDLVI [1556].
- Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1928.
- Smith copy has exhibition label and typescript description of this copy laid in.
- Smith copy: portion of blank leaf q6 excised and replaced with a blank leaf.
- Cited in:
- VD 16 A 918
- Adams A-344
- OCLC:
- 16801500
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