De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Utopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festiuus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] uiri Thomae Mori inclytae ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & uicecomitis : Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimique viri Thomae Mori, plera[que] è Græcis uersa : Epigrammata Des. Erasmi Roterodami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, Author.

Contributor:

Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527, printer.

Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, illustrator, designer.

Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540, Contributor.

Geldenhauer, Gerard, 1482-1542, Contributor.

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560, Contributor.

Standardized Title:

Utopia

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Utopias--Early works to 1800.

Utopias.

Penn Provenance:

Assendelft, Gerard van (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

355 [that is 359] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De optimo reip. statv deqve noua insula Vtopia libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festiuus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] uiri Thomae Mori inclytae ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & vicecomitis

De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] viri Thomae Mori inclytae civitatis Londinensis civis & vicecomitis

Fingerprint:

i-tu e.s) a.s. hopr (3) 1518 (R)

Place of Publication:

Basileae : Apud Io. Frobenium, mense Martio an. MDXVIII [March 1518]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon. Title leaf has: Apud inclytam Basileam.

Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of the first part, the Utopia, being dated March, 1518. The Epigrammata of More and Erasmus also have special title leaves.

Signatures: a-s⁴ t-u⁶ x-z⁴ A-I⁴ K⁶ L-T⁴ V⁶.

Titles and some text in woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, printer's devices, and initials.

Title borders and the illustrations on page [12] and page [25] are from designs by Hans Holbein.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Antiquariat Inlibris Gilhofer.

Kislak Center copy has dated 17th-century autograph ("Gherard d'Assendelft. 1603.") at head of title leaf.

Cited in:

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, M 1756

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), M 6299

Gibson, R.W. St. Thomas More, 3

Bezzel, I. Erasmusdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, 912

OCLC:

27836473