Research Catalog

Title

Guidonis Pancirolli Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum pars prior[-secunda] / commentarijs illustrata, et locis propè innumeris postremum aucta, ab Henrico Salmuth, Ambergensium Sijndico emerito.

Author

Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599.

Publication

Francofurti : Sumptibus Godefridi Schonwetteri viduae et haered., 1660.

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Additional Authors

• Salmuth, Heinrich.
• Furck, Sebastian, approximately 1600-1655.
• Witwe und Erben von Johann Gottfried Schönwetter. pbl

Description

2 v. in 1 ([8], 349, [23]; 313, [19] p.); 22 cm (4to)

Alternative Title

• Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum pars prior
• Nova reperta, sive, Rerum memorabilium recens inventarum & veteribus planè incognitarum ... liber secundus.

Subjects

• Paper > Early works to 1800
• Papyrus (Writing material) > Early works to 1800
• Inventions > History > Early works to 1800
• Guaiac > Early works to 1800
• Writing materials and instruments > Early works to 1800
• Lost arts > Early works to 1800

Note

• Engraved t.p.
• Includes the 2nd part (313, [19] p.) with caption title only: Nova reperta, sive, Rerum memorabilium recens inventarum, & veteribus planè incognitarum, Guidonis Pancirolli j.c. liber secundus.
• Panciroli's work, composed in Italian and initially circulated in ms. copies only, was first published in this unauthorized Latin translation, Amberg, 1599-1602, under title: Rerum memorabilium, iam olim deperditarum: & contra recens atque ingeniose inuentarum: libri duo; condemned and prohibited by the Inquisition because of Salmuth's commentary, 1603-1605. The first Italian ed. (in part a retranslation from the Latin) was published in Venice, 1612, under title: Raccolta breue d'alcune cose piu segnalate c'hebbero gli antichi, e d'alcune altre trouate da moderni; with commentary by F. Gualtieri. Cf. note by A. Zeno in Biblioteca dell'eloquenza italiana di monsignore Giusto Fontanini. 1804. v. 2, p. 276-277.
• Four other eds. dated 1660 are known in which the date on t.p. is rendered in Roman numerals, with variations in publisher's name. Cf. VD 17.
• Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-2Z⁴ 3A²; a-2s⁴ 2t². Leaf 2t2 blank.
• Copy 2 in *KB 1660 and Schlosser Coll. copy lack leaf 2t2, blank.
• Duveen gives collation of pt. 1 as "4 leaves ... 350 pp., 19 leaves."
• In direction line, v. 2: Panciroll. lib. 2.
• Illustrations: 1 print (t.p.) : etching ; full-page. Signed: Sebastian Furck fecit. Includes vignette of printing office; for discussion, cf. Bigmore & Wyman, II, p. 112-113.
• Woodcut and type flower head- and tailpieces; floriated initials.
• "De papyro": v. 1, p. 126; "De charta": v. 2, p. 250-262.
• "Guaiacum": v. 2, p. 39-43.
• Side notes.
• Includes indexes.

Indexed In (note)

• VD 17 (WWW)
• Brunet
• Sabin
• Duveen, D.I. Bib. alchemica et chemica
• Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking

Additional Formats (note)

• Electronic facsims. of t.p., leaf [dagger]2r, leaf A1r and leaf a1r available (FB Gotha copy) via VD 17 Web site.

Provenance (note)

• Gift of David Shulman, Nov. 10, 1994. Unidentified ownership stamp on t.p.
• Ioh. Sextius comp. Wranl ano. 1677 (inscription); J. Siparin (autograph on t.p.).

Binding (note)

• Contemporary vellum.

Call Number

*KB 1660 (Panciroli, G. Guidonis Pancirolli Rerum)

LCCN

26019493

OCLC

NYPG90-B38059

Author

Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599.

Title

Guidonis Pancirolli Rerum memorabilium sive deperditarum pars prior[-secunda] / commentarijs illustrata, et locis propè innumeris postremum aucta, ab Henrico Salmuth, Ambergensium Sijndico emerito.

Imprint

Francofurti : Sumptibus Godefridi Schonwetteri viduae et haered., 1660.

Indexed In:

VD 17 (WWW) 39:160841F

Brunet, IV, 339

Sabin 58412

Duveen, D.I. Bib. alchemica et chemica, p. 447

Hunter, D. Literature of papermaking, p. 18

Additional Formats

Electronic facsims. of t.p., leaf [dagger]2r, leaf A1r and leaf a1r available (FB Gotha copy) via VD 17 Web site.

Binding

Contemporary vellum. NN

Provenance

*KB 1660 c. 2: Gift of David Shulman, Nov. 10, 1994. Unidentified ownership stamp on t.p.

Schlosser Coll. copy: Ioh. Sextius comp. Wranl ano. 1677 (inscription); J. Siparin (autograph on t.p.).

Local Note

Schlosser Coll. copy: Ms. marginalia.

Schlosser Coll. copy slightly wormed, with minute loss of text.

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Local Subject

Papyrus (Writing material) -- Early works to 1800.

Added Author

Salmuth, Heinrich.

Furck, Sebastian, approximately 1600-1655. Etcher

Witwe und Erben von Johann Gottfried Schönwetter. Publisher

Shulman, David, 1912-2004. Donor

Added Title

Nova reperta, sive, Rerum memorabilium recens inventarum & veteribus planè incognitarum ... liber secundus.

Research Call Number

*KB 1660 (Panciroli, G. Guidonis Pancirolli Rerum)

Schlosser 590