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Title

C. Ivlii Solini Polyhistor, rervm toto orbe memorabilivm thesaurus locupletissimus. Hvic ob argvmenti similitvdinem Pomponii Melae De sitv orbis libros tres, fide diligentiaqve summa denuò iam recognitos, adiunximus. His accesserunt præter priora scholia & tabulas geographicas permultas, Petri quoq[ue] Olivarii Valentini, uiri in geographia excellenter docti, annotationes, quibus & loci non pauci, à plerisq[ue] parum hactentus intellecti, dilucidè illustrantur, & uetustis locorum appellationibus recentiora sigillatim nomina subijciuntur [sic]. Cum gemino indice, quorum alter suprares alias memorabiles, locorum ac regionum omnium, marium ac sinuum nomina, alter uerò recentiores eorundem appellationes complectitur.

Author

Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?

Publication

Basileæ, apvd Mich[elem] Isingrinivm, 1543.

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Additional Authors

• Mela, Pomponius
• Camers, Joannes, 1447-1546.
• Oliver, Pedro Juan, active 16th century

Description

[1] p. ℓ., [18], 230 p., [1] ℓ. illus. (maps, plan) 2 maps (1 double, 1 fold.); 31 cm.

Subject

• Geography, Ancient

Note

• Signatures: a⁶, B⁴, a-z⁴, Aa-Ff⁴.
• Pages 175 and 215 numbered 157 and 189 respectively.
• Printer's mark (Heitz, Basel, 147) on t.-p. and on leaf at end.
• The scholia are in italic type; initials.
• First edition printed in Venice in 1473.
• "Solini vita per Ioannem Camertem ædita": sig. a².
• "Pomponii Melae Cosmograpgi [sic] De orbis sitv liber primvs[-tertius]": p. 147-229.
• On the map facing p. 140 America is designated as "Terra incognita."
• Harisse BAV add. 143.

Call Number

*KB+ (Parsons) (Vegetius Renatus, F. Fl. Vegetii Renati Viri illu[s]tris de re Militari libri quatuor)

OCLC

11494920

Author

Solinus, C. Julius, active 3rd century?

Title

C. Ivlii Solini Polyhistor, rervm toto orbe memorabilivm thesaurus locupletissimus. Hvic ob argvmenti similitvdinem Pomponii Melae De sitv orbis libros tres, fide diligentiaqve summa denuò iam recognitos, adiunximus. His accesserunt præter priora scholia & tabulas geographicas permultas, Petri quoq[ue] Olivarii Valentini, uiri in geographia excellenter docti, annotationes, quibus & loci non pauci, à plerisq[ue] parum hactentus intellecti, dilucidè illustrantur, & uetustis locorum appellationibus recentiora sigillatim nomina subijciuntur [sic]. Cum gemino indice, quorum alter suprares alias memorabiles, locorum ac regionum omnium, marium ac sinuum nomina, alter uerò recentiores eorundem appellationes complectitur.

Imprint

Basileæ, apvd Mich[elem] Isingrinivm, 1543.

Local Note

Parsons Collection.

Bound with: Vegetius Renatus, Flavius. Fl. Vegetii Renati Viri...libri quatuor. Lutetiae, 1532.

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Added Author

Mela, Pomponius. De chorographia.

Camers, Joannes, 1447-1546.

Oliver, Pedro Juan, active 16th century.

Research Call Number

*KB+ (Parsons) (Vegetius Renatus, F. Fl. Vegetii Renati Viri illu[s]tris de re Militari libri quatuor)