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Deorum dearumque capita : ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita
Title
Deorum dearumque capita : ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita / ex museo Abrahami Ortelii.
Publication
Antuerpiae : Philippus Gallaeus excudebat, 1573.
Physical Description
[60] leaves : 54 portraits (engravings) ; 18 cm (4to)
Local Notes
BEIN 2020 732: Presentation inscription from the author to Joannes Castelius. Cancelled autograph on title page. Pencil manuscript notes to binder in Earl of Pembroke's hand requesting covering material "Turkey" and spine title "Ortel Ed. 1a." Signatures B-O signed in manuscript. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together with binder's title: Ortel Ed. 1a. Custom bound for Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke. Spine label with shelfmark: Gb 7.
Notes
Dedication and prefatory epistle by Ortelius.
Printer from colophon.
Engraved title page.
Heads of divinities and personifications engraved by Philippe Galle (see Bibliotheca belgica), each in a roundel with broad border of strapwork and grotesquerie. Within each border are 2 tablets with name of the figure represented and the coin from which it was taken.
Signatures: A⁴ [B-P]⁴.
Variant and related titles
Deorvm dearvmqve capita
Format
Books
Language
Latin
Added to Catalog
January 31, 2020
Bibliography
"Scriptorum veterum ac recentium, qui ex professo deorum gentilium historias vel imagines descripserunt, elenchus"--Leaf A4r.
References
Bibliotheca belgica (1964-1970 edition) , IV, O.206
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, O-325
Short-title catalogue of books printed in the Netherlands and Belgium and of Dutch and Flemish books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 162
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Early works.
Pictorial works.
Binders' instructions (Binding)
Also listed under
Belgium Antwerp.
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