De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis libri duo: in quibus ex re natura monstrorum historiae, caussae, generationes, & differentiae plurimae a sapientibus intactae, cum generatim & in plantarum, & belluarum genere, tum seorsum in humana specie tractantur. Multis illustrium autorum locis difficillimis explanatis de masculo parturiente, de feminis in viros mutatis, de hermaphroditorum natura, de dissimilium specierum Venere prolifica, de castratorum fecunditate, de puero lapidescente, de anomantis aurea parte, alijsque admirabilibus. Autor Fortunius Licetus Genuensis in Pata. Lyceo physiologus ordinarius eminentissimo principi Io: Francisco Guidio Cardinali a Balneo D.D.D.
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657)
Category
Books
Date
1634
Materials
Place of origin
Padua
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3007282
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 262, [26] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 4to. Running number: 5781. Provenance: manuscript number in seventeenth-century hand on rear pastedown: "3650". Binding: seventeenth-century full plain vellum over boards; yapp fore-edges; remnants of brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine; manuscript title (faded) at head of spine. Blue sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657) Giambattista Bissoni (1576-1636), artist