Petri Megerlini J.V. & Ph.D. Math. in Acad. Basil. P.P. Theatrum divini regiminis a mundo condito usque ad nostrum seculum, delinatum in tabula mathematico-historica, qua secundum revolutiones conjunctionum & oppositionum magnarum Saturni & Jovis post octo proximè secula redeuntes, historia ecclesiastica & politica per omnes mundi partes omnesq[ue] provincias Europae, in suas periodos & secula accuratè distributa, uno intuitu conspicienda proponitur, cum indice historico-chronologico locupletissimo rerum gestarum annos & scriptores, horumque libros & capita sive sectiones indicante. Adjectus est commentarius chronologicus quo ratio distributionis & calculi in tabula adhibiti redditur, chronologiae capita quaedam controversa illustrantur, ejusque principia & usus in historicis ostenditur, cum cyclis planetarum et eclipsium.
Peter Megerlin (1623-1686)
Category
Books
Date
1683
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3177557
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 354; 121, [3] p., [10] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill., tables ; 4to. Running number: 3650. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Caroli Bernard" [i.e. Charles Bernard (1650-1711), whose library was sold in London, 22 March 1711]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet border; single panel of double blind fillets, with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gilt title label on spine: 'Megerini Index Histor'. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Peter Megerlin (1623-1686), author