Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon :. quæ præter naturæ ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in superioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad hæc nostra tempora, acciderunt. Quod portentorum genus non temerè euenire solet, sed humano generi exhibitum, seueritatem iramq́[ue] Dei aduersus scelera, atq[ue] magnas in mundo uicissitudines portendit. /. Partim ex probatis fideq́[ue] dignis authoribus Gr[a]ecis, atque Latinis: partim etiam ex multorum annorum propria obseruatione, summa fide, studio ac sedulitate, adiectis etiam rerum omnium ueris imaginibus conscriptum per Conradum Lycosthenem Rubeaquensem.
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561)
Category
Books
Date
1557
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3259836
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], 670, [2] p. :. ill., maps (woodcuts) ;. fol. Water stained, with minor repairs at head of spine and throughout. Pencil marks on front pastedown and flyleaf. The following pages are misnumbered: page 14 reads 8; 30 reads 22; 35 reads 31; 77 reads 73. Inserted between front pastedown and flyleaf, 17 x 8 cm piece of paper with 'Sciapod' handwritten and underlined in blue ink on one side. Inserted between pages 50 and 51: 22 x 14 cm leaf from a bookseller's catalogue (probably Bonham's, 139A New Bond Street London) with printed and illustrated description of book and price £325; also 12 x 13 cm piece leaf from a bookseller's catalogue (E. P. Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd.) with printed description of book and price $925. Provenance: in pencil on front pastedown, inscription: 'Basle. 1557. See colophon. / Oenipoti is Innsbruck, Tyrol, / see inscription on title. H. G. 1936.' [H. G.: Hugh Gatty (1907-48), Fellow and Librarian of St John’s College, Cambridge]. In pencil on front flyleaf recto, inscription: 'R. W. Ketton-Cremer / This book came from the Library of my friend Hugh Gatty, Fellow and Librarian of St. John's College, Cambridge' [Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, 1906-1969]. In ink at head of title page, inscription: 'In usum Collegii Societatis IESV Oenipoti 1563.' [For the use of the Collegium Societatis Iesu Oenipontanum (Jesuit College in Innsbruck, Austria), often spelled Oenipoti in Latin, which was founded in 1561–1562 by Peter Canisius at the request of Emperor Ferdinand I]. In pencil on back pastedown, inscription: A J. / A. Reese TX. Go [?]'. Binding: sixteenth-century full pigskin over tapered wooden boards, blind decorative rolls and panels, sewn onto four raised bands, remnants of two metal clasps on board edges.
Makers and roles
Konrad Lykosthenes (1518-1561)