De furtiuis literarum notis vulgo. de ziferis libri IIII. Ioan. Baptista Porta Neapolitano autore.
1591
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Title
De furtiuis literarum notis vulgo. de ziferis libri IIII. Ioan. Baptista Porta Neapolitano autore.
Created/published
[London] : Cum priuilegio Londini, apud Iohannem Wolphium, 1591.
Description
[20], 228 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; (4to)
Associated name
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615, author.
Castelvetro, Giacomo, 1546-1616?
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Castelvetro, Giacomo, 1546-1616?
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
Editor's dedication to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, signed: Iacobus Casteluitrius.
Includes three volvelles, the moving parts of which were printed together on a separate quarter-sheet.
Running title reads: De fur. lit. not. ..
Another state (STC 20118a) has false imprint "Neapoli, apud Ioa. Mariam Scotum. MDLXIII" and a different dedication to Joannes Sotus.
Signatures: [cross]⁶ *⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E⁶.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
Entered 2 November 1590.
Includes three volvelles, the moving parts of which were printed together on a separate quarter-sheet.
Running title reads: De fur. lit. not. ..
Another state (STC 20118a) has false imprint "Neapoli, apud Ioa. Mariam Scotum. MDLXIII" and a different dedication to Joannes Sotus.
Signatures: [cross]⁶ *⁴ A-2D⁴ 2E⁶.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
Entered 2 November 1590.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Copy 1. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Decoding the Renaissance. November 11, 2014 to February 26, 2015. Opening: pp.90-91
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 20118
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101179
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101179
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20118 copy 1
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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STC 20118 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs1137. Stiff board vellum binding. Plate containing moving parts to volvelles bound after I4. Provenance: booklabel of Charles Lyell; W.M. Rossetti copy
Call number
STC 20118 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Sheep binding; printer's waste as paste-downs with running titles "Sixe principles of Christian religion". 2E3-4 transposed and misbound after 3; folded plate of moving parts to volvelles bound after K4. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: C. Killigrew; W.T. Smedley copy