De occultis literarum notis seu Artis animi sensa occulte alijs significandi, aut ab alijs significata expiscandi enodandique libri IIII / Io. Baptista Porta Neapolitano auctore ; explicantur autem inter caetera & veterum quoque scriptorum loca, hac de arte loquentia, indidenq[ue] petita.
1593
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De occultis literarum notis seu Artis animi sensa occulte alijs significandi, aut ab alijs significata expiscandi enodandique libri IIII / Io. Baptista Porta Neapolitano auctore ; explicantur autem inter caetera & veterum quoque scriptorum loca, hac de arte loquentia, indidenq[ue] petita.
Uniform title
De furtivis literarum notis
Created/published
Montisbeligardi : Apud Iacobum Foillet : Expensis Lazari Zetzneri, MDXCIII [1593]
Description
[16], 275 (i.e. 271), [1], 24, [12] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. author.
Foillet, Jacques, active 1579-1619, printer.
Zetzner, Lazarus, -1616, publisher.
Foillet, Jacques, active 1579-1619, printer.
Zetzner, Lazarus, -1616, publisher.
Note
This is an unauthorized edition of De furtivis literarum notis--cf. Galland.
Signatures: ()⁸ a-r⁸ A-B⁸ C².
Pagination errors: p. 44, 58, 62, 63, 64, 193, 225, 226, 270, 271 are misnumbered as 32, 42, 31, 53, 54, 177, 255, 236, 268 and 275 respectively.
Includes 3 unconstructed volvelles (on p. 92, 98, and 103); the completing parts are printed on p. [15].
Title vignette, with motto Scientia immutabilis.
Marginal notes.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Signatures: ()⁸ a-r⁸ A-B⁸ C².
Pagination errors: p. 44, 58, 62, 63, 64, 193, 225, 226, 270, 271 are misnumbered as 32, 42, 31, 53, 54, 177, 255, 236, 268 and 275 respectively.
Includes 3 unconstructed volvelles (on p. 92, 98, and 103); the completing parts are printed on p. [15].
Title vignette, with motto Scientia immutabilis.
Marginal notes.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2015. Decoding the Renaissance. November 11, 2014 to February 26, 2015. Open to p. 134.
Cited/described in
Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, 8856
Galland, J.S. Bibliography of Cryptology, 147
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P1928
BN v. 141, p. 145
Galland, J.S. Bibliography of Cryptology, 147
Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, P1928
BN v. 141, p. 145
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Genre/form
Volvelles.
Place of creation/publication
France -- Montbéliard.
Item Details
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173- 568.1q
Folger-specific note
In reinforced vellum; manuscript spine title; edges stained green. Bound with: Stracca, Benvenuto. De proxenetis et proxeneticis. Francoforti : Ex officina typographica Nicolai Bassaei, 1593 -- Breul, Heinrich. De renunciandi recepto more modoque. Francoforti : Ex officina typographica Nicolai Bassaei, 1593.
Folger accession
173568