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The Resource [Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]

[Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]

Label
[Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]
Title
[Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]
Title variation
Historia plantarum
Creator
Contributor
Printer
Translator
Subject
Genre
Language
  • lat
  • grc
  • lat
Member of
Cataloging source
RQE
Citation location within source
  • VI, p. 894 (IC. 28409)
  • T-108
  • T-156
  • T-155
  • 958.1
Citation source
  • BM 15th cent.
  • BN cat. des incun.
  • BSB-Ink.
  • Goff
  • Klebs
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Theophrastus
Index
no index present
Language note
Translated from the Greek into Latin by Theodōros Gazēs
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • d. 1494
  • ca. 1400-ca. 1475
  • fl. 1478-1483
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Theophrastus
  • Merula, Giorgio
  • Gazēs, Theodōros
  • Confalonieri, Bartolomeo
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Botany
  • Botany
  • Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley), 1859-1917 [Donor] (CPP)
  • Stockton-Hough Library [Collection] (CPP)
  • Stockton-Hough Library [Bookplate] (CPP)
  • Hough, John Stockton, 1845-1900 [Former Owner] (CPP)
Label
[Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Contains the text of Inquiry into plants (leaves A2v-K6) and De causis plantarum (leaves a1-k6)
  • Edited, with a table (leaves L1-6), by Georgio Merula
  • Title supplied by cataloger
  • Caption title on leaf A4v: Theophrasti de historia plantarum liber primus per Theodorum Gazam in Latinum ex Craeco[!] sermone versus
  • Caption title on leaf a1r: Theophrasti de causis planta[rum] liber. I
  • Imprint from Goff
  • Colophon on leaf k6 reads: Theophrasti de causis plantarum liber sextus et ultimus explicit. Impressum Tarvisii per Bartholomaeum Confalonerium de Salodio. anno domini. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. die xx. Februari
  • Signatures: A-H€ I-L¡, a€ b¡ c-h€ i-k¡ (A1 blank)
  • Chancery folio; 41 lines; area of text: 228 x 140 mm. With initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters; catchwords in center and at end of each gathering; and printed marginalia in De causis plantarum; without foliation. Table in 2 columns
Control code
000091460
Dimensions
31 cm. (fol.).
Extent
[156] leaves (the first blank)
Note
  • Imperfect: Leaves b1-3 (portions of De causis plantarum Liber I) wanting. Outer margins heavily damp- and mold-stained. Holes in outer margins of last gathering. Outer 45 mm. of first leaf (blank) removed. Blank leaf inserted after first leaf. Outer margin of second leaf mended with paper.
  • Not rubricated.
  • Presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by John K. Mitchell, M.D., prior to 17 July 1901; with the bookplate of the J. Stockton-Hough Library.
  • Bound in half modern vellum over marbled paper boards, with gold-stamped red Morocco spine label.
  • Leaf size: 309 x 206 mm.
  • Photostat NOT available.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 91460
  • 91509
  • (OCoLC)ocm15234548
Label
[Historia plantarum ; De causis plantarum]
Publication
Note
  • Contains the text of Inquiry into plants (leaves A2v-K6) and De causis plantarum (leaves a1-k6)
  • Edited, with a table (leaves L1-6), by Georgio Merula
  • Title supplied by cataloger
  • Caption title on leaf A4v: Theophrasti de historia plantarum liber primus per Theodorum Gazam in Latinum ex Craeco[!] sermone versus
  • Caption title on leaf a1r: Theophrasti de causis planta[rum] liber. I
  • Imprint from Goff
  • Colophon on leaf k6 reads: Theophrasti de causis plantarum liber sextus et ultimus explicit. Impressum Tarvisii per Bartholomaeum Confalonerium de Salodio. anno domini. M.CCCC.LXXXIII. die xx. Februari
  • Signatures: A-H€ I-L¡, a€ b¡ c-h€ i-k¡ (A1 blank)
  • Chancery folio; 41 lines; area of text: 228 x 140 mm. With initial spaces, mostly with guide-letters; catchwords in center and at end of each gathering; and printed marginalia in De causis plantarum; without foliation. Table in 2 columns
Control code
000091460
Dimensions
31 cm. (fol.).
Extent
[156] leaves (the first blank)
Note
  • Imperfect: Leaves b1-3 (portions of De causis plantarum Liber I) wanting. Outer margins heavily damp- and mold-stained. Holes in outer margins of last gathering. Outer 45 mm. of first leaf (blank) removed. Blank leaf inserted after first leaf. Outer margin of second leaf mended with paper.
  • Not rubricated.
  • Presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by John K. Mitchell, M.D., prior to 17 July 1901; with the bookplate of the J. Stockton-Hough Library.
  • Bound in half modern vellum over marbled paper boards, with gold-stamped red Morocco spine label.
  • Leaf size: 309 x 206 mm.
  • Photostat NOT available.
System control number
  • (Sirsi) 91460
  • 91509
  • (OCoLC)ocm15234548

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