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Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regularis Orbis breuiarium fide, compendio, ordineq[ue] captu ac memoratu facillimum foelix et gratus legito   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Lilio, Zaccaria, -between 1501 and 1506
Title
Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regularis Orbis breuiarium fide, compendio, ordineq[ue] captu ac memoratu facillimum foelix et gratus legito
Publisher
[Florence, Italy] : [Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini]
Description
[130] leaves : 21 cm (4to)
A compendium of geographical information taken from a large number of classical sources, arranged alphabetically by place, with a summary of names ("Vrbes celebriores quae in hoc libro continentur") on leaves r4r-r6v. The author was the first to condense the writings of the ancient and medieval geographers into one work
Title from a3 verso
Title and text preceded by five pages containing a dedicatory letter from the author to Matthaeus Bossus and the reply of Bossus to the author
Imprint dervied from colophon (r3 verso): Impressit Florenti[ae] Antonius Miscominus Anno Salutis .M.CCCCLXXXXIII. Nonis Iuniis. Miscomini's woodcut device found on leaf r6v in some copies
Collation: 4to: a⁴ b-q⁸ r⁶ [$4 (-a1,2, r4) signed]; 130 leaves, unnumbered.
Chancery quarto; double columns on r4 recto-r6 verso, b5 recto: single column, 26 lines, with first letter of paragraph set out and with printed marginalia, 143 x 84 (88 including first letter in margin; 112 including both first letter in margin and marginalia); types: 112R; initial spaces with guide letters
With a T-O map (circle divided by a T into the three continents, with Asia in the top hemisphere), on leaf a4v, and above it a diagram of the six zones of the world, both consisting of type, printed in black, divided and framed within a composition of rules printed in red; on leaf q5r is a similarly composed diagram of the climatic zones, with the type set vertically reading up. See T. Campbell, The earliest printed maps, 1472-1500, no. 84 (page 112), describing the red framing as woodcut, and the map as having "the narrow technical distinction of being the first to be printed in more than one colour."
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.2 without printer's device found in some copies. Leaf dimensions: 200 x 135 mm.
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.2 with bookplate of Marcantonio Borghese on front pastedown ("Ex libris M.A. Principis Burghesii"). BPL embossed and perforation stamps on a1. Early maginal annotations, corrections, etc. Purchased in February, 1901.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.2 bound in floral-pattern paper over pasteboards.

Subjects: Geography, Ancient; Geography -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800; Geography -- Dictionaries -- Latin; Geography -- Early works to 1800; Incunabula -- Specimens; World maps -- Early works to 1800
Language Latin
Publication date 1493
publication_date QS:P577,+1493-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: bplscinc; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Accession number
zachariaeliliivi00lili
Notes No copyright page present.
Authority file  OCLC: 1158556067
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Internet Archive identifier: zachariaeliliivi00lili
https://archive.org/download/zachariaeliliivi00lili/zachariaeliliivi00lili.pdf
  • IA contributor: Boston Public Library

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