Record ID | cp012740 |
Voet reference number | 2086 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | |
Author | Joannes Baptista PORTA |
Title page transcription | [Within woodcut-frame:] MAGIÆ NA- ‖ TVRALIS, ‖ SIVE ‖ DE MIRACVLIS ‖ RERVM NATVRALIVM ‖ LIBRI IIII. ‖ IO. BAPTISTA POR- ‖ TA NEAPOLITANO ‖ AVCTORE. ‖ ANTVERPIAE, ‖ EX OFFICINA CHRISTO- ‖ PHORI PLANTINI: ‖ - ‖ M.D.LXI. ‖ PRIVILEGIO REGIS. |
Collation | 8⁰ [124]: ¶⁸, A-R⁸; folios [1r-8v], 1r-135v, [136r-v] (Errors: 28, 43, 57 not numbered) |
Fingerprint | 156108 - # a1 q2 t:$Ne : # a2 A4 niosu - # b1 A m : # b2 R4 s$ma |
Number of sheets | |
Pages | [1r]: Title [1v]: Privilege (Brussels, 25 October 1559, signed by Ph. de Lens) [2r-v]: Philippo regi…Ioan. Baptista Porta Neapolitanus S.D [3r-4v]: Praefatio auctoris ad lectores (italic type) [5r-8v]: Index 1r-135r: Text (italic type, parts in roman type) 135v: Haec, quod alioqui pagina vacasset, addidimus ex Pictorio [136r-v]: Blank |
Edition information | |
Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 640University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamKBR Royal Library of BelgiumBritish Library London |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 28 (1561, no. 10)Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 4042 |
Online bibliographical references | STCV c:stcv:12920213 |
Note 1 | Textual reprint of the preceding editions. |
Note 2 | On 22 March 1561 were shipped to Martin le Jeune, Paris, 25 'Magiae Naturalis 8⁰ Plantin 1561' (Arch. 36, folio 3v). Very likely the 25 copies supplied to Lucas Brayer, Paris, 5 July 1561 (Arch. 36, folio 10r) and the 200 copies shipped to the Frankfurt Fairs, 23 August 1561 (Ibidem, folio 11v) also belonged to this edition. |
Note 3 | Not listed in M 296. |
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