Mythographi Latini., C. Jul. Hyginus. Fab Planciades Fulgentius. Lactantius Placidus. Albricus philosophus. Thomas Munckerus omnes ex libris MSS. partim, partim conjecturis verisimilibus emendavit, & commentariis perpetuis, qui instar bibliothecae historiae fabularis esse possint, instrxit. Praemissa est dissertatio de auctore, stylo, & aetate mythologiae, quae C. Jul. Hygini Aug. Liberti nomen praefert

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Mythographi Latini., C. Jul. Hyginus. Fab Planciades Fulgentius. Lactantius Placidus. Albricus philosophus. Thomas Munckerus omnes ex libris MSS. partim, partim conjecturis verisimilibus emendavit, & commentariis perpetuis, qui instar bibliothecae historiae fabularis esse possint, instrxit. Praemissa est dissertatio de auctore, stylo, & aetate mythologiae, quae C. Jul. Hygini Aug. Liberti nomen praefert

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C. Jul. Hyginus. Fab Planciades Fulgentius. Lactantius Placidus. Albricus philosophus. Thomas Munckerus omnes ex libris MSS. partim, partim conjecturis verisimilibus emendavit, & commentariis perpetuis, qui instar bibliothecae historiae fabularis esse possint, instrxit. Praemissa est dissertatio de auctore, stylo, & aetate mythologiae, quae C. Jul. Hygini Aug. Liberti nomen praefert

Instantiates

• Mythographi Latini.

Publication

• Amstelodami, ex Officina viduae Joannis à Someren, A.C. MDCLXXXI. 1681

Note

• Signatures: *-***8 ****4 A-Ll8 Mm2 ; 2*-**8 2A-Y8 2Z2
• Volume 1 with an additional preliminary engraved illustrated half-title page
• Title-page vignette on both letterpress title-pages
• Volume 1 with a portrait of Thomas Munckerus on *3 recto
• Includes indexes
• "C. Jul. Hygini Poeticon astronomicon": volume [1] pages [339]-487, [1]; includes 43 engraved illustrations of constellations in the text, derived from engravings by Jacob de Gheyn that were originally published in Aratus Solensis, Hug Grotii Syntagma Arateorum, Leiden, 1600
• Volume 2 -- "Mythographorum Latinorum tomus alter" with separate title-page, pagination and register, begins 2*1 recto

Dimensions

8° (20 cm)

Extent

2 parts in 1 ([56], 487, [61] ;[32], 330, [26] pages)

Other physical details

illustrations, portraits

Ownership

• From the Liverpool Royal Institution, with 1894 presentation bookplate designed by Robert Anning Bell to mark the LRI Library's transfer to University College, Liverpool on front paste-down.
• Inscription on front free endpaper "Ex libris Benjn Gibson Romae".

Record ID

b1496827