"The Horapollo work is dedicated to Ausburg patrician and banker Marcus Welser (1558-1614) who, the editor [i.e. David Horeschel] tells us, encouraged him in the work and paid for the elegant Greek types in which it (and many other works forming, as it were, a series of publications based on the holdings of the Augsburg library) were printed with the imprint 'ad insigne pinus'. The emblem or device on the title-page, and name with motto 'honos erit huic quoque pomo' (Virgil Eclogue 2, 53) refers to the city's emblem, the pineapple." --Taken from the bookseller's description. IaU Special Collections copy (copy 1) Leaf A1 recto: "several lines in manuscript written in an exotic and secret script (slightly akin to Ethiopic letters), possibly meant to indicate hieroglyphs but in no way resembling them." Possibly made by the previous owner? IaU Privilege statement "Cum priuilegio Caes. perpetuo" precedes date on title page. Signatures:)(⁴ A-2E⁴ 2F². Printer's device on title page, initial. Numerous errors in pagination. Printed marginal notes. Errata on leaf 2F2r. Includes index.
Contents:
(from title page verso) Hieroglyph. Horapollinis libri II, graece -- Horum versio latina Ioan. Merceri -- Observationes Ioan. Merceri -- Notae Davidis Hoeschelij.
Indexed by:
BM STC German, 1455-1600, p. 415 VD 16 H 4847
OCLC:
(OCoLC)7424351
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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