Exastichon ieron, sive jconum quarundam extranearum (numero 258) explicatio breviuscula & clara. : Apprimè epheborum aliquot praenobilium in usum exculta, quâ ad SS. Scripturas alliciantur. Quibus singulis suum accessit symbolum, cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex authoribus Graecis & Latinis depromptâ. Being an epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old & Nevv Testament after each sculpture, or cut.
1677
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Exastichon ieron, sive jconum quarundam extranearum (numero 258) explicatio breviuscula & clara. : Apprimè epheborum aliquot praenobilium in usum exculta, quâ ad SS. Scripturas alliciantur. Quibus singulis suum accessit symbolum, cum sententiolâ concinnâ ex authoribus Graecis & Latinis depromptâ. Being an epigrammatical explanation of the most remarkable stories throughout the Old & Nevv Testament after each sculpture, or cut.
Created/published
[Oxford] : Dat. Cal. Jan. anno salutis M.D.C.LXXVII. Oxford, printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Uuiversity [sic], [1677]
Description
[6], 173, [2], 85, [2] leaves., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685, author.
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650.
Bertie family library, former owner.
Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650.
Bertie family library, former owner.
Note
"Epistle to the reader" is signed: Robert Whitehall.
Only 12 copies published.
Signatures: [ ]², A², [2nd][ ]², [3rd][ ]².
With illustrations of Matthaeus Merian inlaid or pasted on each page.
First 2 words of title transliterated from Greek.
Imprimatur on leaf pi1v: Imprimatur Hen. Clerk, Vice-Canc. Oxon.
With additional engraved title page (plate): Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti.
Divisional title page after l. 173: Thesaurus historiarum Novi Testamenti.
Last leaf is blank.
Only 12 copies published.
Signatures: [ ]², A², [2nd][ ]², [3rd][ ]².
With illustrations of Matthaeus Merian inlaid or pasted on each page.
First 2 words of title transliterated from Greek.
Imprimatur on leaf pi1v: Imprimatur Hen. Clerk, Vice-Canc. Oxon.
With additional engraved title page (plate): Historiae Sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti.
Divisional title page after l. 173: Thesaurus historiarum Novi Testamenti.
Last leaf is blank.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1990-1991. Five Years of Acquisitions (catalog p. 53)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 9:8)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 9:8)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), W1872
Madan, F. Oxford books, III, 3130*
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R21460
Madan, F. Oxford books, III, 3130*
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R21460
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Fore-edge paintings (Binding)
Imprimaturs.
Annotations.
Illustrations (layout features)
Fore-edge paintings (Binding)
Imprimaturs.
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Oxford.
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W1872
Folger-specific note
226239. Black goatskin gilt-tooled, with fore-edge painting under gold of the arms of Oxford University; (-see Bearman, Frederick A., Nati H. Krivatsky, J. Franklin Mowery. "Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library," 9:8). MS. notes and markings. Plates 13, 19, 22, 64, 76, and 142 are pasted on. Lacking divisional title page. Bd.w. tp of "The New Testament. At the Theater in Oxford A⁰: 1675". Provenance: inscribed: "Charles Bertie his Book"; "G. H. Priest: Given me by / The Honble Charles Bertie"; anonymous engraved armorial bookplate (motto "virtus ariete fortior"): probably a Bertie, Earl of Abingdon; purchased from B. Quaritch Ltd., London, in 1985; Folger gift of his family in memory of R. Porter Smith (1922-1991)