Gallorum insubrum antiquae sedes.

Description

Main Author

Castiglione, Bonaventura, 1487-1555.

Related Names

Casteliono, Giovanni Antonio, printer.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Mediolani : Ioannes Antonius Castillioneus Mediolani excudebat, VII idib. April. MDXXXXI [1541 April 7]

Subjects

Inscriptions, Latin.
Antiquities.
Type and type-founding > Type and type-founding / Chancery type > Type and type-founding / Chancery type / Specimens.
Inscriptions, Latin > Inscriptions, Latin / Italy > Inscriptions, Latin / Italy / Lombardy > Inscriptions, Latin / Italy / Lombardy / Early works to 1800.
Italy > Italy / Lombardy.
France.
Lombardy (Italy) > Lombardy (Italy) / Antiquities > Lombardy (Italy) / Antiquities / Early works to 1800.
France > France / History > France / History / Medieval period, 987-1515 > France / History / Medieval period, 987-1515 / Early works to 1800.
France > France / History > France / History / To 987 > France / History / To 987 / Early works to 1800.
Specimens.
History.
Early works.

Note

Errata on leaf P4r.
Includes index.
Errors in pagination: 13-14 not numbered, 70-79 omitted in numbering.
Historiated initial and white-on-black floral initials in three sizes; printer's device on verso of final leaf.
Signatures: A⁸ B-P⁴.
First use of Castiglione's vertical italic font based on Arrighi's italic chancery types. Inserted in text are Latin inscriptions set in Roman capitals of various sizes. Where the original inscription was damaged, the text is reconstructed by using xylographic letters shaded with white lines, and by pieces of wood filling out spaces for letters destroyed. Marginalia in Roman.
Printer from colophon.
Author's name from caption title (page 5).
First edition.

Physical Description

133 [i.e. 123], [5] pages ; 22 cm (4to)

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