Marcelli Palingenii ... Zodiacus Vitae, hoc est, de hominis uita, studio, ac moribus optimè instituendis libri du[od]ecim ... Opus ... nunc tertio ... excusum. Cui ... accessére Dominici Mancini, Antonij Mācinelle, & veteris cuiusdam sapientis de Quatuor Virtutibus Libelli singuli, etc. /
Palingenius, Marcellus,pseud. [i.e. Pietro Angelo Manzolli.]
Heroldt, Johann.
Moncreiff, William,18th century,former owner.StEdNL
Overton, Stavely,active 1603,former owner.StEdNL
Danetus, Christopher16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,former owner.StEdNL
Basileae : R. Winter,
1543.
Book label of William Moncreiff on the front pastedown. Manuscript inscription at the head of the first original flyleaf "Stavely Overton his Book 1603". Manuscript inscription in twentieth-century pencil on the verso of the next flyleaf "Donation" and stamp "5 Oct 1949". Manuscript inscription at the head of the title page "Christoferus Danetus  p[?] xvi" in a 16th-century hand. Stamps on the verso of the title page of the "Society of Antiquaries of Scotland". Occasional contemporary marginalia, including a drawing on page 120. Manuscript inscriptions on the final page of text and end the blank leaf after that "Homo homini deus homo homini lupus Non possam simull sorbere et flare Crassa satis conveniunt crassis Concoloribus plumis semper una volitavit aves// Similes habent labra lactucas; Nill perpetuil sua Cacus in lusco conuitia iacit; Non dia possimus Non omnibus dormio-- Ut vivas, comede, at non vivas propter aedendum" and "I pray yf it be possible that yow will com to my da'ters house upo[n] men[?] Day next that he might be made acquainted with the matter of higge[?], for I me[n?] to deale in it this Tearme[?], and in any case yow must provie[?] be to London by on Invyndaye[?] next w[it]h the boat, and I will meate yow at London because I would be be gin it as soune as yt were possible. and bringe w[i]th yow all that yow have to share[?]".