Genealogie Johannis Boccacij cum micantissimis arborum efligiationibus cumsqvm gentilis dei progenem / non tam aperte q summatim declarantibus cumq preęfoecunda oīm que in hoc libro sunt ad finē tabula
By: Eiusdēq de mōtib, & siluis de fōtib. Iacubus & fluminib. Ac etiā de stagnis & plaudib. nec non & de marib. seu diuersis maris nominib. libri ...
Publisher: Prostant in vico Diui Iacobi sub intersignijs triū coronarū coloniensiū atqvm Diui Martini
Published: 1511
Place of publication: Parrhisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Medieval Geography
Notes: On verso of t.-p.: Iohannes Kierherus Slettsiattinus: Gotfrido Hitorpio Agrippinensi Bibliopole ... Salutem ... Lutecia pridie kal.' Iunias anno ... Millesimo quingentesimo vndecimo.

Colophon: Parrhisiis excusum est stannets hoc opus notalis opera et expensis Dionisii roce Lodonici hornken & sociorum vicesima secunda di Agusti anno domini millesimo quingentesimo vn decimo.

Title in red and black. Hornken's device on t.-p. (Renouard no. 455) Initials.

Publisher's device (Roce) on t.-p.

Errors in foliation.

Formerly owned by Johannes Rogge, rector of Leipzig University from 1515, with Rogge's ownership inscription on front pastedown, containing a detailed record of the book's purchase, contents, costs of rubrication, and binding.  Early inscription on front pastedown in multiple hands; early collation notes and drawing of a watermark(Bull's Head with Caduceus) on back pastedown.

[Franco-German humanist edition].

Title printed in red and black with large printer's device (cf. Renouard, 455). Roman type; table in three columns, De Montibus in two columns; printed marginalia, with some ms. marginalia.

Includes thirteen full-page genealogical woodcuts, large woodcut and metalcut initials, smaller metalcut initials and initial spaces with guide letters; rubricated in red and blue throughout.

The thirteen genealogical woodcuts are at the head of each book, each containing a small figurative portrait of the founder of the mythological dynasty.

Bound with Seneca's Tragedie (Venetiis : P. Pincio, 1510), and incomplete copy of Breydenbach's Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam (Speier : Peter Drach, 1502).

Bookseller's description removed to Bibliographical file.

Bound in contemporary German pigskin over wooden boards, blind tooled in panel design with a double line fillet; outer panel with decorative roll of intertwined leafy vine, and center panel with leafy mandorla shaped stamp with circular Adler on four corners.  Pair of (later?) metal clasps and catches intact, hinging from the lower board and catching on the upper board; edge guards on 3 sides of both boards in brass; 29 of 32 original knotted parchment index tabs extant; endpapers renewed, with original front endpapers and back pastedown mounted on new papers; binding recased, with later ms. in black ink on spine upside down.  In CMI case, 34 cm.

Binding possibly executed in Braunschweig; two of the tools identified  with the shop called Kleinfiguren-Meister, ca. 1476-1515 (cf. Einbanddatenbank, w000213; Adler and plant tools, s000022 and s001285).