Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetustatis
Subtitle: non illae quidem Romanae, sed totius fere orbis summo, studio ac maximis impensis terra mariq[ue] conquisitæ feliciter incipiunt
By: Magnifico viro Domino Raymundo Fuggero invictis Simorum Caesaris Caroli Quinti ac Ferdinandi Romanoru[m] regis a consiliis, bonarum literatu[m] Mecenæti incomparabili Petrus Apianus mathematic[us]] Ingolstadien[sis] & Barptholomeus Amantius peota DED
Publisher: in aedibus P. Apiani
Published: 1534
Place of publication: Ingolstadii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Latin Inscriptions; Early works to 1800; Latin Abbreviations
Other titles: Inscriptiones sacrosanctae vetvstatis
Notes: Signatures: Aa-Bb⁴ a-c⁴ A-Z⁴ ²a-z⁴ aa-tt⁴.

Title-page in red and black, with large woodcut vignette of Mercury.

With woodcut illustrations and historiated initials.

Most pages of main text framed within woodcut ornamental border.

"Abbreviationes vetustorum monumentorum in ordinem alphabeticum digestae" on leaves a1 recto-c3 recto.

Errata on pages [14]-[15].

Numerous errors in pagination.

Woodcut printer's device of Peter Apian on final page with motto in Greek, Hebrew and Latin (Latin reads: 'Industria superat vires') and imprint Ingolstadii M.D.XXXIIII.

Woodcut armorial vignette - arms of Raymond Fugger - on leaf Aa2 recto.

16th-century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards. Ms. inscr. at beginning, bookplate of Victor Stedingk. Remnant of spine label and of links.

Adams A1291.

USTC, 666636.

Inscription at foot of title-page, only part-read: "Hae...(?)ditaszia(?) ince possideor a Georgio Geilera(?) vallis mazorrio. Anno, vireginii paratg, 1560". There are marginal annotations in what looks to be the same hand - these confined largely to the preliminaries.

Marginal annotations in pencil in a 19th(?) century hand, in French.

Armorial bookplate of W. Harry Rylands, with motto "Dum spiro spero", accompanied by a note in his hand, concerning the illustrations ("supposed to have been executed by Albrecht Durer") and claims to the rarity of this work in Hearne and Clement.

University College Liverpool Library bookplate: "Bequeathed by Thomas Glazebrook Rylands, Esq. of Highfields, Thelwall, Cheshire, A.D. 1900".

16th(?) century pigskin binding over bevelled wooden boards. With blind tooled panelled design to boards, and blind rolled pattern to central and middle panels. Four brass cornerpieces, with an engraved fleurs-de-lys pattern. Engraved central brass boss. Clasps running from the lower to the upper board. Four raised bands. Spine title in ink.