Prima[-seconda] parte del Prontvario de le medaglie de piv illvstri & fulgenti huomini & donne
Subtitle: dal principio del mondo insino al presente tempo, con le lor vite in compendio raccolte
Publisher: Appresso Gvglielmo Rovillio
Published: 1553
Place of publication: In Lione
Language: ita
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Portraits; Early works to 1800; Medals; Biography
Other titles: Prontvario de le medaglie de piv illvstri & fulgenti huomini & donne; Prontuario de le medaglie de piu illustri e fulgenti huomini e donne; Prima parte del Prontvario de le medaglie de piv illvstri & fulgenti huomini & donne; Prima parte del Prontuario de le medaglie de piv illvstri & fulgenti huomini & donne
Work titles: Promptuarium iconum insigniorum a seculo hominum
Notes: Also published in Latin and French eds. the same year; see Mortimer.

Rouillé's device with snakes and eagle on t.p. Medallion ports.; their authorship is discussed by Mortimer. Initials.

Added t.p. of v. 2 reads: La seconda parte del Prontvario delle medaglie, la quale ha principio da la natiuità del nostro saluatore Giesu Christo, & cõtinoua insino al christianissimo rè di Francia, Henrico secondo di nome, il quale al presente regna felicemente.

Mortimer, R.  French 16th-cent., 465

Binding, c. 1: later vellum. Red leather spine label with title: G.ROVILLIO / PRONTUAR. / DELLE / MEDAGL. / [rule] / LION.1553. The edges yellow. Copy 2: 19th-cent. textured purple cloth, quarter sprinkled sheepskin. Spine label with title: MEDAGLIE / [rule] / 1553.

On t.p. of c. 1 at either side of printer's device has been written: Xro naque / del 3962. Centered on front pastedown of c. 2 is booklabel of Standfast Library. Above it is signature in pencil of E.G. Waterhouse. Signature in blackish ink at upper right corner of t.p. Lower 3 cm. of t.p. cut off.