Catalogus Bibliothecae Amplissimae Reipublicae Augustanae
Subtitle: jussis & autoritate nobilissimorum & amplissimorum virorum Dn. Johannis Antonii Laugingeri, VIIviri, Dn. Johannis Vdalrici Oesterreicheri, Praetoris, Bibliothecae praefectorum et scholarcharum
By: studio & opera Eliae Ehingeri, Augustani, bibliothecarii.
Contributors: Ehinger, Elias, fl. 1633.
Publisher: Typis Johannis Praetorii
Published: 1633
Place of publication: Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 944
Subjects: Bibliotheca Augustana -- Catalogs; Libraries -- Germany -- Augsburg -- Catalogs; Catalogs, Book -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Catalogs.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Catalogvs Bibliothecae amplissimae Reipvblicae Avgvstanae
Notes: Title page in red and black.
Arranged primarily by branch of scholarship (Libri theologici, Libri juridici, Libri medici ...), mixed with arrangement by size, repository, language. "Index alphabeticus autorum Bibliothecae" with ca. 5500 names (the [122] columns at end) covers the whole collection of ca. 11,000 books.
Engraved vignette on t.p.: a giant spruce cone (symbol of hard-to-reach learning) on pedestal, supported by two topless angels; motto "Honos erit huic quoque pomo."
Colophon (on last printed page): Augustae Vindelicorum excudebat Johannes Praetorius, MDCXXXIII, 5. Novemb. die S. Malachiae sacra ... Page includes woodcut device with crown on a pole, horn of plenty, olive branch, motto "Iusticia, pietas, hinc pax, tu[m] corda firm[antur?]," and "Eusebeia" in Greek capitals.
Signatures: ):(² A-Z² Aa-Tttttt² (Tttttt2, blank? wanting in LC copy).
Two (numbered) columns per page. Most of the text is in italics.
Includes index.