Tesserae gentilitiae
By: a Silvestro Petra Sancta Romano Societatis Iesu, ex legibus fecialium descriptae
Contributors: Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco, 1610-1662
Publisher: Typis haered. Francisci Corbelletti
Published: 1638
Place of publication: Romae
Language: ita
Number of pages: 678
Subjects: Heraldry; Early works to 1800; Devices (Heraldry); Handbooks, manuals
Other titles: Tesserae gentilitiae, ex legibus fecialium descriptae
Notes: Latin text printed in double columns, the in-text etchings of coats of arms blazoned in French in the margins.

Engraved title by Matthaus Greuter after Francesco Romanelli. Full-page engraved arms of Taddeo Barberini, Prefect of Rome, to whom the work is dedicated. Head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Signatures: a⁴(-a2) b⁴ A-4S⁴ 4T⁸.

Includes index, errata, and glossary of Latin heraldic terms giving the Italian equivalents.

Copy 1 lacks plate with Barberini arms.

Binding, c. 1: old calfskin. Backstrip wanting. Edges sprinkled red. Copy 2: old sprinkled goatskin. Edges of boards and spine tooled in gilt, author & title on spine label in gilt. Page edges red.

Copy 1 has pencilled signature of E.K. Waterhouse. Copy 2 has bookplate with arms of Uggla (perhaps Carl Hillebranson Uggla, 1725-1803, writer on heraldry).