Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regularis Orbis breuiarium fide, compendio, ordineq[ue] captu ac memoratu facillimum foelix et gratus legito
Contributors: Bosso, Matteo, 1427 or 1428-1502, dedicatee; Miscomini, Antonio, active 1476-1494, printer; Borghese, Marcantonio, principe, 1814-1886, former owner
Publisher: [Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini]
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Florence, Italy]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Ancient Geography; Geography; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800; Latin; Incunabula; Specimens; World maps
Other titles: Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regvlaris Orbis breviarivm fide, compendio, ordineqve captv ac memoratv facillimvm foelix et gratvs legito; Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regularis Orbis breviarium; Zacharias Lilius Vicentinus canonicus regularis Matthaeo Bosso Veronensi concanonico patriq. suo opt. ac veneran. p.s. in domino; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Orbis breviarium
Description: A compendium of geographical information taken from a large number of classical sources, arranged alphabetically by place, with a summary of names ("Vrbes celebriores quae in hoc libro continentur") on leaves r4r-r6v. The author was the first to condense the writings of the ancient and medieval geographers into one work.
Notes: Title from a3 verso.

Title and text preceded by five pages containing a dedicatory letter from the author to Matthaeus Bossus and the reply of Bossus to the author.

Imprint dervied from colophon (r3 verso): Impressit Florenti[ae] Antonius Miscominus Anno Salutis .M.CCCCLXXXXIII. Nonis Iuniis. Miscomini's woodcut device found on leaf r6v in some copies.

Collation: 4to: áþ b-q́ı ŕœ [$4 (-a1,2, r4) signed]; 130 leaves, unnumbered.

Chancery quarto; double columns on r4 recto-r6 verso, b5 recto: single column, 26 lines, with first letter of paragraph set out and with printed marginalia, 143 x 84 (88 including first letter in margin; 112 including both first letter in margin and marginalia); types: 112R; initial spaces with guide letters.

With a T-O map (circle divided by a T into the three continents, with Asia in the top hemisphere), on leaf a4v, and above it a diagram of the six zones of the world, both consisting of type, printed in black, divided and framed within a composition of rules printed in red; on leaf q5r is a similarly composed diagram of the climatic zones, with the type set vertically reading up. See T. Campbell, The earliest printed maps, 1472-1500, no. 84 (page 112), describing the red framing as woodcut, and the map as having "the narrow technical distinction of being the first to be printed in more than one colour."

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 642

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M18351

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, L218

Incunabula short title catalogue, il00218000

cataloged 20190731 jm

condition reviewed 20190913 cl