Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis De arte gymnastica libri sex
Subtitle: in quibus exercitationum omnium vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur.
Contributors: Coriolanus, Christophorus; Frisius, Andreas, d. 1675; Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708; Blooteling, Abraham, 1640-1690.; Woltzen, Johann Conrad (autograph); Waring (autograph)
Edition: Editio novissima, aucta, emendata, & figuris authenticis / Christophori Coriolani exornata.
Publisher: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii
Published: 1672
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Physical education and training -- Early works to 1800; Exercise -- Early works to 1800; Gymnastics -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Hieronymi Mercvrialis Foroliviensis De arte gymnastica libri sex
Work titles: De arte gymnastica libri sex.
Notes: The woodcut illustrations, from the same blocks as those in the Giunta editions from 1573 to 1644, were designed for Mercuriale by Pirro Ligorio and cut by Cristoforo Coriolani. The plans are engraved after the original woodcuts. The engraved plates are newly added in this edition. Cf. editor's pref.

Edited by Andreas Frisius, the text based on the 1644 Giunta edition newly collated with several manuscript copies.

Added engr. t.p. signed by the engraver: Romyn de Hooghe.

Title page vignette signed: A. Bloteling.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fisher copy 1: Preliminary leaf [1] (blank?) wanting.  With the autograph of Joannis Conradi Woltzen on t.p.

Fisher copy 2: With the autograph of Waring.