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Ori Apollinis Niliaci, De sacris Aegyptiorum notis, Aegyptiacè expressis : libri duo, iconibus illustrati, & aucti : nunc primùm in latinum ac gallicum sermonem conversi

by: Horapollo; Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522-ca. 1593, ill; Du Pré, Galliot, d. 1561, printer; Ruelle, Jean, d. 1571, printer

Publication date: 1574

Topics: Emblems, Emblems --Early works to 1800., Emblem books, Latin --France --16th century., Emblem books --France --16th century., Ink stamps (Provenance)

Publisher: Parisiis : Apud Galeotum à Prato, & Ioannem Ruellium: Via Iacobaea

Collection: emblem; americana

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Latin; French

Title within illustrated border; headpiece; initials

Last leaf is blank

Decorated t.p. attributed to J. Cousin --Cf. Praz

Each emblem is within a typographical ornamental frame

Tables of contents for the first and second books on leaves [4]-[8]

The Second Book begins on numbered leaf 43

The emblems on leaves C3r and G7r are printed upside down; the emblem on leaf I2v is printed sideways--Cf. Landwehr

Running title: Orvs Apollo

Signatures: * A-N O

IU Baldwin copy lacks leaf H7

IU Emblems copy imperfect: lacks leaves A1 and B8; 3 ill. removed from ff. 53 and 107; leaves *1 (t.p.) and O3 torn, with significant loss of text

IU Emblems copy bound with Reusner, N., Picta poesis Ovidiana. Frankfurt, 1580

BM STC French, 1470-1600, p. 230

Heckscher, W.S. Emblem books in the Princeton U. Lib. STC, 437

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese emblem books, 389

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, H41 (Baldwin copy)

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, H42 (Emblems copy)

Praz, M. Studies in 17th c. imagery