Other details
- Description:
44 pages, [1]-35 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm (4to)
- Variant Title:
Spine title: Latino. Autrias Carmen
Title from case: Books of Juan Latino
- Published:
Garnatae : Ex officina Hugonis de Mena, 1573.
- Language:
Latin
- Cited In:
Palau y Dulcet. Manual del librero hispano-americano, VII, 132865
- Notes:
Two parts in one volume.
Initials and tail-pieces. Includes the coat-of-arms of Philip II of Spain, and poems dedicated to Pope Pius V.
Includes extra privilege leaf in Spanish.
"Deqve sanctissimi Pii quinti Romanae ecclesiae pontificis summi, rebus, & affectibus erga Philippum regem christianissimum, liber vnus. Avstrias carmen, de excellentissimi domini. d. Ioannis ab Austria ... Libri duo."
The "Austriadis libri duo", with heading "Ad illvstrissimvm ... D. Petrum a Deza", has special t.p., separate signatures & foliation.
"The author of this book is an African Negro. This book contains poems dedicated to Pope Pius V, and Austriada, extolling the glories of Lepanto in two books"--Palau y Dulcet.
- Local Notes:
RBC copy: Manuscript inscription of Fray Pedro Duran on verso of final leaf. Spine title misspelled, "Autrias". Bound in modern vellum. Housed in case with: Ad catholicum, et inuictissimum Philippum Dei gratia Hispaniarum regem. Case covered partially with red marbled paper. Black leather on spine, lettered in gilt: The books of Juan Latino. The case also contains a leaf advertising a talk by Charles Carpenter on Juan Latino presented at the Glickman Library, Portland, Maine, Feburary 8th, [2012?]. Gift of John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation.
- OCLC Number:
27647248