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Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus / authore Olao Magno Gotho, Archiepiscopo Vpsalensi, Suetiae & Gothiae Primate ; sic in epitomen redacta, vt non minus clarè quàm breuiter quicquid apud septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur.

Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557, author.; Grapheus, Cornelius Scribonius, 1482-1558.; Mercier, A., former owner.; Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.; Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (Abbey), former owner.
1558
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Title
Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus / authore Olao Magno Gotho, Archiepiscopo Vpsalensi, Suetiae & Gothiae Primate ; sic in epitomen redacta, vt non minus clarè quàm breuiter quicquid apud septentrionales scitu dignum est, complectatur.
Uniform title
Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus
Created/published
Antuerpiae : Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1558.
Description
[8], 192 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557, author.
Grapheus, Cornelius Scribonius, 1482-1558.
Mercier, A., former owner.
Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer.
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (Abbey), former owner.
Note
An abridgement, by Cornelius Scribonius, of the original edition, Rome, 1555.

Title vignette: Printer's device.

Signatures: a⁸, A-2A⁸.
Cited/described in
Voet, L. Plantin press, 1811
Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, 2022
BM STC Dutch and Flemish, 1470-1600, p. 127
Genre/form
Illustrations (layout features)
Place of creation/publication
Belgium -- Antwerp.

Call number
214- 193q
Folger-specific note
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux-A. Mercier copy.

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