Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets.

  • John Ferguson
Date:
1910
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Credit: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions and books of secrets. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Signature )( contains the Title, Salmuth’s Praefatio to Frederick Count Palatine, dated: Amberg, 5th INIarch 1599, Joachim Camerarius to Salmuth, commendatory verses, titles of the chapters, and a quotation from Scaliger. The text occupies pp. 752. Then follow a list of laws discussed in the book, Index Rerum et Verborum, and Errata. On Ccc 7 rato is Forster’s device, and beneath : Ambergas, | Ex Officina Typographica Mi- | cbaelis Forsteri. | M. D. XCIX. | The verso is blank, and Ccc 8 is wanting. The second volume has the following title page: Nova 1 Reperta, | Sive | Rerum Memovabilium, | Recens Inventarum, | et | Veteribus Plane j Incognitarum | Guidonis Pancirol’ | li IC. 1 Liber Secundus. | Jam primum ex Italico Latine reddi | tus, & Commentariis illuftratus | Ab [ Henrico Salmuth. | Ambetgae. | Typis Forfterianis. | M.D.CII. I Small Svo. Signatures: (:) in eight, ):( in two, A to Z, Aa to Zz, in eights, Aaa in four ; or, pp. [20], 719, [21, 2 blank]. The 20 preliminary pages contain the Title, Salmuth’s preface to Christian, Prince of Anhalt, dated: Amberg?e, Kal. Martii, 1602, dedicatory and com- mendatory verses, and heads of chapters. The text occupies pp. 719. The unnumbered pages at the end contain the laws discussed in the volume. Index Verborum, and table of Errata. The last leaf is blank. The earliest editions, therefore, seems to have been as follows; P'ourth (?) edition, Frankfurt, 1622. (See Part II., p. 243.) The original Italian had been circulated in manuscript, and a copy had reached Salmuth, who had been a student under Panciroli at Padua, and who translated it into I.atin. The translator, however, was a Lutheran; the book acquired a heretical strain, and it was ultimately condemned. Carlo Emanuele, Duke of Savoy, however, and the nephews of Panciroli, thinking this was a severe punishment of the innocent author, at last succeeded in Part I. First edition, Amberg, 1559. Second edition, Amberg, 1667. Third edition, Amberg, 1612. I’ART II. First edition, Amberg, 1602. Second edition, Amberg, 1608. Third edition, Amberg, 1612.