Prima Scribendi Origine Universa Rei by Hugo Hermannus (4 results)

Condition: Bueno. 76765 Hugo Hermannus 1617 Pergamino de época con título caligrafiado en el lomo, pero con desperfectos. 8º. 227 págs. + 1 h. Ilustr. con grabados. Señales de humedad marginal. Es una historia de la escritura y literatura.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Title-page in red and black, decorated throught with woodcut ornaments; 5 copper-engraved plates (2 folding); bound in contemporary full vellum over thongs, neatly titled by hand on the spine. Some occasional light. A very good bright copy. Herman Hugo (9 May 1588 - 11 September 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624, was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century". It went through 42 Latin editions and was widely translated up to the 18th century.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 227 pages; Secure in later patterned-paper covered boards. First edition of this first history of writing and the work of the scribe -- bound with two other contemporary tracts. OCLC: 17838634 Herman Hugo (1588 1629) was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. In addition to this primary work on the history of writing and scribes, he wrote a spiritual emblem book which was extremely popular. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.

18. Antverpiae (Antwerpen), Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarem & Ioannem Moretos, 1617, in-8°, 17 x 11 cm, 227 + (3) pp, engraving on title-page, fine woodcut initials, 2 ills. (p. 83; the directions of writing; p. 85; stylus) and 1 table (p. 123; material supports), woodcut printer's mark at the end, cont. limp overlapping vellum with traces of ties, 19th century library stamp on title, printed ex-dono from the Antwerp Jesuits in 1910 tipped-on to the first past-down, bookblock a bit loose in binding but still a fine copy. The author, 1588 - 1629, finished this fascinating enclyclopia of literary matters at Brussels, 1 June 1616 , so this is the first edition, and dedicated it to Carolus Scribani, the jesuit provincial.