De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Utopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festiuus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] uiri Thomae Mori inclytae ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & uicecomitis : Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimique viri Thomae Mori, plera[que] è Græcis uersa : Epigrammata Des. Erasmi Roterodami

Alternate Title:

De optimo reip. statv deqve noua insula Vtopia libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festiuus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] uiri Thomae Mori inclytae ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & vicecomitis; De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, clarissimi disertissimí[que] viri Thomae Mori inclytae civitatis Londinensis civis & vicecomitis

Creator:

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535 (author)

Contributor:

Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527 (printer); Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543 (illustrator); Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540 (contributor); Geldenhauer, Gerard, 1482-1542 (contributor); Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560 (contributor)

Date:

1518

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Assendelft, Gerard van (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Publisher:

Apud Io. Frobenium

Subject:

Utopias -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

355 [that is 359] pages : illustrations; 21 cm (4to)

Related Place:

Switzerland -- Basel.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Imprint from colophon. Title leaf has: Apud inclytam Basileam.; Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of the first part, the Utopia, being dated March, 1518. The Epigrammata of More and Erasmus also have special title leaves.; Signatures: a-s⁴ t-u⁶ x-z⁴ A-I⁴ K⁶ L-T⁴ V⁶.; Titles and some text in woodcut borders; woodcut illustrations, printer's devices, and initials.; Title borders and the illustrations on page [12] and page [25] are from designs by Hans Holbein.; Printed marginalia.; Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Antiquariat Inlibris Gilhofer.; Kislak Center copy has dated 17th-century autograph ("Gherard d'Assendelft. 1603.") at head of title leaf.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, HX810.5 .A2 1518