Compendio historico universale Di tutte le cose notabili già succese nel Mondo, dal principio della sua creatione, sino all'anno di Christo 1594. Di Gio. Nicolo Doglioni. Con la Tauola copiosißima, accommodata per ritrouar facilmenta tutto quello, che di degno, e di memorabil si legge. E nel fine vn Catalogo di tutti I Regni, e Potentati, col nome de' Re, & Prencipi, che vi han dominato di tempo in tempo, cosi auanti come doppo la venuta sel Saluatore del Mondo, sino questi anni presenti

Doglioni, Giovanni Nicolò

Published by Damian Zenaro, Venice, 1594

First edition. Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1594. Pot quarto in 8s (8 5/16" x 6", 211mm x 153mm). [Full collation available.] Bound in contemporary stabbed vellum. On the spine, five raised bands. Title and author ink manuscript to the second panel, date ink manuscript to the fifth. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Partially decased, with the rear hinge still intact. Worming through the spine, with some speckling to the vellum generally. Foxed and tanned throughout, generally mildly. Scattered passages of staining. Small hole to â 1-3, repaired in tissue. Worming A4-C1 at the spine-edge, not affecting the text; and again at Mm5-Oo6, with some old repairs. Old ink underlining to H1r (p. 113), with two small ink marginalia to â 2r. Ex-libris "Comitis Antonii de Pergen," book-label of the Gräflich von Pergen'sche Bibliothek in Aspang (completed in ink manuscript, no. 374), and ex-libris Franz Pollack-Parnau (completed in ink manuscript "F(?)/III/188"), all to the front paste-down.Throughout the XVIc, the Catholic Church recognized the growing error in the Julian calendar and, in fits and starts, pursued its reform. The moveable feasts -- principally though not exclusively Easter, which is celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox -- depend on a precise reconciliation of solar and lunar phenomena. The Julian calendar had obtained in most of the West from its inception in 45 BC, but error had begun to accumulate to a disruptive degree. After many recommendations and international cooperation, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar: 4 October 1582 was followed by 15 October 1582, and the West has abided by the Gregorian calendar ever since. Giovanni Nicolò Doglioni (1548-1629) was a mathematician who published widely in the wake of the Gregorian reform on issues of chronology and cosmology. The present work, a compendious universal history, has a running side-note of the age of the world (our "BC" or "BCE," but without the perplexing backward-counting) and then the age of Christ (our "AD" or "CE"), allowing the reader to follow easily the otherwise widely-ranging train of history. The volume was owned by Anton, Count von Pergen (1799-1860), a career soldier who attained the rank of general, and served as Chamberlain (Dienstkämmerer) to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. After his death, presumably, the book was catalogued in the library at Schloss Aspang, which housed the von Pergen counts from the late XVIIc through 1902. Many related books bear these twin bookplates, e.g., the 1612 Squitinio della libertà veneta now at Stanford (JN5269 .S7 1612). The book then entered the collection of Franz Pollack von Parnau (or Pollack-Parnau, 1903-1981), who assembled a vast library at the Palais Pollack-Parnau in Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna. He was also an historian (albeit of a period later than that covered in the present volume); he published an article on the history of Austrian-East Indian trade in the XVIIIc. Pollack-Parnau's home was seized by the Nazis (as he was Jewish) and used as the headquarters of the Nazi party in Vienna's third district; the building was bombed in 1944 and is now substantially rebuilt. Where did Pollack-Parnau's library go to survive the house's occupation? EDIT16 CNCE 17316. Seller Inventory # JLR0480

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Title: Compendio historico universale Di tutte le ...
Publisher: Damian Zenaro, Venice
Publication Date: 1594
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First.