Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce

atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat

by Francesco Colonna

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: Primary source

[468] pages : illustrations ; 31 cm [468] pages : 31 cm Name of the author given in acrostic formed by the first letters of the chapters: Poliam frater Franciscus Columna peramauit "P. Scapecchi, in Accademie e biblioteche d'Italia 51 (1983) pp. 286-98 and 53 (1985) pp. 68-73, argues that Colonna is the dedicatee, and that the author is Fra Eliseo da Treviso."--ISTC (RLIN), ic00767000 Imprint from colophon (F4r), in which date precedes printer's name. At bottom of F3r: .M. CCCC. LXVII. Kalendis Maii Signatures: 2⁴ a-y⁸ z¹⁰ A-E⁸€ F⁴ C1 missigned E; F4v and z10v are blanks Woodcut capitals Woodcuts on a6v and c1r signed: b Errata: F4r Includes (p. [2]-[8]) contributions by Leonardo Crasso, Johann Baptista Scytha, and Andreas Maro Brixianus. Crasso underwrote the cost of the book's printing. Cf. Gerulaitis, L.V., Printing and publishing in fifteenth-century Venice, p. 4

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Out-of-body, astral, and dream studies.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Dreams”. Retained metadata contains “Dreams” in the subject metadata.

    • Dreams· via Internet Archive
    • Dreams· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1499-01-01T00:00:00ZVenetiis : In aedibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissimeLatinPublic digitized item

Subjects

7 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: McGill University Library
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
Catalog id
internet-archive:McGillLibrary-rbsc_hypnerotomachia-poliphili_foliolncun1499Colonna-20536
Edition coverage
Internet archive source record
Retrieved