Aphorismi Urbigerani

Publication and Transmission

The English publication names Baro Urbigerus on both title pages and gives the imprint London, Henry Faithorne, 1690. The principal title promises one hundred and one aphorisms and announces the additional vegetable elixir. The companion has its own title page within the continuously paged volume. Its postscript explains the image placed at the front, so neither the companion nor that explanation is incidental material added by this edition.

The Getty copy supplies the governing page images. Its publication sequence begins with the plate leaf, followed by eight preliminary surfaces and the main sequence through the printed page 86. The five original blanks include the unused face of the plate leaf, the intervening pages 52–54, and the reverse of the companion title. Covers, later ownership and acquisition marks, duplicate captures, and calibration targets belong to the digitised object’s surrounding record rather than the printed work. The inventory distinguishes them from the publication’s own surfaces.

The Text Creation Partnership transcription A25684 supplies a structured reading witness made from a British Library reproduction. It is used alongside the Getty images, with discrepancies checked against the selected copy. The native plate supplies four inscription gaps in that transcription. Other clear transcription errors in words and the companion imprint have been corrected from the page images, while genuine printed irregularities remain in the historical wording. Catalogue collations and electronic page references do not always agree; the edition’s passage locators identify the selected native sequence and printed pages.

The dedication’s account of travel and languages explains the author’s stated reason for English publication. It does not establish a secure legal identity, birthplace, or demonstrated success of the operations. The book’s claims of knowledge and experience are presented in their own voice. Library attribution of the plate signed W. F. is credited to William Faithorne; the initials are not expanded inside the historical inscription as though a full signature were engraved there.