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Caroli Noceti e Societate Jesu De iride et aurora boreali carmina

Noceti, Carlo, 1694-1759, Bošcović, Rudjer Josip, 1711-1787, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1747 · Romæ : Ex typographia Palladis : Excudebant Nicolaus et Marcus Palearini · 8 pictures

This is a 1747 Latin poem collection by Jesuit writer Carlo Noceti, with a commentary by Rudjer Bošković, printed in Rome by the Palearini brothers for scholars studying rainbows and aurorae. The pictures are ornamental engraved headpieces and tailpieces: a monogram cartouche, a framed allegorical vignette, a flowering urn, and a scrolled border with a central mask, all in dense black line on cream paper, offering a designer rococo scrollwork, floral garlands and cartouche framing.

Rainbow · Auroras

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