Author
Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt, -853
Uniform title
De varietate librorum
Title
D. Haymonis Episcopi Halberstattensis, De varietate librorum, siue, De amore cœlestis patriæ, libri. III..
Varying form of title
De amore cœlestis patriæ, libri. III
Varying form of title
De amore coelestis patriae
Varying form of title
D. Haymonis Episcopi Halberstattensis, De varietate librorum, siue, De amore coelestis patriae, libri. III
Edition
Nunc primu[m] typis excusi..
Imprint
Coloniae : apud Ioannem Prael,, Anno M.D.XXXI. [1531]
Physical description
[164] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: a-i⁸ k¹⁰.
Note
Unpaginated.
Note
Woodcut printer's device on verso of final leaf, above colophon; woodcut initials.
Note
Colophon (verso of final leaf) dated 18 June 1531.
Citation/references note
Adams, H88
Citation/references note
CLC, H177
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), H11
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577).
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
16th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; blind fillets forming concentric rectangular frames on boards, surrounding central panel stamps. On the upper board, the panel is heads-in-medallions (identified by David Selwyn as Oldham HM.15); on the lower board, the panel has two vertical columns of roundels with animals (identified by Selwyn as Oldham AN.14). Spine with three raised bands, and later gilt title and date; titles in ink on fore-edge; pressmark C36 on fore-edge; evidence of two ties on boards at fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with two other works: Alcuin, In Ecclesiasten commentaria (Basel, 1531); and Wilram, Abbot of Ebersberg, In Cantica Solomonis mystica explanatio (Haguenau, 1528).
Subject
Catholic Church
Added entry--name
Prael, Johannes, active 1530-1538 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
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