Author
Ferus, Johann, 1495-1554
Title
Iobi historiae docta et catholica explicatio in CXIIII. conciones eleganter distributa, : non solum piam ac salutiferam Christianæ patientiæ doctrinam, verùmetiam orthodoxam ecclesiæ de præcipuis religionis controuersijs sententiam, luculenta methodo complectens. / ante annos XIX. per R. Patrem D. Ioannem Ferum ... enarrata..
Varying form of title
Iobi historiae docta et catholica explicatio in CXIIII. conciones eleganter distribvta
Imprint
Coloniae : Sumptibus Arnoldi Birckmanni F. & Francisci Bohemi., M. D. LXXI. [1571]
Physical description
[12], 736 p. ; 17 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: [fleuron]6 A-Z8 Aa-Zz8 Aaa2. Aaa2 blank.
Note
Numerous errors in pagination.
Note
Printer's device on title page; woodcut initials.
Note
Title page dated M. D. LXXI.
Citation/references note
Adams, F349
Citation/references note
CLC, W364
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), W28
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 “Cathedral Library, Salisbury.”
Binding
16th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; sewn on four supports; blind fillets forming two concentric rectangular frames on boards, with blind stamps at outer corners of inner frame and in centre of boards; spine with four raised bands and horizontal blind fillets; remains of two ties at fore-edge; pressmark in ink on fore-edge: B58; printed waste used as endleaves.
Copy-specific note
Folios [fleuron]2.5 misbound at end of volume.
Copy-specific note
Manuscript annotation (instructions to binder) in Guest's hand at foot of title page: "In past by vt .. .[remainder torn away].
Subject
Bible. Job Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Behem, Franz, approximately 1500-1582 publisher.
Added entry--name
Birckmann, Arnold, 1525?-1576 publisher.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Arnold Birckmanns Erben publisher.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
B11767
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