Author
Ferus, Johann, 1495-1554
Title
In Ecclesiasten Salomonis annotationes, piæ et eruditæ, ex variis cum ueterum orthodoxorum, tum recentiorum scriptis congestæ, ac olim etiam pro concione enarratæ, Anno M.D.XXXIIII. Moguntiæ. / Per F. Ioannem Ferum, summæ apud Mogunt. ædis Concionatorum, &c[etera]..
Varying form of title
In Ecclesiasten Salomonis annotationes, piae et eruditae
Imprint
Moguntiæ : apud D. Victorem, excudebat Francisus Behem,, M. D. L. [1550]
Physical description
[4], 184 leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Note
Signatures: Signatures: a[leaf]4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4.
Note
Woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Note
Colophon on folio 184: "Moguntiae apud D. Victorem, excudebat Franciscus Behem".
Citation/references note
CLC, W366
Citation/references note
Adams, F353
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), W30
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577) (characteristic pressmark and marginal annotations).
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 pasteboards (made of printed waste); sewn on four double tanned leather supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with additional blind vertical fillet closer to spine edge; spine with four raised bands, later gilt fillets, leather spine label (partially missing), and "1550" in later gilt at foot; remains of two blue-green ties at fore-edge; title in ink on fore-edge; pressmark B51 in ink on fore-edge; manuscript waste used as pastedowns (identified by Selwyn as leaves from a 12th-century, 2nd half English manuscript of the Psalms, glossed).
Copy-specific note
Frequent manuscript annotations in ink in Guest's hand.
Copy-specific note
Bound with one other item: Ferus, Ionas propheta, per quadragesimam (Mainz, 1550).
Subject
Bible. Ecclesiastes Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Behem, Franz, approximately 1500-1582 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Mainz.
B11880
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