Author
Capito, Wolfgang, 1478-1541
Title
In Hoseam prophetam V. F. Capitonis commentarius. : Ex quo peculiaria prophetis, & hactenus fortassis nusquam sic tractata, si uersam pagellam & indicem percurris, cognoscere potes..
Imprint
Argentorati : apud Ioannem Hervagium, mense Aprili. Anno M.D.XXVIII. [1528]
Physical description
[16], 284 leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: pi8 2pi8 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn4.
Note
Woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
CLC, C486
Citation/references note
Adams, B1610
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), C37
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark A18.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate with inscription “This book belongs to the library of the Cathedral Church of New Sarum. James Evans, D. D. Librarian. 1817.”
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 from printed waste); sewn on four tanned leather thongs; blind fillets and rolls forming concentric rectangular frames on boards (roll identified by Selwyn as Oldham HM.h(29) 854), with blind stamps at inner corners of innermost frame and at centre of frame; spine with four raised bands and blind fillets at head and tail, later gilt fillets, title label, and date in gilt; remains of two green and red ties at fore-edge; titles in ink on fore-edge; pressmark A18 in ink on fore-edge; parchment manuscript waste used as pastedowns, now unstuck (identified by Selwyn as leaves from a 14th-century English manuscript of Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica). Tentatively attributed to Nicholas Spierinck, Cambridge, by David Pearson.
Copy-specific note
Bound with one other item: Luther, Enarratio ... in Iohelem, Amos & Abdiam (Strasbourg, 1536).
Subject
Bible. Hosea Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Herwagen, Johann, 1497-1559? printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Spierinck, Nicholas, -1545 or 1546 attributed name.
Added entry--place
France Strasbourg.
B12183
UKSbSC
20211102145218.9