Author
Fontaine, Simon
Title
Historica ac docta dilucidaque Fratris Simonis Fontani, Senonensis Franciscani, Doctoris Theologi Parisien. in lib. Ruth explicatio.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: In lib. Ruth explicatio
Varying form of title
Running title: Commentaria in lib. Ruth.
Varying form of title
Historica ac docta dilvcidaqve Fratris Simonis Fontani, Senonensis Franciscani, Doctoris Theologi Parisien. in lib. Ruth explicatio.
Imprint
Parisiis : Apud Claudium Fremy, via Iacobæa, d insigne diui Martini., M. D. LX. [1560]
Physical description
117, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A-O8 P6.
Note
Running title: Commentaria in lib. Ruth.
Note
Final leaf blank.
Note
Woodcut head-piece and initials; printed marginal notes.
Note
In the imprint, the "l" of Claudium" is below the line.
Citation/references note
CLC, F511
Citation/references note
David Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), F28
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark and annotation on title page.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century, large format) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”.
Binding
16th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; repaired and rebacked (20th century?); sewn on four supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with blind centrepiece stamp; remains of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; title in ink on fore-edge; pressmark B55 in ink on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with three other titles: Calvin, In librum Iosue breuis commentarius (Geneva 1564); Camerarius, Sententiae Iesu Siracidae (Leipzig, 1568); Camerarius, Sapientia Iesu filii Sirachi (Leipzig, 1658).
Copy-specific note
What looks to be "first" (cropped) is written in Guest's hand at the foot of the title page, presumably a binding instruction; the third item in the volume has "third" written in Guest's hand at the foot of its title page.
Subject
Bible. Ruth Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Fremy, Claude, active 1552-1579 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
B12380
UKSbSC
20200303153704.0