Author
Major, Georg, 1502-1574
Title
Enchiridion Epistolæ S. Pauli ad Romanos. : Ex Græcorum tt Latinorum, veterum & recentium scriptorum, & præcipue ex Reuerendi uiri D. Philippi Melanthonis commentarijs in usum iuuentutis collectum / A Georgio Maiore D..
Varying form of title
Enchiridion Epistolae S. Pauli ad Romanos
Varying form of title
Enchiridion Epistolae S. Pavli ad Romanos
Varying form of title
Enchiridion Epistolæ S. Pavli ad Romanos
Imprint
VVitebergæ : per Iohannem Lufft., 1557..
Physical description
[16], 136 leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: [leaf]8 (.)8 A-R8.
Note
Woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Citation/references note
CLC, M776
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), M30
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark and 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 paper boards; sewn on four tawed leather supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards edges of boards, with blind lozenge-shaped centrepiece stamp; spine (partially missing) with four raised bands, and blind fillets and hatching; remains of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; titles in ink on fore-edge; pressmark A38 on fore-edge; parchment manuscript waste used as endleaf guards (identified by Selwyn as fragments from a 12th-century scientific manuscript).
Copy-specific note
Bound with two other works: Chytraeus, Commentarius in Matthaeum Euangelistam (Strasbourg, 1556); and Major, Enarratio secundae Epistolae ad Corinthios (Wittenberg, 1558).
Subject
Bible. Romans Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Lufft, Hans, 1495-1584 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560
Added entry--title
Bible. Romans Latin 1557.
Added entry--place
Germany Wittenberg.
B12406
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