Author
Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560
Title
Philippi Melanchthonis annotationes in Iohannem; : castigatiores quàm quæ antea inuulgatæ sunt. Utpote in quibus multa, quæ desunt in alijs, habentur, unà cu[m] Epistola co[m]me[n]datitia M. Lutheri. Indiceq[ue] rerum memorabilium; quæ passim in hoc annotationu[m] opere excutiu[n]tur..
Imprint
[Nuremberg : J. Petreius], Anno M. D. XXIII. [1523]
Physical description
138, [6] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Place of printing and name of printer from CLC and VD 16.
Note
Signatures: a-s8.
Note
Title within woodcut border; woodcut head-pieces and initials.
Note
With index.
Note
"D. Nicolao Gerbellio viro pure Christiano, Martinus Luther.": caption title on leaf 1v.
Citation/references note
CLC, M908
Citation/references note
VD 16, M 2479
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), M50
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark. Selwyn suggests that the book had a previous owner.
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 paste boards (made of printed waste); sewn on four tanned leather supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with an inner frame of fillets extending to board edges, and intersecting at the corners; spine with four raised bands and blind fillets; remains of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; titles in ink on fore-edge (Selwyn suggests that these were written prior to Guest's ownership); pressmark A42 on fore-edge; parchment manuscript waste used as pastedowns (identified by Selwyn as leaves from a 13th-century English manuscript of Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus).
Copy-specific note
Price "xvi d" written on upper free endleaf.
Copy-specific note
Part of a cropped inscription is visible at head of title page of first item in volume.
Copy-specific note
Bound with one other item: Melanchthon, In Euangelium Matthæi (Haguenau, 1531).
Subject
Bible. John Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Added entry--name
Petrejus, Johannes, 1497-1550 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Nuremberg.
B12493
UKSbSC
20200316105121.5