Author
Major, Georg, 1502-1574
Title
Enarratio Epistolæ Pauli Secundæ ad Timotheum, / prælecta anno 1562. A D. Georgio Maiore. Quæ cognitione dignissima addita sint, ostendet sequens catalogus.
Varying form of title
Enarratio Epistolae Pauli Secundae ad Timotheum
Varying form of title
Enarratio Epistolæ Pavli Secvndæ ad Timotheum
Varying form of title
Enarratio Epistolae Pavli Secvndae ad Timotheum
Imprint
VVitebergæ : Excudebat Iohannes Lufft, Anno M. D. LXIIII. [1564]
Physical description
[24], 167, [1] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Note
Imprint from colophon on leaf 167v.
Note
Signatures: )(8 (8 A-Y8.
Note
Includes 9 works by Melanchthon, listed on the verso of the title page (the "Catalogus" as mentioned on the title page) and each with caption title: "Methodus discendi sacras literas" (fol. 110r-114v); "De officiis concionatoris" (fol. 114v-122r); "De modo et arte concionandi" (fol. 122r-144r); "Praeceptum de studio et exercitio doctrinae" (fol. 144v-145r); "De tribus partibus officii concionatoris" (fol. 145r-149r); "Oratio in synodo recitata Mersburgi 5. Octob. Anno 1547" (fol. 149r-156v); "Consolatio ministrorum verbi" (fol. 156v-162r); "De tribus contionum generibus" (fol. 162v-165r); "Epistola Philippi Melanthonis ad quendam amicum, de ratione concionandi" (fol. 165v-167v).
Note
Woodcut illustration on title page; initials.
Citation/references note
CLC, M781
Citation/references note
VD 16, ZV 2000
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), M35
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark, fore-edge titles, and annotation.
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; repaired and rebacked May 1938 and July 1947; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with blind stamp (blank cartouche) in centre of boards; spine with four raised bands, and author, title and date in gilt (20th-century); evidence of two pairs of ties at fore-edge; title in ink on fore-edge; pressmark A47 on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Inscription (cropped) in Guest's hand on title page.
Copy-specific note
Bound with one other item: Major, Enarratio Epistolarum Pauli ad Titum et Philemonem (Wittenberg, 1565).
Subject
Bible. Timothy, 2nd Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Lufft, Hans, 1495-1584 printer.
Added entry--name
Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560 author.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--title
Bible. Timothy, 2nd.
Added entry--place
Germany Wittenberg.
B12494
UKSbSC
20200316120137.6