Author
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Title
Ecclesiastes Salomonis, cum annotationibus Doct. M. Luth. correctus & eme[n]datus. Cum indice &c..
Imprint
Halæ Sueuor[um] : ex offic. P. Brub., An. 36. men. Aug. [1536]
Physical description
24, xxv-cxxxvi leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Note
Title within woodcut border; woodcut initials.
Note
Signatures: A-R8.
Note
With index.
Note
Includes text of Ecclesiastes.
Citation/references note
CLC, B1429
Citation/references note
Adams, B1554
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), L57
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark B54.
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; sewn on four tanned leather supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, enclosing blind panel stamps with heads in medallions (identified by Selwyn as Oldham HM.11/12), both signed MD (for Martin Dature); spine with four raised bands and blind fillets; remains of red ties; printed waste used as endleaves (leaves from Richard Tavener, The garden of wysdom (London, 1539); ESTC S111348; STC (2nd edition) 23711a ); strips of parchment manuscript waste used as endleaf guards; titles and pressmark (B54) in ink on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with Luther, In Cantica canticorum, breuis, sed admodum dilucida enaratio (Wittenberg, 1539).
Copy-specific note
Inscription at foot of title page, identified by Selwyn as Guest's binding instruction: "C in past".
Subject
Bible. Ecclesiastes Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Braubach, Peter, 1500?-1567 printer.
Added entry--name
Dature, Martin binder.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--title
Bible. Ecclesiastes.
Added entry--place
Germany Schwäbisch Hall.
B12711
UKSbSC
20200810114314.9