Author
Draconites, Johannes, 1494-1566
Title
Commentarius in Psalterium : & Psalmorum usus. Cum indice. / D. Ioannes Draconites..
Varying form of title
Commentarivs in Psalterivm : & Psalmorum usus
Imprint
Marpurgi. : Impressum in officina Christiani Egenolphi., Anno. M. D. XL [-XLIII] [1540-1543]
Physical description
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 15 cm (8vo)
Note
Paginiation: v. 1: [8], 144, [4] ; v.2: 147, [5] leaves.
Note
Signatures: v. 1:*8 A-S8 T4 ; v.2: a-t8.
Note
Woodcut of King David playing the harp on leaf *3; woodcut initials.
Note
Title page of vol. 1 in red and black.
Note
Vol. 1 contains the text of the Psalms; vol 2 contains commentary.
Note
Imprint from colophons: vol. 1: "Marpurgi anno M. D. XL. Mense Martio."; vol. 2: "Marpurgi impressum in officina Christiani Egenolphi. Anno. XLIII.".
Note
Final leaf of vol. 2 blank.
Citation/references note
CLC, D804
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), D23
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark A48 and binding instruction on leaf *3 of vol. 1: "[p]ast".
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; sewn on four tanned leather supports; blind fillets forming rectangular frame on boards; spine with four raised bands and blind fillets; pressmark A48 and titles in ink on fore-edge; parchment manuscript waste used as pastedowns, now unstuck (identified by Selwyn as leaves from a 14th-century English Breviary).
Copy-specific note
Infrequent marginal annotations that, according to Selwyn, are not in Guest's hand.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Luther, Summaria D. Mar. Lutheri in Psalmos (Wittenberg, 1534) and Luther, Praelectio D. Martini Lutheri, in Psalmum CXXVII (Wittenberg, 1534).
Subject
Bible. Psalms Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Egenolff, Christian, 1502-1555 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--title
Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1540.
Added entry--place
Germany Marburg.
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