Author
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Title
Des. Erasmi Roterodami Apologia aduersus rhapsodias calumniosarum querimoniarum Alberti Pij quondam Carporum principis, : que[m] & senem & moribundum & ad quiduis potius accommodum homines quidam male auspicati, ad hanc illiberalem fabulam agenda[m] subornarunt..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Apologia adversus rhapsodias calumniosarum querimoniarum Alberti Pij quondam Carporum principis
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Apologia aduersus rhapsodias calumniosarum querimoniarum Alberti Pij quondam Carporum principis
Varying form of title
Des. Erasmi Roterodami Apologia adversus rhapsodias calumniosarum querimoniarum Alberti Pij quondam Carporum principis
Imprint
Basileae : In officina Frobeniana. , Anno M. D. XXXI. [1531]
Physical description
285, [3] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Colophon on leaf ss7r reads: 'Basileae, in officina Frobeniana, per Hieronymu[m] Frobenium & Nicolaum Episcopium, Anno M. D. XXXI.'
Note
Errata: leaf ss7v.
Note
Printer's device on title page and verso of final leaf.
Note
Signatures: aa-ss⁸.
Note
Final leaf black except for printer's device on verso.
Citation/references note
Bezzel, I. Erasmusdrucke des 16. jahrhunderts, 179
Citation/references note
Adams, E474
Citation/references note
CLC, E320
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), E24
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with early fore-edge titles and pressmark F42 [?].
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 (boards made from printed waste); sewn on five tanned leather supports; boards decorated with blind fillets forming a rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, with a blind stamp and the initials EG (for Edmund Guest) at centre, and the same blind stamp at the inner corners; spine with five raised bands, blind fillets, and blind hatching at tail (head of spine now missing); manuscript waste used as pastedowns (now loose), identified by David Selwyn as two leaves from a 14th-century alphabetical dictionary (probably English); evidence of two pairs of leather ties at fore-edge; titles and pressmark F42 [?] in ink on fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with five other works by Erasmus: (a) Epistolae duae recens conditae & aeditae (Antwerp, 1530); (b) Adversus Petri Sutoris … debacchatione[m] apologia (Basel, 1525); (d) Dilutio eorum quae Iodocus Clithoueus scripsit adversus Declamationem suasoriam matrimonii ([Basel], 1532); (e) Purgatio adversus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri (Basel, 1534); (f) Adversus febricitantis cuiusdam libellum responsio (Basel, 1529).
Subject
Pio, Alberto, 1475-1531?
Added entry--name
Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563 printer.
Added entry--name
Episcopius, Nicolaus, 1501-1564 printer.
Added entry--name
Pio, Alberto, 1475-1531?
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Officina Frobeniana printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
B13926
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