Author
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Title
Des. Erasmi Roterodami Purgatio aduersus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Pvrgatio aduersus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Purgatio aduersus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri
Varying form of title
Des. Erasmi Roterodami Pvrgatio aduersus epistolam non sobriam Martini Luteri
Imprint
Basileae : In Officina Frobeniana, An. M D XXXIIII mense Aprili. [1534]
Physical description
[64] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Note
Signatures: A-D⁸.
Note
Printer's device on title page and on verso of final leaf.
Note
Space left for decorated initial on leaf A2r, with guide letter.
Note
Colophon on leaf D8r: "Basileae in Officina Frobeniana, per Hieronymum Frobenium et Nicolaum Episcopium An. M. D. XXXIIII Mense Aprili".
Citation/references note
Haeghe, Bibliotheca Erasmiana, I, p. 164
Citation/references note
CLC, E485
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), E42
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); (c) Apologia adversus rhapsodias calumniosarum querimoniarum Alberti Pii (Basel, 1531); (d) Dilutio eorum quae Iodocus Clithoueus scripsit adversus Declamationem suasoriam matrimonii ([Basel], 1532); (f) Adversus febricitantis cuiusdam libellum responsio (Basel, 1529).
Subject
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 Epistola non sobria.
Added entry--name
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546 Epistola non sobria.
Added entry--name
Froben, Hieronymus, 1501-1563 printer.
Added entry--name
Episcopius, Nicolaus, 1501-1564 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Officina Frobeniana printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
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