Author
Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, -approximately 450
Title
Vincentii Lirinensis Galli Pro Catholicæ fidei antiquitate & veritate, : aduersus prophanas omnium hæreseon nouationes, liber elegantissimus. ante annos mille ab authore conscriptus. Additum est breue commentariolum, per Ioannem Costerium, in eorum potissimu[m] gratiam, qui in diuinis literis minus exercitati sunt..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Pro Catholicae fidei antiquitate & veritate
Varying form of title
Pro Catholicae fidei antiquitate et veritate
Varying form of title
Running title: Vincentii Adverus Haeres.
Imprint
Coloniae : apud hæredes Arnoldi Birckma[n]ni,, 1560..
Physical description
[216] p. ; 12 cm (24mo)
Note
Signatures: A-I12. Final two leaves blank.
Note
Woodcut initials.
Note
Commentary by Joannes Costerius begins on leaf G4r.
Note
Unpaginated.
Citation/references note
CLC, V570
Citation/references note
VD16, ZV 19775
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), V28
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark (F18 or P18). Guest's binding instructions are at the foot of the title pages of each of the four items in this volume: "first", "second", "third", "last". This item has "last".
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (20th century) with design based on the Dean and Chapter seal, and inscription “Sarvm Cathedral Library.”
Binding
16th-century dark brown calf over paper boards; sewn on three tawed leather supports; boards decorated with blind fillets forming rectangular frame towards perimeter of boards, and with blind ornament at centre of boards; spine with three raised bands; printed waste (English) used as endleaves; parchment manuscript waste used as endleaf guards; evidence of two pairs of ties at fore-edge.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: (a) Benedictus Aretius, Examen theologicum (Geneva, 1570); (b) Johannes Cochlaeus, Aduersus Lutheri articulos (Paris, 1562); and (c) R. Ceneau, Antidotum ad postulata (Paris, 1549).
Copy-specific note
Some leaves are unopened.
Subject
Christian heresies History Early church, ca. 30-600.
Subject
Theology Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Costerius, Joannes, 1515-1559 commentator.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--name
Arnold Birckmanns Erben bookseller.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
B14065
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