Author
Orosius, Paulus
Uniform title
Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII
Title
Pauli Orosii Hispani viri doctiss. Aduersus paganos historiarum libri septem. : Nunc demum ab innumeris ijsq[ue] fœdissimis ac horrendis mendo[rum] monstris uindicati, ad multorumq[ue] ueterum exemplariorum fidem, sedulo restituti..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Aduersus paganos historiarum libri septem
Varying form of title
Adversvs paganos historiarvm libri septem
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Adversus paganos historiarum libri septem
Varying form of title
Pauli Orosii Hispani viri doctiss. Adversvs paganos historiarvm libri septem
Imprint
[Cologne] : Eucharius Ceruicornus excudebat,, Anno M. D. XXVI. [1526]
Physical description
[20], 124 [i.e. 142], [2] p. ; 30 cm (fol)
Note
Signatures: A6 B4 a-m6.
Note
Final leaf blank.
Note
Title and page 1 within decorative woodcut borders; woodcut head-pieces and initials.
Note
Page 142 mis-numbered 124.
Note
With index.
Note
Place of printing from colophon on page 124 [i.e. 142]: "Impensa & ære M. Godefridi Hydorpij ciuis Coloniensis, mense Iunio.
Citation/references note
Adams, O300
Citation/references note
CLC, O212
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), *O5
Provenance
There are no provenance inscriptions on the pages of this work; however, provenance inscriptions appear in the two other works with which this is bound. The names include: "Thomas", "Willia[m]", and "hugonem Jons" in the first item (Herodotus), and "Hue Jon[...?]", "Octogranj Newton[is] [?]", and "Will[ia]]m Blithman" in the third item (Thucydides).
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Provenance
David Selwyn suggests, on binding evidence, that the volume may "just possibly" have been owned by Edmund Guest.
Binding
Early 16th-century brown calf over bevelled wooden boards; sewn on four supports; blind rolls on boards forming a rectangular frame enclosing a lattice pattern of blind fillets filled with blind stamps ("pineapple" stamps); spine with four raised bands and later gilt fillets; spine label with "Herodotus"; "1524" in gilt at tail of spine; remains of clasps at fore-edge; new endleaves.
Copy-specific note
Occasional manuscript marginal annotations.
Copy-specific note
Bound with Herodotus, Libri nouem musarum nominibus inscriptsit (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1526) and Thucydides, De Bello Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque libri VIII (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1527).
Subject
World history Early works to 1800.
Subject
History, ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pelagianism Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Cervicornus, Eucharius, active 1516-1547 printer.
Added entry--name
Hittorp, Gottfried, 1490-1573 publisher.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 associated name.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
B9506
UKSbSC
20231018160403.9