Author
Altenstaig, Johann, -approximately 1525
Title
Vocabularius theologie co[m]plecte[n]s vocabulo[rum] descriptio[n]es, diffinitio[n]es [et] significatus ad theologiam vtilium: : [et] alia quibus prude[n]s [et] diligens lector multa abstrusa [et] obsura theologo[rum] dicta [et] dissoluere [et] rationu[m] [et] argume[n]to[rum] difficilies nodos: [et] facile ea q[ue] in duce[m] [et] principe[m] sententia[rum] doctores scripseru[n]t intelligere poterit / magno cu[m] labore [et] dilige[n]tia compilata a Joanne Altenstaig Mindelhaimensi, sacre scripture vero amatore. Distichon Henrici Bebelij in Vocabularium Ioannis Altenstaig Vindelici. Cuncta theologiæ iam disce vocabula lector donat Ioannes hæc tibi Vindelicus. Ioannis Weber Weyssenhorensis Distichon. Insita codicibus diuersa vocabula sacris qui nouisse cupit consulat istud opus..
Varying form of title
Vocabularius theologie complectens vocabulorum descriptiones, diffinitiones et significatus ad theologiam vtilium
Imprint
[Hagenau] : In officinia industrij Henrici Gran ciuis imp[er]ialis oppidi Hagenaw: impe[n]sis sumptib[usque] p[ro]uidi ac circu[m]specti viri Joa[n]nis Rynman ... , M. d.xvij. die. xiii. mensis. Dece[m]bris. [13 December 1517]
Physical description
[4], CCLXXVII leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Note
Imprint from colophon on recto of leaf Z5.
Note
Signatures: [pi]⁴ a⁸ b-z⁶, A-Z⁶ (-Z6).
Note
Title page printed in red and black, enclosed within decorative woodcut border.
Note
Woodcut initials; text printed in double columns.
Citation/references note
Adams, A813
Citation/references note
VD 16, A1992
Citation/references note
BM STC German, 1455-1600, 22
Citation/references note
CLC, A540
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), A25
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), on the basis of Guest's pressmark on the fore-edge: M38. Selwyn notes that there are marginal notes in the hand of a former owner.
Binding
16th-century brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked and repaired in March 1941; sewn on four supports; blind rolls and fillets forming rectangular frame with intersecting lines, and central panel in lozenge pattern with "pineapple" stamps; spine with four raised bands; evidence of clasps; "Vocabularis J Altenstaig" in gilt on spine; title and pressmark in ink on fore-edge.
Subject
Theology Dictionaries Latin Early works to 1800.
Subject
Latin language, Medieval and modern Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bebel, Heinrich, 1472-1518
Added entry--name
Gran, Henri, -1527 printer.
Added entry--name
Rynman, Johann, active 1497-1522 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
Germany Hagenau.
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