Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus.

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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Description

Opera (edited by Joannes Andreae). Venice: Simon Bevilacqua, 4 April 1497

Chancery folio (294 x 204mm.), 139 leaves (of 140, without initial blank), 45 lines and headline, Roman letter with Greek quotations, initial spaces, some with printed guides, a few white-on-black woodcut initials, later vellum, early manuscript notes in margins and on final blank leaf, a few light damp-stains, some manuscript notes cropped

Provenance

Bishop Henry Phillpotts of Exeter, bookplate recording gift to the diocese of Cornwall, 1866; BIshop Phillpotts' Library, Truro, bookplate

Literature

H 9818; BMC v 522; Goff L13

Catalogue Note

A reprint of the 1493 edition by Vincentius Benalius (Goff L11). This copy is signed by a member of the Inquisition, Fray Miguel Suarez(?), on 13 January 1614.