Shelfmark
Fg.3.01 - Fg.3.02
Author
Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan,
Collective uniform title
Works 1567
Title
Omnia quotquot extant D. Ambrosij Episcopi Mediolanensis opera, primum per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum, mox per Sig. Gelenium, deinde per alios eruditos uiros diligenter castigata: nunc uerò postremùm per Ioannem Costerium, ad plurium antiquorum codicum collatione[m], plus bis mille erroribus sublatis, præter integros uersus pluribus locis desideratos, quos nunc adiecit, ita emendata, ut superioribus editionibus, ubicunq[ue] gentium euulgatis, longè præstare æquus lector, si uel unicum tantùm librum cum superioribus impressionibus contulerit, facile dijudicet. Quæ singulis tomis contineantur, cùm catalogus eorum post uitam D. Ambrosij succedens, tum epistolæ Erasmi, cuilibet sectioni seorsum præmissæ docebunt. Index geminus sub finem operis, adiectus est foecundissimus.
Varying form of title
Omnia quotquot extant D. Ambrosii Episcopi Mediolanensis opera
Varying form of title
Omnia qvotqvot extant D. Ambrosii Episcopi Mediolanensis opera
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae, : Per Eusebium Episcopium, et Haeredes Nicolai Episcopij., M.D.LXVII. [1567]
Physical description
5 pts. in 2 v. ([48], 176; 191, [1]; 366, [2]; 766, [2]; 455, [145] p.) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Note
Printer's name from colophon at end of pt. 5: 'Basileae, Per Eusebium Episcopium, et Haeredes Nicolai Episcopii. Anno salutis humanae M. D. LXVII.'. Colophon at end of pts. 3 and 4 varies slightly.
Note
Parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 each have separate title page: pts. 2-3: 'Secundus[-Tertius] tomus diui Ambrosij operum, ...'; pts. 4-5: 'Quartus[-Quintus] tomus divi Ambrosii, Mediolanensis Episcopi, operum, ...'.
Note
Woodcut printer's devices on title-pages of each volume and last pages of pts. 3-5.
Note
Woodcut initials; printed marginal notes.
Citation/references note
Adams, A942
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
16th-century brown calf over bevelled wooden boards; inner frame of three bands, the two outermost composed of a crested roll with Tudor emblems (crown, pomegranate, daisy, portcullis, pomegranate, rose: cf. Oldham EBSB Tca(3) no. 914, used twice) and the innermost composed of a roll with half-length figures ("VENVS" holding an apple, "IVNO", "PALLAS" and "PARIS", the panel with Pallas dated 1539); outer and inner borders of blind fillets joined at corners; remains of two pairs of brass clasps; five raised bands; black morocco spine-label in top compartment.
Binding
The roll with Tudor emblems is English, but the roll with figures is German; cf. Haebler. Rollen- und Plattenstempel des XVI. Jahrhunderts, II, p. 13 no. 3.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Fa.1.15-Fa.1.16.
Subject
Theology Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Gelen, Sigmund, 1497 - 1554 editor.
Added entry--name
Erasmus, Desiderius, ? - d. 1536 editor.
Added entry--name
Coster, Joannes editor.
Added entry--name
Episcopius, Eusebius, 1540 - 1599 printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--name
Haeredes Nicolai Episcopii printer.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B33270