Shelfmark
Fg.4.11
Author
Collective uniform title
Works. 1584
Title
Q. Septimij Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginiensis presbyteri, Opera quæ hactenus reperiri potuerunt omnia. Iam postremùm, ad exemplaria manuscripta collatione facta, quamaccuratiss. recognita, aliquot etiam libris auctiora; nunc primùm in capita, & certo ordine, habita quantum fieri potuit temporum ratione, in quinque tomos distincta. Cum Iacobi Pamelij Brugensis, theologi, Archidiaconi Audomaropolitani, argumentis & adnotationibus toti operi interiectis; quibus tum loci obscuriores explicantur, tum quidquid ad antiquitatem ecclesiasticam spectat, illustratur. Ab eodem Pamelio recèns adiecta; Tertulliani vita; scripturarum citatarum index locupletiss. aliáque prolegomena. Catalogum totius operis inueniet lector post epistolas dedicatorias; & in singulis tomis praefatiunculas de librorum ordine.
Varying form of title
Q. Septimii Florentis Tertvlliani Carthaginiensis presbyteri, Opera
Varying form of title
Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginiensis presbyteri, Opera
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opera
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Apud Michaelem Sonnium, via Iacobæa, sub scuto Basiliensi., M.D.LXXXIIII. [1584]
Physical description
209, [3], 1278 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. (port.) ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Note
The privilege (p. [210], 1st count) is granted to Michel Sonnius in Paris, & following it is the statement "Acheué d'imprimer au mois de iuillet, 1583".
Note
Another issue has the imprint of Christophorus Plantinus in Antwerp (cf. Adams, T415).
Note
Also issued with imprint date 1583 (cf. Ruelens-De Backer p. 253).
Note
Each of the five tomes into which the work is divided has divisional half-title; pagination and register continuous throughout.
Note
Signatures: [alpha]-[lamda]⁶ [mu]⁸ [nu]-pi]⁶ [rho]⁸ A-P⁶ Q⁴ R-Z⁶ Aa-Hh⁶ Ii⁸ (Ii8 blank) Kk-Zz⁶ AA-ZZ⁶ AAa-RRr⁶ SSs⁸ (SSs8 blank) TTt-ZZz⁶ AAA-NNN⁶ OOO⁶.
Note
Printer's device with motto "Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos" on title page.
Note
Woodcut medallion portrait of the author on leaf [rho]8v.
Note
Head-pieces, initials, marginal notes.
Citation/references note
Adams, T415
Provenance
Bought 1596/7 for £0.25.0. (Audit accounts; see also Birley, Notes on bindings in College Library I, 18).
Binding
16th-century brown calf binding; outer and inner borders formed of blind triple fillets joined at corners; inner frame composed of a single roll with compartments containing medallions with profile heads and renaissance ornaments; silver-tooled armorial stamp of Eton College on both covers; traces of brass clasps on front cover; chain holes; six raised bands; spine decoration formed of blind fillets with diapering at head and tail; red morocco spine-labels. See Oldham "English blind-stamped bindings", HMa(14), no. 783, for roll.
Copy-specific note
Previously Al.1.25.
Subject
Theology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Christian literature, Early Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Pamèle, Jacques de Joigny de, 1536 - 1587 Vita Tertulliani.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Sonnius, Michel, 1564 - 1630 printer.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B33355