Shelfmark
Fh.1.01
Author
Cyprian Saint, Bishop of Carthage.
Collective uniform title
Works. 1682
Title
Sancti Cæcilii Cypriani Opera recognita & illustrata per Joannem Oxoniensem episcopum. Accedunt Annales Cyprianici, sive tredecim annorum, quibus S. Cyprianus inter Christianos versatus est, brevis historia chronologice delineata per Joannem Cestriensem.
Varying form of title
Sancti Caecilii Cypriani Opera
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opera
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno MDCLXXXII. [1682]
Physical description
[8], 14 [i.e. 18], [38], [16], [2], 14, 17-72, 244, 126, 119-120, 129-240, 40, 56, 59-110, 72, [4], 118, 37, [17] p., [1] leaf of plates (frontis.) : ill., tables ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Note
Some sections of text printed in double columns.
Note
Engraved head-piece; woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
Note
Some copies lack the "Index in Sancti Cypriani Epistolas et tractatus", placed after the second unpaginated sequence; unpaginated, with signatures aa-dd².
Note
Engraved title-page vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre.
Note
Edited by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford; the Annales Cyprianici edited by John Pearson, Bishop of Chester. Pearson was a Scholar at Eton from 1623 to 1631.
Note
Text and signatures of each register continuous despite pagination.
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Frontis. plate signed: Sonmans delineavit. Burghers sculp.
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In eight sections, each beginning new pagination and register.
Note
Signatures: [section symbol]⁴ a-f², ²a-h² aa-dd² (a)-(i)⁴, A-Z⁴ Aa-Gg⁴ Hh² Aaa-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Gggg⁴, ²Aaaa[a]-Eeeee⁴ Aaaaaa-Nnnnnn⁴ Oooooo² Aaaaaaa-Sssssss² (signature complete to 72 p. sequence).
Note
Page 18 (first grouping) misnumbered "14".
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C7711
Citation/references note
ESTC, R18885
Provenance
Ms. inscription on title-page: "Ex dono Edm: Whitfield Socij. 1693". Edmund Whitfield was K.S. at Eton from 1663, and became a Fellow in 1691, died 1693/4. See Sterry, Eton College Register, p. 363. Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on t.p. verso.
Binding
17th-century English sprinkled brown calf; blind double fillet to form a border; blind-tooled inner frame formed of a roll with outer corner fleurons; six blind roll-tooled raised bands; brown morocco spine label.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: Lacking all after 72 p. sequence except final [16] p. index, leaves aa1-dd2, which are misbound after leaf h2 in the preliminary [40] p. sequence.
Copy-specific note
Previously Ai.1.07.
Subject
Cyprian Saint, Bishop of Carthage.
Subject
Theology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Theology Early church, ca. 30-600.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Fell, John, 1625 - 1686 editor.
Added entry--name
Sonmans, William, ? - -1708 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Burghers, Michael, 1647 or 1648 - 1727 engraver.
Added entry--name
Whitfield, Edmund former owner.
Added entry--name
Sheldonian Theatre printer.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B35267