Shelfmark
Fh.4.05
Author
Title
C. Sollij Sidonij Apollinaris Auernorum Episcopi, uiri, ob elegantiorum literarum studium, & humanarum diuinarumq[ue] rerum scientiam, primo inter summos autores loco à doctissimis meritò iudicati, Lucubrationes, liberalium literarum studiosis cognoscendæ & iterum atq[ue] iterum repetend[a]e, linguam enim, mentem & ingeniu[m] locupletabu[n]t, ornabunt, & acue[n]t. Item Ioannis Baptistae Pii commentaria quae impedita expediunt, & obscura reconditaq[ue] in lucem proferunt. Versa pagina librorum titulos indicabit.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Lucubrationes
Varying form of title
C. Sollii Sidonii Apollinaris Auernorum Episcopi, uiri, ob elegantiorum literarum studium, & humanarum diuinarumq[ue] rerum scientiam, primo inter summos autores loco à doctissimis meritò iudicati, Lucubrationes
Publication, distribution, etc.
Basileae. : Excudebat Henricus Petrus,, Mense Martio, Anno M.D.XLII. [1542]
Physical description
[24], 494, [2] p. ; 20 cm. (4to)
Note
Printer's name and date of publication from colophon.
Note
Printer's device on verso of final leaf.
Note
One of two issues of this work published in Basel in 1542 (see Adams S1080/S1081). In this issue second line of title ends "Apollinaris A-" and leaf a3 is correctly signed; in another issue, second line of title ends "Apollinaris" and leaf a3 is missigned a2.
Note
Signatures: a-c⁴ A-3Q⁴.
Note
Title enclosed in a decorative woodcut border.
Note
Errata on leaf c4r.
Note
Woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
Adams, S1080
Provenance
Ms. inscription on verso of title-page recording donation to Eton College Library by Henry Godolphin in 1731. Henry Godolphin (1648-1733) was at Eton College 1660-1664, became a Fellow in 1677, and Provost in 1695.
Provenance
Armorial binding of Jean Brinon, sieur de Villaines.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on t.p., partly obscuring place of publication.
Provenance
Ms. annotations on endpapers and marginalia including bibliographic references, attributed to Daniel Rogers in ECL card catalogue. See Van Dorsten, J.A. Poets, patrons, and professors : Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers and the Leiden humanists. (Leiden, 1962).
Binding
Contemporary 16th-century French binding of brown calf; border edges of gilt and blind fillets; inner frame of gilt and blind fillets with gold-tooled "devise" of Jean Brinon, sieur de Villaines, at the corners; front cover with gold-tooled armorial stamp in a roundel lettered "I · BRINON ·SR ·DE ·VILLAINES ·CO[N]SEIL ·DV ·ROY" and with gold-tooled title "C SOLL SIDON APOLLINARIS"; back cover with gold-tooled "devise" in a roundel lettered "ESPOIR ME TOURMENTE"; five raised bands and two half-bands, the latter with gilt hatching; gold-tooled leaf stamp in compartments; gilt text block edges.
Binding
For a similar binding see: Hobson, Anthony. Italian and French 16th-century bookbindings. New rev. ed., 1991, no. 37. See also: Ronsard : la trompette et la lyre. Exh. cat., Galerie Mansart, Paris, 1985, no. 33.
Subject
Armorial bindings. rbbin
Subject
Monogrammed bindings. rbbin
Subject
Tooled lettering. rbbin
Subject
Bindings. rbprov
Subject
Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.
Subject
Rome History Empire, 284-476.
Added entry--name
Petri, Heinrich, 1508 - 1579 printer.
Added entry--name
Pio, Giovanni Battista, ? - d. 1540 commentator.
Added entry--name
Brinon, Jean, approximately 1520 - 1555 former owner.
Added entry--name
Godolphin, Henry, 1648 - 1733 former owner.
Added entry--name
Rogers, Daniel, 1538? - 1591 former owner.
Added entry--place
Switzerland Basel.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B35439