Gl.2.03
Council of Constance (1414-1418 : Konstanz, Germany)
Costnitzer Concilium so gehalten worden im Jar tausend vier hundert und dreytzehen, auffs neue zugerichtet... .
Franckfurt am Mayn : [durch Paul Reffeler in verlegung Sigmund Feyerabend], anno M. D. LXXV. [1575].
[4] 206 [1] leaves : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm. (Fol.)
Title page printed in red and black.
Includes title page vignette, tail-pieces; decorated initials.
Some mispagination (e.g. leaf 9 is marked 7, leaf 59 is marked 159, leaf 60 is marked 69, etc.).
Imprint information from colophon.
Signatures: )(⁴ A-Z⁴ a-z⁴ 2A-2F⁴ (-2F4).
USTC, 625669
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Bookplate of Wilbraham Egerton, showing a lion holding an arrow, on front pastedown.
?18th/19th-century polished calfskin over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with blind triple fillets to form a border (line in the middle being thicker than the outer ones) with blind tools at the inner corners; blind roll on board edges and turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with blind tools, fillets and gilt titling over red morocco label ("Handlung dess conciliums zu Costentz."; "Francof 1575."). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Bookseller's ms. notes on front flyleaves.
Early modern ms. note on title page: "Loci ?Capucinorum Ratisbonae".
Former ECL shelfmark: DDk.3.12.
Illustrations often hand-coloured.
Council of Constance (1414-1418 : Konstanz, Germany) Early works to 1800.
Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528 - 1590 bookseller.
Reffeler, Paul, active 1563 - 1585 printer.
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Egerton, Wilbraham Egerton, 1832 - 1909 Earl, former owner.
Germany Frankfurt am Main.
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B51463