Shelfmark
Fg.4.05 - Fg.4.06
Author
Bede, 673 - 735 the Venerable, Saint,
Collective uniform title
Works. 1612
Title
Venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri Anglo-Saxonis viri sua ætate doctissimi, Opera quotquot reperiri potuerunt omnia:.
Varying form of title
Venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri Anglo-Saxonis viri sua aetate doctissimi, Opera quotquot reperiri potuerunt omnia
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opera quotquot reperiri potuerunt omnia
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Venerabilis Bedea Opera
Edition
Hac vltima impressione ornatius in lucem edita.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Coloniæ Agrippinæ : Sumptibus Anton. Hierati et Ioan. Gymnici., anno MDCXII. [1612]
Physical description
8 v. in 2 : ill., music ; 38 cm. (fol.)
Note
Volume 1 has an engraved title-page (signed "P. Isselb. sculp."), including panorama of Cologne, and letterpress half-title reading "Venerabilis Bedae Opera.".
Note
Volumes 2-8 have letterpress title-pages reading "Venerabilis Bedae ... Operum tomus secundus[-octauus]; ...", with woodcut printer's device.
Note
Pagination: t. 1: [12] p., 452 columns, [1] p. -- t. 2: [2], 238 p. -- t. 3: [4], 500 columns, [2] p. (last leaf blank) -- t. 4: [4] p., 916 columns, [1] p. -- t. 5: [2] p., 816 columns -- t. 6: [2] p., 852 columns -- t. 7: [4] p., 486 columns, [1] p. -- t. 8: [4] p., 968 columns, [112] p. (last leaf blank).
Note
Principally printed in double columns.
Note
Head- and tail- pieces and initials.
Formatted contents note
Contents: v. 1. Cunabula grammaticae artes Donati [et alia scripta de artibus grammatica, arithmetica, musica, et astronomica]. -- v. 2. Continens philosophica, necnon eorum, quae ad artes excellentiores praeciptuè faciunt, miras quasdam & subtiles explicationes: eorundem index versa pagella apparet. -- v. 3. Continens historica, vitas aliquot sanctorum, ac collectanea quaedam, quorum catalogum versa pagina docet. -- v. 4. Continens commentarios in Vetus Testamentum, quorum ordo tertia pagina docetur. -- v. 5. Continens in sacrosancta quatuor Evangelia, & alios Novi Testamenti libros, pias & breves expositiones: quarum seriem versa pagina exhibet. -- v. 6. Continens in divi Pauli scripta, interpretationes luculentas: catalogum vero ipsarum, versa pagina tibi monstrabit. -- v. 7. In quo conciones & scripta continentur, quae ad populum instruendum, piorumque animos excitandos multum faciunt: eorum vero catalogus, pagella tertia habetur. -- v. 8. Continens questiones aliquot elegantissimas veteris Testamenti, una cum doctissimo in Psalmos Davidicos commentario recens invento: quorum omnium catalogum versa pagella demonstrat.
Citation/references note
BM STC German, 1601-1700, B588
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1754.
Binding
17th-century sprinkled brown calf; two blind fillets to form a border; six raised bands; red morocco spine-label.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations on endpapers; vol 1 with ms. price on guard in 17th-century hand: "2 vol. at 1.5.0".
Copy-specific note
Previously: Dd.2.13-Dd.2.14.
Subject
Anglo-Saxons Early works to 1800.
Subject
England Church history Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hierat, Anton, active 1597 - 1627 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B9184