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De divinis institutionibus adversus gentes.

Accession number
PML 208
Creator
Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320.
Object title

De divinis institutionibus adversus gentes.

Published

Rostock : Fratres Domus Horti Viridis ad S. Michaelem, 9 April 1476.

Description

[205] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Lactancii Firmiani de divinis institutionibus adversus gentes rubrice primi libir incipiunt.
Colophon (leaf [20]/9r): Firmiani Lactancii viri p[re]cellentis ingenii qui vel solus inter [christ]iane p[ro]fessionis scriptores sup[er]eminet nitore quoda[m] et copia: vel nullum eo[rum] sequitur facundia simul et lenitate sermonu[m]. Divina[rum] institutionu[m] adversus gentes. De ira quoq[ue] dei ad Donatum. Necnon et de opificio dei vel formatione hominis ad Demetrianu[m] finiunt libri Per fratres presbiteros et cl[er]icos co[n]gregationis domus viridisorti ad s[an]c[tu]m Michaelem in opido Rostockcen[sis] p[er]tium inferioris Sclavie. p[ro]ut facultas et industria tulit emendate satis et accurate [con]summati. Anno incarnationis dominice. Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo septuagesimosexto. Quinto Idus Aprilis. Deo Gratias.
Printed in type 1:90G.
Collation: [1¹²; 2-9¹⁰ 10¹³ (12+1: ante preponi); 11-20¹⁰]: 205 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [20]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 19.9 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (29.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Bischöflicher Meister workshop in Bamberg (also known as Bamberg Karmeliterkloster 1. Gruppe, EBDB w000075/Kyriss 5), active ca. 1463-1479; repaired by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns with vellum fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps, 1 wanting.
Variant title
Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, rubrics, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: Headlines throughout; several contemporary title inscriptions (front pastedown and leaf [1]/1r). Marginal notations in several hands. Quotations from Juvenal's satires, "Non modo vir talis ut Persius et Juvenalis..." and Martial's epigrams, "Cor solus habes solus et ingenium..." and Roman 6:23, "Stipendia peccati mors."
Provenance
Hornberger(?), purchase inscription: Emptus Quinq[ue] libris Hornberge (leaf [1]/1r); Alexander Mayr, inscription: Hunc librum emit Alexander Maÿr magister hospitalis Anno 53, 1553 (leaf [1]/1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: d/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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