Accession number
PML 30726-45
Creator
La Bigne, Marguerin de, 1546?-1590?
Published
Parisiis : Sumptibus Aegidij Morelli architypographi regij, 1644.
Credit line
Purchased in 1934.
Notes
Title page printed in black and red, with Morel's engraved printer's mark.
Cataloging based on v. 13.
Translation of title: Great library of the old fathers and ancient church writings, which for the first time [are collected] by Marguerin de La Bigne, now with a true addition of about two hundred authors, such as [the writings] of the Greeks which are lacking from the colonial edition and [the writings] of the Romans which are lacking in the Paris [editions], enriched, accurately emended, and distributed in 17 volumes.
Cataloging based on v. 13.
Translation of title: Great library of the old fathers and ancient church writings, which for the first time [are collected] by Marguerin de La Bigne, now with a true addition of about two hundred authors, such as [the writings] of the Greeks which are lacking from the colonial edition and [the writings] of the Romans which are lacking in the Paris [editions], enriched, accurately emended, and distributed in 17 volumes.
Description
18 volumes in 20 ; 38 cm (fol)
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Leo Olschki, Sept. 1934.
Binding
17th-century French brown calf with gilt-tooled centerpiece.
Classification
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