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De duplici copia verborum ac rerum / D. Erasmi Roterdami, commentarii duo.

Accession number
PML 125069
Creator
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
Published
Paris : Simonem Colinaeum, 1539.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Description
391, [11] pages ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Book curse on lower flyleaf reads: "Hic nomen meum pono quia Librum perdere nolo et si Librum perdere vellem meum nomen non posser[?] / Franciscus Ramey de Suny [sic]." "fais pad moy benais joulorbe" [sic] inscribed on title page. Contemporary annotations throughout first third of text and on upper and lower flyleaves. Unidentified inscriptions inside upper and lower covers and on flyleaves.
Provenance
"Johannis Ren[?] me habet" inscription inside upper cover. "Johannis [?]" inscription on title page, heavily obscured. Inscribed by Franciscus Ramey de Suny [sic] on lower flyleaf. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cen. France).
Binding
Contemporary leather (calf?) over paperboards, blind and gold tooled; manuscript waste; evidence of paper spine label; edges colored yellow.
Classification
Department