Accession number
PML 125146.3
Creator
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, 2nd cent.
Published
[Heidelberg?] : Apud Petrum Santandreanum [i.e. Jerome Commelin?], 1583.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
Adams' printer index shows Petrus Santandreanus as active simultaneously in Lyon and Geneva, also showing an Officina Santandreana in Heidelberg. However, Baudrier's Bibliographie lyonnaise is silent about the name, as is Benzing, who exhaustively covers German and Swiss printers. BLC assigns this book to Heidelberg as does Adams V592 (though the index, v. 2, p. 672, assigns it to the Lyon shop). The t.p. device is the same as Jerome Commelin's device illustrated in Bigmore & Wyman's A bibliography of printing, v. 1, p. 142 (though not the identical block). Commelin was in Heidelberg at this time, having worked until 1587 in the Geneva shop of his relative Petrus Santandreanus, from which apparently arose his custom of imprinting some of his Heidelberg books "Ex Officina Santandreana."
Includes indexes.
The works of Verrius Flaccus are lost, save for quotations and references to his thought preserved in the writings of others such as Festus and Paulus Diaconus.
Includes indexes.
The works of Verrius Flaccus are lost, save for quotations and references to his thought preserved in the writings of others such as Festus and Paulus Diaconus.
Description
196, [19], 62 p. ; 18 cm (8vo)
Provenance
From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary parchment over paper wrapper with yapped fore-edge cover extensions; manuscript on spine; evidence of paper spine label and two pairs of fore-edge ties; paper wrapper visible due to damage.
Classification
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