Lepida Lactantij Firmiani opera accurate graeco adiuncto castigata

Author: Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus

Publisher: Petit, Jean

Published: Paris

Publishing year: 1513

Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. "Lepida Lactantii Firmiani Opera accurate graeco adjuncto castigata, ejusdem Nephytomon, Carmina de Phoenice et Christi resurrectione. Jo.[annis] Chry.[sostomi] de Eucharistia sermo [interprete Hieronymo Donato]. Lau.[rentii] Val.[lae] sermo [de eucharistia]. Phil.[ippi Sidetesiensi] ad Theo.[dosium] adhortatio". Paris: Jean Petit, 1513. Printed by N. Desprez. 8vo. (10), CCXXV, (1) leaves. On the title page a printer's mark and the publisher's coat of arms, in the text numerous four- and seven-line initials engraved in iron. Contemporary embossed full-leather binding.

Binding scuffed, in spine repaired. Front pastedown is missing. Handwritten text (prayer) from the time on front flyleaf. Old notes in red ink in margins of several leaves. Brown stain in the first half of the book on the bottom of the leaves, on Fol. XVII-XXVII affecting the text. Old handwritten provenance (exlibris) on rear flyleaf: Jakub Sofian Vodňanský  (1545-1601; proper name Walkenberger, Czech clergyman, writer, poet, chaplain and parish priest).

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