Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX., Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431., Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio., and Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).
General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
General editor, Benedictus Arias Montanus. and The second of the great polyglots; known as the Antwerp, or Plantin's polyglot, otherwise the Royal polyglot.
"Loyal" ed. with added engr. t.-p., but without the dedication., Red inked line borders throughout., and Vol. 2-5 have half-titles only; vol. 6 has special t.-p.
Binding: comtemporary half pigskin over wooden boards, remains of a single fore-edge clasp; pastedowns from a 13th-century vellum Homiliary., Bought Nov. 11 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: De disciplina scholarium. Colonia : Impressus in domo Henrici Que[n]tell ..., 1498 mensis die quinta -- Catonis disticha. [Cologne] : Impresse ... M.cccc.xcvi p[er] Henricum Quentell in Colonia, [1496]., Printer and date from colophon., Provenance: "F. Georgius Schmaller de Ratispona Ordinis predicatoru[m] 1549" (ms. on p. [1]); "Co[n]ue[n]tus Fra[n]ckford. Ord. p[re]dicator[um]" (ms. on p. [13]); "Ex libris Estelle Doheny" (bookplate on front pastedown)., Rubricated in red: initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes; copious interlinear and marginal notes in an unidentified hand., and Text surrounded by commentary by Thomas Wallensis.
Publisher:
Per Henricum Quentell ...,
Subject (Name):
Doheny, Estelle,--1875-1958--Bookplate., Dominikanerkloster Frankfurt am Main Inscription, 1549., and Schaller, Georgius--Inscription.
Subject (Topic):
Happiness., Incunabula in Yale Library., and Philosophy and religion.