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.
BEIN ZZi 07: Bled, with two of the pages mostly cut away; holed, with some damage to text; apparently removed from a binding. and Proofsheet of eight pages. Unrecorded or unpublished edition (Kunne's type 71)?
Index catalogi manuscriptorum in bibliotheca Medio-Montana.
Description:
Caption title: Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum, in bibliotheca Medio Montana d. Thomas Phillipps. Ab. no. 1824 ad 1837., Irregularities in pagination: 32*, 33*, and 373* inserted, also 2 p. (213 and 214) 296 numbered 996; no. 327 duplicated and 328 omitted., Running title: Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Phillippica., Some pages supplied in photostat, and also some pages which do not appear to have belonged to the original text, inserted, resulting in irregularities in paging at the beginning and at the end of the volume., and The original was issued in four parts, and contains 23,837 numbers. Phillipps began printing his catalogue in 1824, and published a reprint of the first portion in 1837.