Details

Subject(s)

• World history—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Apologetics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• History, Ancient [Browse]
• Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 [Browse]

Editor

• Volpi, Enea, active 15th century [Browse]

Printer

• Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498 [Browse]

Former owner

• Ketchum, Silas, 1835-1880 [Browse]
• New Hampshire Antiquarian Society [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Incunabula [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including Lactantii Firmiani De diuinis institutionibus libri septem : eiusdem de Ira dei ad Donatu[m] ; De opificio dei & formatione hominis ad Demetrianu[m] ; Carmina eiusdem de foenice & de die resurrectio[n]is dominicae ; Nephitomon eiusde[m] ; Ite[m] Tertuliani Apologeticus aduersus ge[n]tes perqua[m] diligentissime castigati ac nuper impressi and 1 other(s).

Notes

• Caption title, leaf a2.
• Imprint from colophon (leaf n4r): Pauli Orosii viri clarissimi Ad Aurelium Augustinum episcopum & doctorem eximiu[m] libri septimi ac ultimi Finis. Impressi Venetiis: opera & expensis Octaviani scoti Modoetiensis. Anno ab incarnatione domini .M.cccc.lxxxiii. Tertio Kalends sextilis. Ioanne Mocenico inclito Venetiarum duce.
• Edited by Aeneas Vulpes.
• Signatures: a⁸ b-m⁶ n⁴: 78 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
• Chancery folio. Type 6:106R. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
• Register at colophon.

With

With: Lactantii Firmiani De diuinis institutionibus libri septem ... [Venice] : [Boneto Locatelli, for Ottaviano Scotto], [11 October 1494]

Binding note

HSVR copy: Bound in contemporary south German calf over wooden boards at the Augustinian monastery in Nuremberg.

Provenance

• HSVR copy: Extensive contemporary Latin marginalia in red in German hands, ca. 1500.
• HSVR copy: Bookplate of Silas Ketchum, Hopkinton, N.H.; later bookplate:"This volume is deposited with the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society by Rev. Silas Ketchum ... 1875."

References

• Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, O-98
• Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 12102*
• Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 12102
• Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M28408
• Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 5, page 278 (IB. 21196)
• Incunabula short title catalog, io00098000
• John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress). The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress, 327

Place name(s)

Italy Venice.

Title from ISTC

• Historiae adversus paganos

At head of title

• Liber primus

In

Multi-title collection including Lactantii Firmiani De diuinis institutionibus libri septem : eiusdem de Ira dei ad Donatu[m] ; De opificio dei & formatione hominis ad Demetrianu[m] ; Carmina eiusdem de foenice & de die resurrectio[n]is dominicae ; Nephitomon eiusde[m] ; Ite[m] Tertuliani Apologeticus aduersus ge[n]tes perqua[m] diligentissime castigati ac nuper impressi and 1 other(s).

LCCN

2016656181

OCLC

32674074

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