Details

Publisher

• Macé, Jean, active 1533-1588 [Browse]

Printer

• Prévost, Fleury, active 1544-1572 [Browse]

Former owner

• Bar, François de, 1528-1606 [Browse]
• Abbaye d'Anchin (Pecquencourt, France) [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations (Provenance) [Browse]

Related work(s)

Benoit, René, 1521-1608. Stromata in universum organum. [Browse]

Notes

• The Stromata has a separate title page, dated 1564 and separate signatures.
• Printer's device appears on both title pages.
• The Prevost colophon, which is dated 1564, appears at the end of the New Testament.
• Contains the text of the latin Vulgate Bible.

Provenance

Ex copy: Copy owned and annotated by the Benedictine monk François de Bar (1528-1606) of the Abbey d'Anchin ("Ex bibliotheca aquicinctenis") with two autograph ex-libri, one on the titlepage of the Bible and the other, with the date 1569, on the titlepage of the Stromata by René Benoist. There are numerous notes in his hand in the margins and interlines, in a tiny humanist script, some in Greek and Hebrew. The annotations form a continuous commentary on those books where they are found (Genesis to Esdras II (Nehemiah) cap. viii (pp. 1-398) and Ecclesiasticus i-xxxi (pp.595-618)), and are based on a wide range of printed and other materials. There are many references to the Glossa ordinaria, and it is probable that the mentions of such writers as Cyril, Chrysostom, Nicolaus de Lyra come from that source, or in the last case possibly from one of the editions of the Bible with his commentary, as there are many, and quite detailed quotations. There are precise references also to St. Thomas Summa Theologica. But there are references too to much more recent works, e.g. the commentaries Genesis and Exodus by Luigi Lippomano, Bishop of Bergamo, published in Paris in the middle of the century (e.g. pp. 9, 37 and elsewhere). Lippomano's commentaries were published in 1546 and 1550. These immense volumes are themselves based on copious quotations from earlier commentaries, and for both Genesis (a huge volume of 434 leaves) and Exodus there are substantial quotations in Hebrew, which may themselves be mirrored in these manuscript annotations in this volume. The annotations in the present volume are undated but on p. 268 (end 2 Kings) there is a date -19th June 1581. This seems to be an indication of the date at which this point had been reached.

References

Adams B1068

OCLC

230621114

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