Lot 581
Hieronymus
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Opera divi Hieronymi stridoniensis. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1578-79, large folio, volumes 1-5 (of 8), edited by Marianus Victorius, engraved frontispiece, additional general engraved title, printed titles with woodcut device, contemporary blindstamped vellum incorporating roll-tooled images of Fortitude, Faith and Charity, lacks one clasp, rather wormed at beginning and end, apparently bound without the dedication leaf
Footnote
Note Voet notes that the printer ommitted from some copies the first quire (8pp. including the dedicatory letter of Plantin to Archduke Mathias of Austria), as it was not likely to please the Spanish party. Voet. 33
Provenance: Bibliotheca Fratrum Minorum Recollectorum Conventus, inscription on title and half-title.