Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes. Rubricae primi libri incipient.
Lactantius (c.240-c.320)
Category
Books
Date
1479
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094715
Summary
Bibliographic description
[214] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6952. Issue with colophon reading "impresserunt" and "socii". Imperfect: wanting blank leaves a1 and [rum]10. Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red on leaves a2r-a7v, left blank thereafter. With contemporary late fifteenth-century or early sixteenth-century manuscript marginal annotations on many leaves, very faint, presumably washed-out and erased. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border; gilt roll on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with brown leather title label 'Lactantius' and gilt place/date of imprint lettered directly onto spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lactantius (c.240-c.320), author Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c.540-c.600) Bishop of Poitiers , author Adamus de Montaldo (fl.1480), author Antonio, da Rho, author Bonino Bonini (ca. 1450-1528), printer Andreas de Paltasichis (fl. 1476-1493), printer