Ioannes Frobenius candido lectori S. D. en Nouum Testamentum, ex Erasmi Roterodami recognitione, iam quartum damus studiose lector, adiecta uulgata translatione, quo protinus ipsis oculis conferre possis, quid conueniat quid dissideat. Hic non sine graui tedio nostro, tibi tediu[m] ademimus. Adiecta est Pauli peregrinatio Latina, cum praefatione Chrysostomi, in omnes epistolas Pauli. In annotationibus praeterquam quod autor exactiora reddidit omnia, magnam accessionem adiunxit ex Graecorum uoluminibus eq[ue] uetustissimis exemplaribus Latinis, quae nuper est nactus. Cuius in recognoscendo summa[m] diligentiam, nos in excudendo sumus imitati. Si proxima aeditio satiffecit, fatebe ris hic Frobenium à Frobenio superatum. Accessit & locorum annotatu dignorum index non aspernandus. Fruere, notrisq[ue] conatibus faue.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Category
Books
Date
1527
Materials
Place of origin
Basel
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3154650
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 545, [3] p. ; fol. Former shelfmarks: 31.f.13, 6.f.2, 16.f.19, 17.f.15. Running number: 2733. Provenance: manuscript inscription on title page: "Bibliothecae S. Augustini Wesaliae" [i.e. from the library of the Church of St Augustine in Wesel, possibly the Willibrordi Cathedral]. Extensive marginal manuscript notes in sixteenth-century hand on pp. 47-48. Binding: seventeenth-century vellum; single blind fillet border; blind decorative centrepiece stamp; pair of holes in each board for ties (missing). Rebacked in calf, with gilt title on green morocco label, and date stamped in gilt directly onto spine. Manuscript fore-edge title: "Eras in N: Tes:".
Makers and roles
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Johann Froben (d.1527)