L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani, Diuinarum Institutionum libri VII. De ira Dei, lib. I. De opificio Dei, lib. I. Epitome in libros suos, liber acephalus. Carmen de Phœnice: de Resurrectione dominca: de Passione domini.
Lactantius (c.240-c.320)
Category
Books
Date
1613
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3160965
Summary
Bibliographic description
785, [47] p. ; 16mo.? Manuscript note on plain paper spine support: Lidd. Augt. 23. 93 [i.e. 1693. Possibly in Geoffrey Gilbert’s hand]. Small pencil notes against text throughout; mainly Xs and Is, with the odd small fist. Provenance: manuscript inscription on flyleaf: Jeff: Gilbert: 1710: [i.e. Sir Geoffrey Gilbert (1674-1726), Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, whose library was sold at auction in Gray's Inn in 1728]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf over boards on three alum-tawed thongs, triple blind fillet on covers, blind dotted roll on board edges, red sprinkled edges. Spine label missing. Printer's waste used as spine support and loose pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Lactantius (c.240-c.320)