Nicephori Callisti Xanthopuli, scriptoris vere Catholici, Ecclesiasticae historiae libri decem et octo.. Sacratiss. Rom. Regis Ferdinandi liberalitate, opera verò ac studio doctiss. viri Ioannis Langi, Co[n]siliarij Regij, è Graeco in Latinum sermonem translati, nuncq[ue] denuò castigatores, & scholiis ad margine[m] permultis superadditis, auctiores in lucem editi. Quorum eximia vtilitas, prae caeteris Ecclesiasticorum scriptorum historiis hactenus editis, cùm in Ioan. Langi ad S. R. Maiest. tum ipsius Nicephori, lucubrationis huius suae initio statim adiecta praefatione, satis luculenter exponitur. ...
Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (c.758 - 829)
Category
Books
Date
1566
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3183609
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ; 8vo. Vols. 2 and 3 bound in 1 v. (vol.2) Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on vol. 1 title page: "Hannibal Gamon Tandem D.O.M." [i.e. Hannibal Gamon (1582?-1651), Rector of St. Mawgan], and "Vixit 1305. Incipit à xiatiuitate [sic] [christ]i et Desinit in Annu[m] 625" [i.e. biographical note on the author by Hannibal Gamon]. With manuscript marginalia and underscoring of text by Hannibal Gamon. Binding: sixteenth-century[?] calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; panel of blind thin thick thin fillets, with gilt cornerpiece stamps; small gilt centrepiece stamp (vase of flowers). Rebacked in sheepskin. Gilt title on spines.
Makers and roles
Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (c.758 - 829) Johannes Lange (d.1548) Joannes Oporinus (1507-1568)