Lucii Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Opera, quae extant omnia, videlicet. Diuinarum institutionum aduersus gentes libri septem. Earundem institutionum epitome a kephalos. De ira Dei liber vnus. De opificio Dei, siue De formatione hominis liber vnus. A Iosepho Isaeo Caesenate olim diui Petri de vrbe canonico, Cambettolae, Buschi, & comite summa umma diligentia recognita, & non modo ex antiquissimis MSS. codicibus, ac probatioribus impressis, sed etiam ex doctissimis scriptoribus emendata, et notis illustrata. Quae item praeter ea fuerint in hac editione praestita, prolegomenon index, quem pagina nona reperies ostendit.
Lactantius (c.240-c.320)
Category
Books
Date
1650
Materials
Measurements
316 x 39 x 216 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3195717
Summary
Bibliographic description
lxiiij, 380 p. ; fol. Running number: 2852. Provenance: armorial binding of Henri-Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (1675-1726). Manuscript initial letter on front fly-leaf: "A". Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp: three crowned lions (léopards) passant guardant, French ducal coronet (three and two halves of strawberry leaves visible, with interleaved pearls), on an ermine peer's mantle armoyé [i.e. Henri-Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (1675-1726)]. Gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with cipher monogram and ducal coronet. Red sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers. Water damage and staining at the foot of many leaves and both covers.
Makers and roles
Lactantius (c.240-c.320) Josephus Isaeus