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Institutio Christianae religionis : in libros quatuor nunc primùm digesta, certísque distincta capitibus, ad aptissimam methodum : aucta etiam tam magna accessione vt propemodum opus nouum haberi possit / Iohanne Caluino authore.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Swift's Reading Collection BX9420 .I58 1561
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Reformed Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Reformed Church.
- Reformed Church--Doctrines.
- Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800.
- Theology, Doctrinal.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)
- Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)
- Hinckes, Gulielmus (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 980 pages, 68 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- [Geneva] : Excudebat Antonius Rebulius, 1561.
- Notes:
- Device on t.p. depicts the narrow and wide gates from Matthew 7:13 which is also used as part of F. Perrin's printer device.
- Place of publication from Adams.
- Colophon reads: Ex officina Antonii Rebulii, Anno post Christum natum, MDLXI.
- Signatures: *-2*⁸ a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ 2a-2t⁸ 2v⁴.
- Woodcuts: device; initials.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Errata on p. [67] at end.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.
- An early printed vellum leaf has been used for endpapers.
- With early ms. note on last page; some notes in margins.
- Cited in:
- Adams C362
- NUC pre-1956 91, p. 282b
- OCLC:
- 3386908
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