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Praestantium aliquot theologorum, qui Rom. antichristum praecipuè oppugnarunt, effigies : quibus addita e'logia liborumq[ue] catalogi / operâ Iac. Verheiden.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio NC55 V5877 602p
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verheiden, Jacob, active 1590.
- Standardized Title:
- Praestantium aliquot theologorum
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation--Europe--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Reformation.
- Reformation--Europe--Portraits--Early works to 1800.
- Portraits.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Stirling, William (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 226 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm (folio)
- Fingerprint:
- imo- oss- s.uæ t.s. (C) 1602 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Hagae-Comitis : Ex officina Bucoldi Cornelii Nieulandii, MDCII [1602]
- Notes:
- Printer's name from colophon on leaf 2E3v.
- Signatures: *⁶ A-2C⁴ 2D⁶ 2E⁴ (2E4 blank).
- This issue lacks the gathering [con]², featuring Berengarius, between *5 and *6. Another issue includes these two leaves. Cf. BL Low Countries 1600-1621.
- Page 193 numbered 139.
- Engraved title leaf (signed: Sculpebat, et excud. Henricus Hondius.) and portraits (signed H, Hh, Hhon, HAB, i.e. Heinrich Hondius the elder; portrait of Melanchthon also bears the device of Albrecht Dürer).
- Woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
- Errata on leaf 2E3v.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 2E4 (blank) wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of William Stirling on front pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full vellum; boards double ruled in gold; spine rebacked in red morocco with title and imprint stamped in gold.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. leaf of bibliographic information, including list of portraits, in red and black ink and pencil affixed to front free endpaper; 2 slips with bookseller's typescript description (of this copy?) laid in.
- Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. underlines, marks and annotations in brown ink; a few ms. underlines and marks in red ink.
- Cited in:
- NUC pre-1956, DCXXXIV, p. 127
- BL Low Countries, 1601-1621, V156
- Brunet V, p. 1138
- Brunet (suppl.) II, p. 867
- OCLC:
- 32985158
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