Epistola aurea de contemptu mundi, et eius vanitate, et laude vitae solitariae, siue speculum vitae humanae / opera & expensis D. Gasparis Serrani Lusitani ; ad serenissimum, clementissimumque Philippum III. Hispaniarum, & Occidentalium Orientalium[que], Indiarum principem dignissimum & potentissimum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Contributor:

Serrão, Gaspar.

Buchholtz, Bertram, active 1592-1603, printer.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--Early works to 1800.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Asceticism--Early works to 1800.

Asceticism.

Penn Provenance:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990 (bookplate) (former owner) (stamp) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Carvalla, Catharina (inscription) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Jouza, Miguel de (inscription) (Cassuto Collection copy)

Physical Description:

56, 58-64 leaves, 9 unnumbered leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)

Other Title:

Epistola avrea de contemptv mvndi, et eivs vanitate, et lavde vitae solitariae, siue speculum vitae humanae

Fingerprint:

o.i- uid- a-o- midi (3) 1590 (R)

Place of Publication:

Coloniae Agrippinae : Excudebat Bertramus Buchholtz, Anno MDXC [1590]

Notes:

Signatures: A-H⁸, ²B⁸.

Leaf E2 signed D2; leaf H2 signed H3.

Errors in foliation: leaf 2 numbered "1"; leaf 10 numbered "13".

Title, text and printed marginalia within border of type ornaments and rules.

Title vignette (device), initials and tail-piece.

"Tabulae festorum mobilium et nouilunorum ab anno natiuitatis Christi N.R. 1589. vsque ad annum 1656. ... secundum ordinem & regulam noui calendarij Gregorij xiij. pontificis maximi": Leaves ²B1-B8.

Not in VD 16.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lea Library Maintenance Fund.

Cassuto Collection copy imperfect: leaves ²B2-3 wanting.

Cassuto Collection copy has several dampstained and partially illegible early ms. inscriptions ("Catterina [...]"; "Catharina Carvalla na [...] con ce[...] dir [...]"; "Miguel de Jouza [...] Miguel") on leaf ²B8v; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper.

Alfonso Cassuto Collection copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2014 from the Cassuto family in Portugal.

Cassuto Collection copy has bookplate (on front pastedown) and armorial blind stamp (on title leaf) of the library of Alfonso Cassuto.

Cassuto Collection copy bound in one quarter leather over marbled paper boards; spine tooled in gold; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("EPISTOLA AUREA").

Cassuto Collection copy has hole in fore-edge margin of leaves; wormhole in front pastedown, front free endpaper and blank leaf preceding title leaf; wormhole in head margin of leaves B3-D2; wormhole in back pastedown; lower portion of leaves dampstained; left board damaged at hinge.

Cited in:

Barbosa Machado, D. Biblioteca lusitana histórica, crítica e cronológica, II, p. 371-372

Catalogo da ... bibliotheca dos Marquezes de Castello Melhor, 3352

Hispanic Society. Printed books, 1468-1700, p. 514

Ramer, R.C. 110 recent acquisitions, 16th through 21st centuries. (Special list 184 (Feb. 2014)), no. 49

OCLC:

887397901