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De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatarum / opusculum Roberti Cardinalis Bellarmini è Societate Iesu ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- God--Attributes.
- Mysticism--Early works to 1800.
- Mysticism.
- God--Attributes--Early works to 1800.
- God.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cornwallis, James Mann, Earl, 1778-1852 (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)
- Fisher, Otto Oren (bookplate) (CJS Rare copy)
- Teller, Arthur (autograph) (stamp) (CJS Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 282 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- De ascensione mentis in Devm per scalas rervm creatarvm
- Fingerprint:
- isia s,s, a-ue toin (3) 1615 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam & filios Jo. Moreti, MDCXV [1615]
- Notes:
- Colophon on leaf S6v reads: Antuerpiæ, ex Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam et filios Ioannis Moreti. M. DC. XV.
- Signatures: *⁸ A-S⁸ (leaf S8 blank).
- "Some copies have a woodcut IHS-vignette on the title page (state A), other copies have an engraved version (state B)"--STCV.
- Woodcut initials and tail-pieces; woodcut printer's device on leaf S7r.
- Printed marginalia.
- Local Notes:
- CJS Rare copy has woodcut IHS-vignette on title leaf (STCV state A).
- CJS Rare copy has early ms. inscription (struck through and illegible) on title leaf.
- CJS Rare copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2019 at auction from Kestenbaum & Company (lot 58).
- CJS Rare copy has armorial bookplate of Earl Cornwallis (probably James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis) on front pastedown; illustrated bookplate of Otto Oren Fisher (with ms. note "200-33" in blue ink) on front free endpaper.
- CJS Rare copy has autograph of Arthur Teller, M.D. on blank leaf following front free endpaper and his largely illegible round embossed stamp on leaves B1-B4, H3-H7, N8-O4.
- CJS Rare copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy(?) affixed to blank leaf following front free endpaper.
- CJS Rare copy bound in full parchment; boards ruled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges; spine ruled in gold; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("BELLARMINI DE ASCENSIONE"); ms. date ("1615") in red at foot of spine; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; brown silk marker.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Cited in:
- STCV 6630043
- Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, I, 1231, nr. 34
- Bibliotheca Catholica Neerlandica impressa, 1500-1727, 6167
- OCLC:
- 2674846
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