• Opera

Uniform title:

• Works. 1465

Author:

• Lactantius, approximately 240-approximately 320

Printer:

• Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477
• Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478

Publisher:

• [Subiaco, Italy Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz], 1465.

Format:

• Book

Date:

• 1465

Extent:

• [184] leaves. 35 cm.

Language:

• Latin

Description:

• Leaf [1a]: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutio[n]ibus aduersus gentes rubrice p[ri]mi libri incipiu[n]t.
• Colophon: Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutionibus aduersus gentes libri septem ... Sub a[n]no d[omi]ni M.CCCC.LXV. ... Indictio[n]e xiii. die uero an[te]penulti[m]a mensis Octobris. In uenerabili monasterio Sublacensi. Deo gratias.
• Signatures: 1¹⁰ (last leaf blank, 2-6¹⁰, 7¹², 8-14¹⁰, 15¹², 16-17¹⁰, 18¹⁰ (last two leaves blank).
• Large blanks left for Greek quotations in some quires, Greek printing in others suggest that this may have been printed on two presses. -cf. BMC IV 2 (IB 17006). The first dated book printed in Italy and the first book containing printed Greek characters.
• Princeton copy 1 without the two leaves of errata found in some copies; leaves 10, 183 and 184 blank.

Binding note:

• Princeton copy 1 in later red goatskin bordered in gold rules and tooling; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Former owner:

• Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, 1656-1733
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943

Bookseller:

• Lathrop C. Harper, Inc

Call number:

• EXKA Incunabula 1465
• 36.9

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9939782643506421

Subject:

• Incunabula

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• In Principio
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• Italy Grouping
• The Scheide Library
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

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