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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Dec 4, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School | 152 | $****** - ****** | LACTANTIUS, Lucius Coelius Firmianus (c.250-c.325). Opera. Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz |
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contemporary coat-of-arms on 21r – early marginalia in several hands – Bernardinus Martinengus, ‘at present living in Cyprus’ (inscription recording bequest to:) – Stephanus de Perarie, a Dominican professor of theology – another hand (maybe Stephanus himself?) notes that the gift was made at Nicosia on 3 ‘Madii’ [?March? or May?] 1482, ‘after lunch’ – Salomon Crubelerius, minister in holy orders, recording the gift to him of the book by ‘the noble Lord of Malmont, doctor of laws’ (inscription dated 27 March 1612) – J. H. Burn O. R. (book label dated 1931 recording bequest to:) – Bookplate of Rugby School Library.
An elegantly illuminated copy of the first Roman edition of Lactantius, from the second press of Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz. The Greek type used in this edition differs from their Subiaco edition of 1465, and diacritics have been added in manuscript to some of the Greek quotations. Additionally, this edition has Lactantius's poem on the phoenix at the end, together with extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Dante's Commedia on the same subject (which is the earliest appearance of Dante in print). HC *9807; GW M-16542; BMC IV 4; Bod-inc L-003; BSB-Ink L-3; ISTC il00002000; Goff L-2.
215 leaves (of 220, without blanks, lacks last errata leaf *12 and text leaves 167 and 213). With 9 illuminated opening initials with white vine interlace on pink, blue and green, other initials and rubrication in red and blue (last quarter of the leaves with tiny hole in bottom margin sometimes repaired, light staining and browning and spotting). Early 19th-century russia gilt, gilt edges (lightly rubbed, spine a little faded).
