Live auction - Lot 1105
[Douai imprint]
Antiquitatum ecclesiasticarum syntagmata V. [bound with] ID.- Antiquitatum (…) syntagmata IV. (…). Accesserunt auctoris aliquot epigrammata.
EPO, Boetius
€ 120 / 160
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Lot description
Douai, J. Bogardus, 1578, id
2 works in 1 vol., 8vo : [8]-136-[8], [8]-172-[4] ff. (some soiling at 1st ff., blank bottom margin of 1st title cut off and underlaid, single wormholes, sm. wormtrack in blank bottom margin, dampstaining in bottom margin).
Cont. gilt calf (rubbed, spine dam.), gilt central orn. on covers, fore-edge titled. Rather poor copy.
Collection of 9 treatises on early Church history by the Frisian law professor at Douai Boetius Epo (1529-1599). They deal with i.a. canon law, the origins of the Mass, ecclesiastical hierarchies, indulgences and the like. At the end some ff. with Epo's Latin poetry. Woodcut mark on title. Old ownership entry on 1st title and at the end. Ref. Labarre 44-45. - Pettegree NB 11212-13. - Adams E-300/301.