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TRITHEMIUS, JOANNES. De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis. [32], 494 pages. 4to, 203x160 mm, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with design of 6 vertical rows of repeated rosette tools on covers, brass catches, lacks clasps, rebacked with covers upside down, endpapers renewed, portions of leaves from a 14th-century Latin manuscript on vellum bound in as endleaves; occasional minor dampstaining along bottom edges. Early inscription "Redinchem" on title, presumably the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Redinchem (now Renkum) in the Netherlands, whose ownership inscription appears on one of the vellum manuscript fragments. Bookplate of James Stevens Cox. Cologne: Peter Quentel, 1546
Fourth edition of the first bibliography to appear in print and the first conceived as a practical reference work, recording over 6000 titles, originally published in 1494. Despite the title, its scope was not restricted to ecclesiastical authors, and this edition is enlarged with appendices extending the work into the 16th century. Adams T973 (this edition); Grolier/Breslauer & Folter 7 (1494 original edition).
