Epistole aliquot illustriū virorum ad Erasmum Roterodamum, & huius ad illos : Index Epistola Petri Aegidii Antuerpiani ad clarissimũ virũ D. Gasparum Halmalum ...

Author

Desiderius Erasmus

Title

Epistole aliquot illustriū virorum ad Erasmum Roterodamum, & huius ad illos : Index Epistola Petri Aegidii Antuerpiani ad clarissimũ virũ D. Gasparum Halmalum ...

Date

1516

Place

[Louvain, Belgium]

Publisher

Venundantur a Theodorico Martino Alustensi chalcographo fidelissimo.

Language

Latin

Contributor

PRINTER:
Thierry Martens

Editor

Pierre Gillis

Note

IMPRINT:
[Louvain, Belgium] : Venundantur a Theodorico Martino Alustensi chalcographo fidelissimo., [October 1516]

Colophon, leaf i3v, reads: "Imprimebat Louanii Theodoricus Martinus Alustensis. Anno domini Millesimo Quingentesimo Decimosexto Mense Octobri. Cum gratia & priuilegio."

FORMAT:
[76] unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Collation: 4to: a⁶ b-i⁴ [$2 (+a3) signed]; 38 leaves, unnumbered (i4 blank).

CONTENT:
Edited by Pierre Gillis (Petrus Aegidius); first edition of this collection, containing 18 new letters of Erasmus & 3 reprinted. Editor's prefatory letter dated 26 September 1516 (sexto Calendas Octobres. An. M.D. XVI.).

Edition probably corresponds to no. 0424, "*(Erasmus, Desiderius?), Doctissime illustrium virorum epistole, etc. Leuven, Theod. Martinus Alost., 1516. 4°." in W. Nijhoff, Nederlandsche bibliographie van 1500 tot 1540 ("Nijhoff-Kronenberg").

Title (followed by list of contents) and imprint from title page.

TYPE:
Types: 160[?]G (title; "Cum Gratia ..." at end), 85R, 86Gr. 34 lines and headline, 144 (151) x 85 mm. With miscellaneous woodcut initials.

REFERENCES:
Pollard, A.W. Catalogue of books mostly from the presses of the first printers ... collected by Rush C. Hawkins, 493
Erasmus Online 2058.
NKr 2939.
Adams E-846.
Ind. Aurel. 161.478.
Heireman (1973) A-254=M-134.
Vanautgaerden/Adam 153.

Library Catalog

Num Pages

76

Call Number

PA8511 .A22 1516

Files

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Collection

Citation

Desiderius Erasmus, “Epistole aliquot illustriū virorum ad Erasmum Roterodamum, & huius ad illos : Index Epistola Petri Aegidii Antuerpiani ad clarissimũ virũ D. Gasparum Halmalum ...,” Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (CRRS) Rare Book Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://crrs.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/10144.