Tertullianus, Scripta, Basel, 1562, contemporary Parisian morocco gilt

TERTULLIANUS, QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS. Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani, Carthaginensis presbyteri, autoris antiquissimi ac doctissimi scripta, ad complures veteres è Gallicanis Germanicisque bibliothecis conquisitos recognita codices, in quibus praecipuus fuit unus longè incorruptissimus in ultimam usque petitus Britanniam: non omissis accuratis Beati Rhenani annotationibus. Basel: Froben (Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, September) 1562

An unusual binding design with coloured inlays beneath the centre and cornerpieces.

Folio (333 x 220 mm). Roman type, 45 lines plus headline. Collation: +⁶ a-z A-Z Aa-Zz AA-KK⁶ LL⁴ MM⁶: 490 leaves (GG6 blank). Woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut diagram with letterpress captions, ruled in red.

Binding: Contemporary Parisian brown (or slightly faded navy) morocco gilt (340 x 236 mm), double frame of gilt and blind fillets, central oval terracotta morocco inlay filled with gilt interlaced arabesque stamp, shaped corner terracotta morocco inlays with azured stamps, small corner fleurons, spine with small azured fleuron gilt in compartments and gilt and blind hatching at head and foot, gilt edges. (Binding slightly rubbed.)

Provenance: "M. danquethin", inscription on verso of flyleaf — Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red morocco gilt booklabel — Martin Breslauer Inc., catalogue 109 (New York, 1988), item 75. Acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. References: USTC 688937; VD16 T 563