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[BOOK XVI].
LACTANCE. FAME (René), trans.
Lactantius Firmianus, On the Divine Institutions against the Gentiles and Idolaters, newly collated with the earliest copies and printed with illustrations. Paris: Estienne Groulleau, 1555.
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LACTANCE. FAME (René), trans.
Lactantius Firmianus, On the Divine Institutions against the Gentiles and Idolaters, newly collated with the earliest copies and printed with illustrations. Paris: Estienne Groulleau, 1555.
In-16, (16) leaves, 774 pp, framed title (scrollwork). Ivory vellum with rear flaps, smooth spine with modern handwritten title and date (lower cover restored, faint waterstains at the beginning of the volume then sporadically in the lower margins, some foxing; pen marks on the title page and pp. 128, 400–401).
Charles de Raoux (or Raveux?; old handwritten bookplate on the title page).
Eustache Marcot (1686–1755), professor of medicine at Montpellier, summoned to the Court in 1734, court physician, then First Court Physician to the King and the Children of France (name in old manuscript in the margin on the title page, pp. 400 and 737).
Jacques Alexandre de Poitevin, Lord of Mezouls, died in 1807, tax collector in Montpellier, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences as a physicist from 1773 until 1777, then as a mathematician from 1777 until the dissolution of the Society in 1793 (old handwritten label on the upper inside cover).
USTC 6904.
A new edition, distributed by several booksellers, of this reliable translation by the humanist René Fame (c. 1499–1540), notary and secretary to the king. It appears to be an exact reproduction of the edition published by the same publisher in 1551. Illustrated with over 150 woodcut vignettes in black within the text, unsigned, though some suggest the hand of Jean Cousin. Sign. *8, **8, a-y8; A-Z8; AA-CC8; DD3.