{"product_id":"divinarum-institutionum-libri-vii-1521","title":"Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII. 1521.","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eL. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Divinarum institutionum Libri VII. De ira Dei, Liber I. Epitome in libros suos liber acephalos. Phoenix. Carmen de dominica resurrectione. Carmen de passione Domini. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e(Colophon: Basileae, Apud Andream Cratandrum, mense februario, 1521)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eThick 4to (217x143); [10], 433, [3] pp. Title within large woodcut frame (Hans Holbein the Younger), large woodcut initials, large woodcut printers device on last page. Various marginal notations and manicules throughout. Blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, with remaining clasp anchors present, leather clasps lacking. Hole in upper rear board indicating this volume was once kept in a chained library. Rebacked. Binding nice and tight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore Information:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.75pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eOn the title page appears for the first time the famous woodcut border depicting \"Lucretia and Judith\" by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), the famous German-Swiss painter and printmaker, considered one of the greatest portraitists of his century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.75pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eThe first Cratander edition of Lactantius, “The Christian Cicero”. Front flyleaf contains contemporary ms. additions of scholarly writing embodying quotations from Plato and Quintilian, dated 1522. \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRear flyleaf \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtains 2 Latin poems in apparently the same hand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.75pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eLactantius was advisor to the Roman emperor Constantin I and tutor Constantin's son, Crispus. The De Divinis Institutionibus adversus gentes was written in A.D. 304-13 and is considered his greatest work; it deals with the new religion and thoroughly examines all the arguments then available in its favour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 3.75pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'proxima-nova',serif; color: #202020; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\"\u003eProvenance: Grolier sale at Swann Galleries, March 17, 1975.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kurtz Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50907361640754,"sku":"0244","price":2275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/0481\/5666\/files\/Lactantius_7148b4bd-6357-4524-85f9-7017fe28e941.jpg?v=1770943341","url":"https:\/\/kurtzrarebooks.com\/products\/divinarum-institutionum-libri-vii-1521","provider":"Kurtz Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}