Gregoriana super Novum Testamentum

Commentary on the New Testament.

16th century blind tooled calf binding, bound at the workshop of Garrett Godfrey, a Dutch-born binder active in Cambridge from the early 16th century until his death in 1539. Covers with rolls number 3 and 4 of George J. Gray's, The Earlier Cambridge Stationers & Bookbinders and the First Cambridge Printer. Roll 3 is composed of four compartments - a turreted gateway, a fleur-de-lis, a pomegrantae and a rose stamps, each surmounted by a crown, with binder's initials "G.G." in a small panel between the rose and the turreted gateway ; roll 4 of quatrefoils within lozenges. Remains of fore-edge ties. Bookblock edges sprinkled red. The spine and corners have been skillfully repaired.

Gregory I, Pope (approximately 540-604)

Paris: Berthold Rembolt (-1518)

1516

Binding by Garrett Godfrey (-1539).

Inscription in ink on title-page beneath printer's device, in a 17th century(?) hand: "Collegij Societatis Jesu Louanij" - Jesuit College, Louvain, Belgium.

Inscription in ink at foot of title-page: "J.F. Van de Velde 1783[?]". This is Belgian professor and bibliophile, last librarian of the old University of Louvain, Jean-Francois Van de Velde (1743-1823).

Purchased by the University of Liverpool in 1939 from Quaritch, bookseller, for £9.9.0, using funds provided by Mrs Clara Hornby.

USTC, 144582
BP16 103022

Quarto (22 cm)