De Vera Mensurarum Ponderumque Ratione Opus de Integro Instauratu a reuerendo in Christo patre.
by CENEAU, Robert [Roberto SENALI; CENALIS] (1483-1560)
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Paris:: Joannem Roigny, 1535., 1535. Small 8vo. [xvi], 82 ff., 83-86 pp., 87-119 ff. Signatures: A-B8 a-k8 l4 m-n8 o10 p8 (p8 blank). Large woodcut initial letter, folding table [Ponderum Notulae], table in text (f.29 verso). Modern vellum, gilt-stamped maroon cover label; small tears to folios 25, 57, [60]=70. Title a bit soiled, rebacked with paper, faint waterstaining, old manuscript inscription on title, printing flaw on f.113 [P1] with four words partly supplied in manuscript. Occasional marginalia. RARE. Very good. Ceneau was a French Catholic theologian and historian. After graduating from the Sorbonne in 1513, he served successively as Bishop of Vence, Riez, and Avranches. He was a vigorous antagonist of the reformation and sought to repress "Lutheranism". This work is on the history of weights and measures in France "with a view to encourage uniformity." – Martin Bucer p. xii. The fifth part deals with the calculation and use of the abacus [f.57]. Printed by Jean de Roigny, fl. 1529-1566. Note: not all copies have the folding table. Not in: Bruno Kisch, Scales and Weights: an historical outline. REFERENCES: Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, no. 1253; Andrew Pettegree, ?Malcolm Walsby (eds.), French Books III & IV (FB) (2 vols.): Books published in France before 1601 in Latin . . . Brill, 2012, no. 60610; John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, 1891, p. 863; B. Moreau, Inventaire Chronologique des editions Parisiennes du XVIe siecle, Paris, 1972-2004, vol. IV, no. 1233. See also: Martin Bucer, Martin Bucer Opera Latina, v. 5, William Ian P. Hazlett (ed.), p. xii; Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion . . . 1536; trans. Ford Lewis Battles; Iain Fenlon, ?Inga Mai Groote, (eds.), Heinrich Glarean's Books: The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist, Cambridge University Press, (2013), pages 171, 348, etc.
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
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- RW1348
- Title
- De Vera Mensurarum Ponderumque Ratione Opus de Integro Instauratu a reuerendo in Christo patre.
- Author
- CENEAU, Robert [Roberto SENALI; CENALIS] (1483-1560)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joannem Roigny, 1535.
- Place of Publication
- Paris:
- Date Published
- 1535
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Weights and Measures
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