Ambrose, Opera

Abstract

Ambrose, Opera, 3 vols., ed. Conradus Leontorius, monk of Maulbronn. Pr. Ioannes Petri de Langendorff, Basel, 29 May 1506. Each volume is inscribed, 18th- or 19th-cent., ‘Su(m)ptum Bibliotecae regiae Monacensis’ (‘Taken from the Royal Library, Munich’). Bookplates have been soaked off from inside the front covers. Many duplicates from the Royal Library (now the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), which had acquired huge numbers of books from dissolved German monastic houses, were sold by Sotheby in London, 27 Aug. 1841. Inside the front cover of vol. 1 is pencilled ‘3 vols. 35/-‘, ?early 20th-cent. From the Library of Christ College. Uncatalogued.