TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimus Florentius. Apologeticus contra gentes, Venice: Bernadinus Benalius, [not after 1494], 2°, second edition, 7-line initial in blue with red decoration, 3-line initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, some capital strokes and underlining in red (blue initials occasionally washed out, small wormhole to upper margin of first few leaves, washed, hinges reinforced), modern vellum-backed printed paper boards. [BMC V, 376 (IB. 22421); Goff T117]

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TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimus Florentius. Apologeticus contra gentes, Venice: Bernadinus Benalius, [not after 1494], 2°, second edition, 7-line initial in blue with red decoration, 3-line initials and paragraph marks alternating in red and blue, some capital strokes and underlining in red (blue initials occasionally washed out, small wormhole to upper margin of first few leaves, washed, hinges reinforced), modern vellum-backed printed paper boards. [BMC V, 376 (IB. 22421); Goff T117]

Provenance

Ownership inscriptions of Johann Fuchsmagen and Georg Fueger (1528); 18th-century contents list of a tract volume, first part signed by Carneli Econtini 1764; Joseph Petrus Aigner, 1788.

Lot Essay

Tertullian's Apology is a classic of Christian literature, addressed to the Roman provincial governors and describing the injustice of the persecutions of the Christians.
The two earliest owners of this book, Johann Fuchsmagen and Georg Fueger, can be indentified as members of the bourgeois elite of Hall, Tyrol, during its height as an Imperial city. Georg Fueger was especially prominent as an imperial advisor and "Salzmair" in Hall, and he was a member of Florian Waldauf's Stubengesellschaft.

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