'Η Θεία Λείτουpγία Τοù 'Αγίου Ιωάννου Τοù Χρυσοστόμου

Collection Data

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1528
Place: Venetiis
Publisher: Per Ioa[n]nem Antonium & Fratres de Sabio sumptu & expensis D. Demetrii Zini Zacynthii: & D. Menandri Nuntii Corcyræi sociis
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Ital. 1528
Topics
Liturgy -- Orthodox Eastern Church
Wood engravings, Italian.
Bindings, Greek style
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407
Genres
Prints
Religious books
Notes
Content: Preface in Latin; text in Greek and Latin on opposite pages.
Content: Printed in red and black. Illustrations: full-page woodcut portrait of Saint John Chrysostom. Pictorial initial.
Content: Binding, contemporary Venetian in the Greek style (raised headbands, grooved edges and plain spine), of brown morocco, gilt, over wooden boards. For discussion of this style in which the Greek binding technique is combined with typical Western European decoration, cf. Goldschmidt, E. P. Gothic & Renaissance bookbindings. London, 1928. v. 1, p. 203-204, and Hobson, G. D. Thirty bindings...from the First edition club's seventh exhibition. London, 1926. p. 4 and pl. no. 2.
Physical Description
Extent: 44 l. port. 23cm. (4°.)
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9a3baa50-50b1-013c-0415-0242ac110003
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