| Provenance: | Former owner's inscription on front pastedown: 17. [illegible]
Former owner's signature on front pastedown: 1608, Burchhardus Theodoricus Senfft à Sulburg.
Manuscript coat of arms on front pastedown, of the house of Senft von Sulburg.
Former owner's inscription on front flyleaf, illegible.
Manuscript note on front flyleaf: 3091.
Former owner's signature on title page: Christophorus Haints.
Former owner's signature on title page: Burchhardus Theodoricus Senfft à Sulburg, 1608.
Former owner's signature on title page, crossed out: Iohan [illegible] AD 1627.
Occasional manuscript annotations throughout in 1 hand, allegedly Melanchton's.
Laid-in sheets of former owners' notes from approx. 19th century.
Former owner's inscription on rear pastedown, illegible.
Bookseller's label on rear pastedown with extensive inscription: Brunet. Ce volume peu commun, se joint à la collection Aldine. 13/. Steber. £1.1.0 Butler. Edition of 1518-19. 1.16.0. Quantch. Ed. 1519. £2.2.0 Sancia. Most copies of the Charon were destroyed by order of the Inquisition and no wonder. Dear Reader, read it. This was Melanchthon's copy with his ms. notes. see g iiii recto and many other pages. See Rabelais Gargantua xix. un quidam Latinizateur + + dist une fois alleguant l'authorité d'un Japonius [je faulx, c'était Pontanus] poete seculier &c. &c. + Mais il fut déclaré hérétique nous les faison comme decir. See Bolus Ed. 1. p 37.36. [Renouard £6.6.0].
Binding: Full blind-tooled, red-dyed pigskin over boards; inscribed on fore-edge: Pontanus de artus[?].
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