Title page to tome 1 printed in red and black; with engraved title device.

Half title page to tome 1: Q. Septimi Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginiensis presbyteri, Opera omnia / per Iacobum Pamelium illustrata ; in quinque tomos divisa.

Each tome has a contents page with a woodcut headpiece and the title: Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginiensis Operum. Tomus primus[-quintus]. The contents page to tome 4 has been wrongly designated 'quintus' but the index to the tomes on page 18 of the numbered sequence prior to tome 1 states that the text of tome 4 begins on page 874.

Tome 3 has title page with engraved device and the title: Q. Septimi Florentis Tertulliani Carthaginiensis presbyteri, Opera omnia ... tomus tertius. (with the same imprint as tome 1).

Colophon (page 1102) reads: Rothomagi : Ex typographiâ Claudii Grivet, in vico Riuuli, sub signo Nobilis Scientiae, MDCLXII.

Illustrations: woodcut portrait of the author on page 16 of tome 1; full page woodcut illustration on page [440] of tome 3.

Woodcut head- and tailpieces; initials.

With numbered sequence of pagination prior to tome 1; tomes 1-5 continuously paginated (tome 2 starts page 161; tome 3: p. [325]; tome 4: p. 871; tome 5: p. 935); signatures also continuous.

Text printed predominantly in double columns in roman and italic type; with printed marginalia.

The record for this work in CLC (T245) does not mention the printer named in the colophon, but states he was active in Rouen in 1654.

Contains biographical information on pages 21-40 of numbered sequence prior to tome 1: Vita Q. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani ... auctore Iacobo Pamelio ...

Includes extensive indexes (pages 78-167 of the preliminary p. of tome 1).

CLC T245

Gift; Johnson family; 1914.