Purpura docta, seu, Vitae, legationes, res gestae, obitus, aliaq́ue scitu, ac memoratu digna, &c. S.R.E. Cardinalium, qui ingenio, doctrina, eruditione, scriptis, libris editis, & elucubrationibus quibuscunque ab anno Redemptionis humanae DXL usque ad aetatem nostram, prae caeteris orbi Christiano inclaruêre
Subtitle: desumpta ex Alphonso Ciaconio, Andrea Victorello, Augustino Oldoino ... in sex libros, cum uberrimis notis marginalibus, ac triplici indice, authorum, personarum, & rerum
By: digesta, & in lucem edita per Georgium Josephum Eggs ...
Contributors: Chacón, Alfonso, 1540-1599.; Vittorelli, Andrea, 1580-1653.; Oldoini, Agostino, 1612-1683.; König, Johann Georg, 1659-1722, publisher.; Remy, Johann Jacob, fl. 1714, publisher.; Bibliothèque des Fontaines.; Jesuit Residence of Enghien (Belgium),
Publisher: Prostant & veneunt apud Joannem Georgium König.
Published: 1710
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography -- Early works to 1800.; Cardinals -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Vitae, legationes, res gestae, obitus, aliaq́ue scitu, ac memoratu digna, &c.
Notes: Libers tertius and quartius have half-titles only and continuous pagination.

Title page to liber I. & II. in red and black.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia.

Imprint varies on title pages of liber V. & VI.: "Monachi, Sumptibus Joan. Jacobi Remy biblipolæ. Anno M. DCC. XIV."

Includes indexes.

BN, XLVI, col. 957-958

NUC pre-1956, NE0055208

Bibliothèque des Fontaines, purchase,

Burns Library copy: book label at foredge head of front pastedown: Bibliotheca S.J. Maison Saint-Augustin, Enghien.

Burns Library copy: ink stamp on t.p.: Collegium Angiense Societatis Jesu.

Burns Library copy: lacking libri III-VI (vols. 2-3).