Rev. Patris Lvdovici ab Alcasar Hispalensis e Societate Iesv Theologi, & in prouincia baetica sacrae scripturae professoris, Vestigatio arcani sensvs in Apocalypsi
Subtitle: adiectum quoque opusculum de sacris ponderibus ac mensuris
By: prostat haec editio post Antuerpiensem suis quibusque locis illustrata figuris aeneis, cum indicibvs tam sacrae scripturae, quàm notationum singularum, rerúmque ac verborum omnium pernecessariis.
Contributors: Pillehotte, Antoine, printer.; Turpin, Nicolaus Carolus, former owner,; Bibliothèque municipale de Roanne,; Bibliotheca Collegii Pictavense,; Domus Sancti Aloysii Cantiliac,; Bibliothèque des Fontaines.
Publisher: sumptibus A. Pillehotte
Published: 1618
Place of publication: Lvgdvni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 778
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Revelation -- Commentaries. -- Early works to 1800.; Weights and measures, Jewish -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Rev. Patris Ludovici ab Alcasar Hispalensis e Societate Iesu Theologi, & in provincia baetica sacrae scripturae professoris, Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi; Vestigatio arcani sensvs in Apocalypsi; Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi; Alcasar in Apocalypsim; Vestigatio veritatis in sacris ponderibvs ac mensuris
Notes: Collation: fol.: *⁴ **⁶ ***² A-4B⁶, a⁶-f⁶ x¹; [$4 (-**2, 2C3, 3C,; +f5) signed (missigning *3 as [pentangle]3, 2X2 as X2, 2Y1 as Y1, a2 as A2, b4 as B4, f3 as F3)]; leaves: p. [i-viii] ix-xxi [xxii-xxiii] [blank] 1-778, [72], 1-74 (misprinting 45 as 49, 78 as 65, 112 as 114, 121 as 122, 125 as 152, 161 as 160, 187 as 175, 277 as 105, 329-332 as 339-342, 565 as 563, 618 as 518, 631 as 632, 681-682 as 679-680).

Title in black and red; title vignette; head-pieces.

Includes indexes (signatures Vvv-Bbbb).

Title on p. 1: "Vestigatio veritatis in sacris ponderibvs ac mensuris."

Ill.: p. xi: "Frons domus Apocalypticae"; p. [xxii-xxiii]: 24 engraved scenes from the Apocalypse; p. 171: map showing the locations of the 7 cities of Apocalypse; p. 241: half-page engraving depicting Apoc. 4: 4; p. 305: full-page engraving depicting Apoc. 5: 6-11; p. 366: half-page engraving depicting Apoc. 8: 2; p. 575: full-page engraving depicting Apoc. 13; p. 585: full-page engraving depicting Apoc. 16.

Backer-Sommervogel, I, 146

Bibliothèque des Fontaines, purchase

Burns Library copy 1: stamp on verso of t.p., p. 17 and last page: "Bibliothèque de la ville de Roanne."

Burns Library copy 2: stamp on verso of t.p.: "Boston College Library Chestnut Hill, Mass."; Boston College date due slip and circulation pocket on back paste-down; in pen on free front end-paper: "ex munificentia ac liberalitate eruditissimi Dni. D. Petri Cocquel sacres theologiae licentiati, Collegii Regii Regenti, nec non in signis ecclesies Collegiates Divi Petri Canonici Primus e Logica ac Phisicam Nicolaus Carolus Turpin insulensis."

Burns Library copy 3: paper label on front paste-down: "Bib. Coll. Pictav. S.J."; on t.p.: stamp: "Dom. S. Aloys. Cantiliac. S.J."; in pen on t.p.: "Convent[u]s Sti. Joseph Perginianen. ...r. Car... Discalceriorum."

Ex library stamp on verso of t.-p. and on p. 74 of final numbering sequence: Bibliothèque de la ville de Roanne.

Copy 2 incomplete: p. xxi, 2 pages of plates and all following p. 448 wanting.

Burns Library copy 1: incomplete: p. [x]-[xi] wanting.

Burns Library copy 2: incomplete: p. xxi, 2 pages of plates and all following p. 448 wanting.

Burns Library copy 3: complete

Burns Library copy 1: calf on paper-boards, cover in paper; front board split from binding

Burns Library copy 2: full leather on paper-boards; blind tooling on spine; box: "Alcazar Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalyspi Lyons 1618."

Burns Library copy 3: full leather on paper-boards; gilt panel on back: "Alcasar in Apocalypsim"

c.1: 01/02 1098R

c.2: 01/02 1099R

c.3: 01/02 1097R