Complete Works of Pope Leo the Great (1546) - Page 2

⚠The page is heavily stained, foxed, and exhibits physical damage with tears and loss of material along the right and bottom edges. Some manuscript notes are faint.

7,500 This figure likely represents a price or a specific inventory number in a collection.

Compare Treatises, 1st [edition]?

original French/Latin: "Cfr Traictons 1^e"

First edition

In folio

folio: A book size resulting from folding a full sheet of paper just once, creating large pages.

A rectangular white sticker featuring a circular emblem. The emblem contains a white bird (a pelican in its piety A traditional alchemical and Christian symbol of sacrifice, where the mother bird feeds her young with her own blood.) perched on a nest, set against a dark blue background. The border of the circle is gold and bears the inscription "HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY" original Latin: "PHILOSOPHIA HERMETICA". Below the bird is a small square shield divided into four sections with colored circles (red, yellow, blue, and green).

* 6 * * 4. A to N 6
[including] 1 blank leaf original French: "f blanc"
q 26 — AA to dd 6
EE FF 4 GG 6 —

This final section is a "collation formula," a shorthand used by bibliographers to describe the physical structure of a book—specifically how many sheets were folded and how the sections (signatures) are labeled from A to Z.