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mei/00202789 Auct. 4Q 6.11.
[00202789]
Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Auct. 4Q 6.11.
ISTC No.ip00575000
TitlePharetra fidei Catholicae contra Judaeos
ImprintLeipzig : Arnoldus de Colonia, [about 1494]
NoteProvenance: Catalogue of a Collection of Theological and Miscellaneous Books . . . (London: Puttick & Simpson, 29 Apr. 1885), lot 244 (7); pencil note in the guttering of A1r.
NoteProvenance: Catalogue of a Collection of Theological and Miscellaneous Books . . . (London: Puttick & Simpson, 29 Apr. 1885), lot 244 (7); pencil note in the guttering of A1r.