root of Jesse."

Following the usual alphabetical order of the signatures (A-Z, aaa-eee),
the _Index rerum et sententiarum_ (sign. U-Z) is here placed before the
_Interpretationes_ (sign. aaa-eee). This is contrary to the direction of
the _Collectio codicum_ found on the last leaf of the _Index_ (Z6),
where the order prescribed is A-T, aaa-eee, U-Z, which is further
supported by the colophon and printer's device on Z6. The _Index_ as the
latest supplement was meant to stand at the end of the volume.

Bound in oak boards covered with stamped leather, brass corners and
bosses, gilt gauffred edges. Around the central boss of the back cover
is stamped the date A.D. 1571, and on the front cover, in corresponding
position and order, the initials F E P L P F.

From the Osterley Park sale, May, 1885, with the book-plate of Victor
Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey. Leaf 6-1/2 × 4-1/2 in.


36. PHILO JUDÆUS. De divinis decem oraculis. Lutetiæ, apud Carolum
Stephanum, 1554.

TITLE: Philonis Iudæi DE DIVINIS DECEM oraculis, quæ summa sunt legum
capita Liber, Iohanne Væuræo interprete. [Printer's device] LVTETIAE,
Apud Carolum Stephanum, Typographum Regium. M.D.LIIII.

Octavo. 72 numbered pages, followed by one leaf _Ad lectorem_ and
one blank. Pp. 3-6, dedication by the translator to Charles de
Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine, Archbishop of Reims, to whom was also
dedicated the first edition of the works of Philo in Greek, printed