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 by Turnebus, Paris 1552. Printed on vellum. On p. 7 a beautiful seven-line engraved initial R. The device is that chosen by the printer's brother Robert, the olive tree and the motto _Noli altum sapere_, without the addition _sed time_.
Renouard, _Annales de l'impr. des Estienne_, 2^e éd., p. 106; adds to his description of the volume the following note: "Dédié au cardinal de Lorraine, pour lequel il en fut tiré sur vélin un exemplaire que depuis l'on a vu relié en maroq. jaune ancien, avec une tête en or sur la couverture. Il a passé dans une Bibliothèque inconnue." The present copy answers completely to this description and is without doubt the dedication copy in question. The binding (17th cent.) is yellow morocco, browned by age, gilt edges, with a medallion head in gold embossed on the back cover. Within are written names of former owners; on the title page _N. Tetel_, _1644 datum Remis_ and _Claude Henry Corrard_; on the cover linings _ex Libris Claudii Tetel ad Mussey_(?); _Ce livre appartient à m^{ lle} Jean Collot_.