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HIERONYMUS. C.342-420. Epistolae. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 1497.
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HIERONYMUS. C.342-420.
Epistolae. Ferrara: Laurentius de Rubeis, de Valentia, 1497.
BOUND WITH: LUPUS DE OLIVETO. Regula monachorum es epistolis Hieronymi.
Folio (330 x 235 mm). 2 xylographic titles, 188 column-width woodcuts, 5 full-page woodcuts with elaborate borders, woodcut initials, double column text. Translated from the Latin by Niccolò di Berto; second work translated by Matteo da Ferrara. Modern calf by Courtland Benson, elaborately gilt in period style. Front paste-down with small bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Washed, with vague soiling on first few leaves, one title slightly trimmed at outer margin, wormhole affecting the first 39 leaves but with virtually no damage to text.
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, and first Illustrated Edition. The woodcuts mostly show scenes of the life of Jerome, typically at his desk and almost always accompanied by the lion. One of the greatest Christian scholars of his age, Saint Jerome was a translator, scriptural commentator, biographer, and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies, and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614; Sander 3404.
BOUND WITH: LUPUS DE OLIVETO. Regula monachorum es epistolis Hieronymi.
Folio (330 x 235 mm). 2 xylographic titles, 188 column-width woodcuts, 5 full-page woodcuts with elaborate borders, woodcut initials, double column text. Translated from the Latin by Niccolò di Berto; second work translated by Matteo da Ferrara. Modern calf by Courtland Benson, elaborately gilt in period style. Front paste-down with small bookplate of H. P. Kraus. Washed, with vague soiling on first few leaves, one title slightly trimmed at outer margin, wormhole affecting the first 39 leaves but with virtually no damage to text.
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN, and first Illustrated Edition. The woodcuts mostly show scenes of the life of Jerome, typically at his desk and almost always accompanied by the lion. One of the greatest Christian scholars of his age, Saint Jerome was a translator, scriptural commentator, biographer, and historian who is chiefly remembered for his creation of the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, a translation that represents an enduring contribution to Western culture. He frequently participated as one of the most heated of partisans in various theological controversies, and his disputations and protestations in connection with such debates comprise a good deal of the text of the letters contained here. Goff H-178; BMC VI, 614; Sander 3404.