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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS, EDITOR. 1466-1536. CYPRIAN (Saint, Bishop of Carthage). Opera divi caecilii cypriani episcopi carthaginensis. Basel: Johann Froben, 1520.
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ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS, EDITOR. 1466-1536.
CYPRIAN (Saint, Bishop of Carthage). Opera divi caecilii cypriani episcopi carthaginensis. Basel: Johann Froben, 1520.
Folio (302 x 200 mm). Title within historiated woodcut border by Ambrosius Holbein, dedication within decorative woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative woodcut initials. Nudity defaced in woodcut title border and a few other places probably by an early owner, and before it was bound with the other work. Contemporary blind-stamped half pigskin and old manuscript on vellum over paste boards, dated 1627 with gilt initial "DFN," edges red.
FIRST EDITION of the work of Saint-Cyprien edited by Erasmus from recently discovered manuscripts. VD16 C6508.
[BOUND WITH]: FULGENTIUS, Saint, Bishop of Ruspe. Opera ... Item Opera Maxentii Johannis. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer and Johannes Cochlaeus. Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, 1520. Folio, general title within border by Urs Graf, divisional title within woodcut borders, large woodcut initials, including final leaf with poem by the editor, colophon, and printer's device. first edition. Two 6th-century text by Fathers of the Church edited by the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). Adams F-1136; BMC/STC German 327; VD-16 F-3355. [AND:] THEOPHYLACTE DE BULGARIE. De occursu domini nostri Jesu Christi... Chrysostomi..., Cyrilli... et Timothei... Cologne: A. Birckmann, 1568. Folio, printed in two columns in Greek and Latin.
Folio (302 x 200 mm). Title within historiated woodcut border by Ambrosius Holbein, dedication within decorative woodcut border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative woodcut initials. Nudity defaced in woodcut title border and a few other places probably by an early owner, and before it was bound with the other work. Contemporary blind-stamped half pigskin and old manuscript on vellum over paste boards, dated 1627 with gilt initial "DFN," edges red.
FIRST EDITION of the work of Saint-Cyprien edited by Erasmus from recently discovered manuscripts. VD16 C6508.
[BOUND WITH]: FULGENTIUS, Saint, Bishop of Ruspe. Opera ... Item Opera Maxentii Johannis. Edited by Willibald Pirckheimer and Johannes Cochlaeus. Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, 1520. Folio, general title within border by Urs Graf, divisional title within woodcut borders, large woodcut initials, including final leaf with poem by the editor, colophon, and printer's device. first edition. Two 6th-century text by Fathers of the Church edited by the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). Adams F-1136; BMC/STC German 327; VD-16 F-3355. [AND:] THEOPHYLACTE DE BULGARIE. De occursu domini nostri Jesu Christi... Chrysostomi..., Cyrilli... et Timothei... Cologne: A. Birckmann, 1568. Folio, printed in two columns in Greek and Latin.