Item #042817 Instructiones Adversus Gentium Deos. Pro Christiana Disciplina. Commodianus.
Instructiones Adversus Gentium Deos. Pro Christiana Disciplina
Instructiones Adversus Gentium Deos. Pro Christiana Disciplina
Instructiones Adversus Gentium Deos. Pro Christiana Disciplina

Instructiones Adversus Gentium Deos. Pro Christiana Disciplina

Tulli Leucorum (Toul): S. Belgrand & I. Laurentium, Typographos Regios, 1650.

First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Item #042817
ISBN: NoISBN

Small quarto, full early gilt ruled calf, worn, shipped, front board detached. Front endpaper detached, early and late pages browned, institutional stamp on title and last pages, old pen note in the acrostic instructions, otherwise clean and lightly used. A curious collection of 80 acrostic poems denouncing pagans and Jews. Commodianus was a third century Latin poet and convert to Christianity. Graesse (c 239) has the 1650 as the first edition, there may have been an edition of 1649. 119, [6]; [9]-69, [11] pp. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 042817.

Price: $500.00

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