Athanasii episcopi Alexandrini sanctissima, eloquentissimaque opera:
Paris: Ioanne Paruo (Jean Petit), 1519.
First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Item #048644
First part dated 1518, second 1519. Later overlapping parchment. browned, new endpapers. Some soiling to title page, top edge excised, likely for a signature, page numbers added to upper right in pencil, slight scattered browning, light dampstain to upper edge of final leaves. A nice wide margined copy, two parts in one with the integral blank between them. Rubricated throughout. [6], 255, [1 bl.], 64 ff.
Scarce edition with the important commentary on Paul's Epistles here attributed to Athanasius but actually by Theophylact of Ohrid. They were a "profound influence" on Erasmus' new testament and his In Praise of Folly (Obolensky, Six Byzantine Portraits, 1988). 22 copies in OCLC but only 3 in the US. Rare in commerce.
contains: Commentari in Epistolas Pauli, Contra gentiles liber unus : De incarnatione Verbi, eiusque ad nos per corpus aduentum : Disputatio contra Arrium : In uim Psalmorum opusculum : Exhortatio ad Monachos : De passione imaginis domini nostri libellus : Epistolæ nonnullæ Romanorum pontificum ad Athanasium, et Athanasii ad eosdem Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 048644.
Price: $3,500.00