1583 GREGORY NAZIANZEN COMPLETE WORKS 4th Century Patristics,Archbishop,Theology

Description

This is a post-Incunable and is one of those very rare
instances indeed
where the
second edition far out-values
the first, which did not
contain all of his writings.
This edition is exhaustive
due to newly discovered
manuscripts, thus more valuable than the 1571 edition
and far, far scarcer.  It also has
always
far out-sold the
actual First Edition because of this.
This is the very rare folio of Jacob Billius' D. GREGORII NAZIANZENI
COGNOMENTO THEOLOGI OPERA OMNIA QUAE EXTANT, or
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZEN, in
both Latin and Greek.
This is the
definitive
work which has collated
ALL
of the extant material
concerning Gregory of Nazianzen which is still in use today thanks to
Jacob Billus' Second Edition of 1583- this very rare book.
I
t is the 'go to' source for
any and all
Nazianzen scholarship
and has rarely come up for auction,
unlike
the earlier
and
incomplete
first edition.
It truly is a magnificent work, the first
complete
, printed works of
ST. GREGORY OF NAZIANZEN. Nazianzen (330-390), a Cappadocian
Theologian, was a 4th century christian mystic and one of the fore-fathers
of the Greek Church. He was a companion of St. Basil the Great who
appointed him to his first bishopric. He later became Bishop of Constantinople.
This is the much rarer and fuller, Second Edition by Iacobo Billio (Jacob Billius),
printed in Paris in 1583. The book is a 14 inch folio in full, hand-tooled
leather with a Gold Gilt decorated cover and gold gilt decorated, ribbed
spine. The binding has been professionally restored with new endpapers
and the book is printed on heavy rag paper.
The book measures approximately 9 inches wide by around
13 4/5 inches high.
The book is in GOOD++ to near VERY GOOD CONDITION with
respect to grading antiquarian volumes and has heavy foxing and
some
soiling
throughout as shown, and no missing pages, a few edge dings.
There
is a small tearing of the paper on the title page beneath the ex-libris
stamp to the right of the publisher's large colophon which can only be
seen from the verso, thus the last photo shows the small tearing. It only
shows when the page is turned, thus is only mentioned for accuracy.
Firm binding, 1,046 pages + 3.
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