De constitutionibus apostolicis, B. Clemente Romano auctore, libri octo, Nunc primùm è tenebris eruti, & ad orthodoxam fidem astruendam apprimè utiles. Io. Carolo Bovio, Episcopo Ostunensi interprete [...]

Full title: De constitutionibus apostolicis, B. Clemente Romano auctore, libri octo, Nunc primùm è tenebris eruti, & ad orthodoxam fidem astruendam apprimè utiles. Io. Carolo Bovio, Episcopo Ostunensi interprete. Eiusdem scholia in loca, quae dubitationem aliquam habere videntur. Rerum, & verborum memorabilium Index.

4to. ff. [16], 152, [12] (some errors in page numbering). Signatures: A⁴ 2*⁴ 3*⁴ 4*⁴ B-2T⁴. Half vellum. Gilded spine with brown lettering panel. Red bookmark. Many pencil notes on endpapers, some in ink. Stamps of Bibliotheca Puseiana Oxon. Zileti's device, a comet, on title page.

The first complete Latin edition of the ‘Apostolic Constitutions,’ which profess to have been drawn up by the apostles and edited by Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement I), but were in fact written in the fourth century.

See A. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger. A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford & New York, 1993, II, p. 700 n. 47; H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, A1335.

See Bib# 4102652/Fr# 84 in this collection for Clemens’s ‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562).

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