Epistol[a]e sanctissimoru[m] sequenti codice conte[n]tae

4to. ff. [1] (blank), [2], xcii (last p. blank). Signatures: a-l8 m4. Calf. Gilt boards and spine. Imprint and date from colophon. Initials.Printe d annotations. Jean Petit’s printer's device on title page. Full-page woodcut representing Bishop Caspar de Tournon of Valenciennes (1503-1520) kneeling in front of St. Antonius writing. Stamp of Stock & Reference Library of H.P. Kraus; stamp "AJF". Seller's printed note pasted.

 

Bound with Athanasius of Alexandria, Eustathian Evagrius of Antioch (trans.), Jakob Sobius (ed.), Vita beati Antonij monachi ægyptii a beato Athanasio Alexandrinæ urbis episcopo. græco conscripta eloquio, & a sancto Euagrio presbytero Anthiochiæ inde co[n]stituto episcopo in latina[m] lingua[m] [qua] elegantissime traducta. Huic Subiicitur Vita Beati Pauli Primi & precipui eremi cultoris. elega[n]tissime a Divo Hieronymo presbytero conscripta. [Paris, 1516?].

 

A group of apocryphal letters purporting to be written by (among others) St. Anthony, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus. The full quota of the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch (seven probably genuine, six spurious, written around the fifth century) may appear here in print for the first time: see Catholic Encyclopaedia, s.v. Ignatius, and (for the two discrete series of Ignatian fabrications), B. D. Ehrman, Forgery and Counterforgery. The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. Oxford, 2013, pp. 460-62; P. Allut, Étude biographique & bibliographique sur Symphorien Champier. Lyon, p. xvii.

 

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