Pandectes scripturae divinitus inspiratae [...] nunc vero primum donatus Latio per Godefridu[m] Tilmannum Cartusiae Parisiensis ex professo monachum [...].

4to: [22]-189-[14, 1 bl.] ff. (title loosening).

Old blind-ruled sheep, spine on 5 raised bands, red edges (rebacked with white pigskin). Good copy.

Latin trsl. by the Paris Carthusian Tilmannus (d. 1561) of the Pandects of Antiochus, a 7th-c. monk of The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (founded 483), an Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley in Palestine. It is a collection of moral sentences, drawn from Scripture and from early ecclesiastical writers. Two large woodcuts. Printed in italics. A few lines in Greek or Hebrew. Ref. BP16 110961. - Adams A-1200. - Pettegree FB 53402. - STC French (BL) Suppl. 4. Prov. A few ms. annotations. - Poem on Bb2r crossed out. - Old ownership entries. - The famous Buxheim Charterhouse of Memmingen, Bavaria (ownership entry and stamp).