Areopagitica sue Opuscula quaedam nusquam hactenus excusa [...] cum Matthaei Galeni Vestcappellij [...] praefatione [...].

8vo, 147-[1] ff. (sl. toned, tear in inner margin of title, some worming in blank margins).

Mod. calf, spine with gilt label, red sp. edges. Good copy.

Very rare early ed. of texts of Hilduin (775-855), abbot of St Denis, by the Flemish theologian M. Galenus (1528-1573). Hilduin, a pupil of Alcuin, was in 835 commissioned by Emperor Louis to write a biography of St. Dionysius of Paris, the emperor’s particular patron saint. Hilduin executed this commission, with the aid of the pseudo-Dionysius’s writings, a copy of which had been sent to the Frankish court by the Byzantine Emperor Michael II, and of other authorities. In his "Vita" Hilduin identified Dionysius of Paris with the Areopagite Dionysius, a view not generally accepted at that time, but which Hilduin’s biography popularized for several centuries, until Sismondi and others dispelled this error. Woodcut mark at the end. Printed in italics (pt. 1) and roman (pt. 2). Ref. VD-16 H-3666. - Not in Adams, STC German (BL). Prov. Old ownership entry on (old) flyleaf (crossed out).