Live auction - Lot 946
[Patristics]
De Latinis SS. Biblioruminterpretibus sententia.Nicephori [...] Canon Scripturarum cum Anastasii S.R.E. bibliothecarii interpretatione.
[Paris], s.n., 1590
€ 150 / 180
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Lot description
8vo: 23-[1 bl.] pp. (marginal dampstaining, some soiling).
Disbound. Good copy.
Extr. rare editio princeps of the "Bible Canon" of the Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople (758-828), together with its 1st Latin translation by the Vatican Librarian Anastasius (810-878). The French humanist lawyer Pierre Pithou (1539-1596) also added an essay on patristic Bible translation. Ref. Pettegree FB 83017. - Cp. Hoffmann III:132 (later ed. only). - Not in Adams, BP16, STC French (BL).
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