Lot n° 229

PHILO Alexandrinus.- Lucubrationes quotquot haberi potuerunt, Latinae factae per Sigismundum Gelenum [...].

Estimation : 800 / 1000
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Basileae, (apud Nic. Episcopium, Jun.) 1558. 2 vol. in-8° with continued pagination : [14]-[2 bl.]-1/774, 777/1526-[2 bl.]-[102] pp. (some foxing or stains, small perforations and 1 tear in the margins in vol. II, very fresh condition, ms. provenance from an ecclesiastical library). Contemporary binding : pigskin on wooden boards fully blindstamped, boards decorated with fillets and ornamental roll-stamps, ribbed spine, brass clasps (library labels on the spine, small lacks and wormholes in vol. I, boards of vol. II cracked). Third edition of the translation from the Greek by the scholar Sigmund Gelen (1st ed. of the transl. : 1554) of this collection of biblical commentaries by Philo of Alexandria (c. 25 BC-c. 45), a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher. With the "De mortuorum resurrectione" commonly attributed to the Father of the Church Athenagoras (c. 133-c. 190), first complete exposition of the doctrine in Christian literature, and with the "De immortalitate animarum, et corporum resurrectione" of Aeneas of Gaza (+ c. 1518), Neo-Platonic philosopher. Text decorated with ornemental initials and the marks of Episcopius on the title-pages and on the back of last leaves.
# Adams P-1029; # VD16 ZV 12448 and 12449; # Biogr. univ. XXXIII-138/140; # Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche VIII-242/244; # not in Soltész (other ed.), USTC (id.), Machiels.
Troisième édition de la traduction des commentaires bibliques par le philosophe juif helléniste Philon d'Alexandrie. Pleine peau de truie sur ais de bois estampées à froid (qqs rouss. ou taches, bonne condition).
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