VINCENT OF LERINS (VINCENTIUS LIRINENSIS)

Vincenti Lirinensis Commonitorium

London, Oxford University 1837, Hardcover. Very Good-. Dk. green cloth bind. rubbed at extremities; backstrip cloth browned, cloth along gutters splitting; lg. black ink stain to front board; owner's names inked on front paste-down; a few leaves nicked at fore-edges, corners bent; leaf edges, paste-downs, eps lightly foxed, else a very sturdy, tight & clean volume. ; Text in Latin; one intro in English.; 12mo; 137 pages

-- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers

Book number: 36499

Catalogue: Religious Denominations: Catholic

Keywords: 5th Century Roman Catholic Theologians Roman Presbyters Roman Catholic Church History Early Christianity Perigrinus Religion Books in Latin Latin Language Reference

VINCENTIUS LERINENSIS - VINCENT DE LERINS - JOHANNES DE COSTER :

Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate et veritate, adversus prophanas omniu hereseon novationes, Libellus vere auteus, ex collatione diversorum exemplarium à multis mendis diligentur repurgatus. Additum est breve commentariolum, per Ioannem Costerium.

Lovanii, (Leuven) apud Ioannem Bogardum, sub Bibliis aureis, Anno 1556, in-16°, 120 x 70 mm, title with woodcut printer's mark, 114 pp (numbered 1-57), in fine: Lovanii, Typis Stephani Valerii Typogr. Iurat, old (17th cent.?) full calf, gilt back, all edges gilt, (turn-ins damaged but a nice clean copy). Ex-libris L.Dimier. B.M.S.T.C. pp 206, not in Adams nor in B.R.Brussels. Second Louvain edition (first in 1552 by A.M.Bergagne) of this anti-heresy text by Vincent de Lerins. The commentary (ca. 35 pp) is by the prior of the Louvain abbey: ''Sint-Maartensdal'' Johannes de Coster (Louvain 1515-1559).. .

-- Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij

Book number: 10000