Author: SYNESIUS of Cyrene ( Bishop of Ptolemais ) - Frédéric Morel ( editor ) - Franciscus PORTUS ( professor of Greek in the university of Geneva ) :
Title: Synesii Cyrenaei Episcopi epistolae ; Graecis cum antiquis MSS....collatis. Cum interpretatione Latina viri eruditissimi [i.e. F. Portus] & Notis.
Description: .: Paris, ex officina Typographica Claudij Morelli, via Iacobæa ad insigne Fontis, 1605, in-8°, (16) nn pp + 623 pp + (1)(bl) (complete). Bound in contemporary vellum, brown coloured smooth spine with manuscript title in white ( a bit faded), modern title label tipped on to the front cover, first fly leaf with dark waterstains and a cut out. Second and third quire (A,B) which were obviously printed on a lesser paper quality with some browning, otherwise a very fine copy. Paris edition of 156 letters of Synesius of Cyrene (c. 373 - c. 414) edited by Frédéric Morel le jeune (1553-1630) and with the notes by Franciscus Portus ( in Italian Francesco Porto ) (1511 - 1581). He was born on Crete and stayed for a while at the court of Ferrara. He settled in Geneva in 1562 where he was appointed to the chair of Greek at the University of Geneva. The edition is bi-lingual with the Greek and Latin texts on opposite pages.. .

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