Author: Prosper (of Aquitaine, Saint):
Title: Opera Accurata exemplarium vetustorum collatione a mendis penè innumeris repurgata. Quid verò in hac editione præter ditissimum indicem, tam scripturarum quàm rerum accesserit, pagina septima demonstrat.
Description: Coloniæ Agrippinæ [Cologne]: Excudebat Arnoldus Kempensis, sumptibus Ioannis Crithii, 1609 8vo., pp. [xvi], 903, [xlvii]. Printer's woodcut device to title-page with motto 'Reru[m] vigilantia custos', woodcut initials. Occasional underlining in an old hand. A little light foxing and some small ink spots, a few leaves of index trimmed close just touching headline. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine and fore-edge, remains of ties, fore-edges slightly overlapped. Spine a little concave, smudgy marks, both pastedowns lifted and tattered with some loss, still very good. In an old hand, ownership inscription of Thos. Baddeley to ffep and title-page, with some tiny neatly-written notes. Dedication signed by I. Oliverius (Johannes Oliverius of Ghent). St Prosper of Aquitaine (c.390-c.463) was, writes Abbé L. Valentin 'much more famous for what he wrote than for what he did' (St. Prosper d'Aquitaine. Paris, 1900). His writings primarily comprised the defence and distribution of the teachings of St Augustine of Hippo, especially those concerning grace and free will. He was also the first writer to continue St Jerome's Chronicon. Though his Epitoma Chronicon was criticised it is especially useful for the period 425-455 (about which he wrote from personal experience) due to the scarcity of other sources. BM STC German 1601-1700, P1188.

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