Shelfmark
Fe.1.01-Fe.1.03
Author
Basil, approximately 329 - 379 Saint, Bishop of Caesarea,
Uniform title
[Works. Latin & Greek. 1618]
Title
Sancti Patris nostri Basilii Magni Cæsareæ Cappadociæ Archiepiscopi, Opera omnia, quæ reperiri potuerunt. : Nunc primum Græcè & Latinè coniunctim edita, in duos tomos distributa, & doctissimorum virorum industriacum manuscriptis codicibus, præcipue Bibliotheca Christianissimi Regis, collata: cum in Graeco textu, tum in Latina versione correcta & illustrata, ac ducentis quatiordecim Epistolis aucta. Accessit Appendix, quæ seorsim conciones à Symeone Magistro excerptas, & notas continet, quibus varia eiusdem auctoris loca emendantur ...
Varying form of title
Appendix ad Sancti Basilii Magni opera Græco-Latina
Varying form of title
Sancti Patris nostri Basilii Magni Cæsareæ Cappadociæ Archiepiscopi, Operum tomus II
Varying form of title
Sancti Patris nostri Basilii Magni opera Græco Latina
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis, : Apud Michaelem Sonnium, via Iacobæa, sub scuto Basiliensi., M DCXVIII [1618]
Physical description
3 v. : ill., port. ; 36 cm., fol.
Note
Parallel Greek and Latin text with printed marginalia.
Note
The 'M' and 'D' in the date are made up of reverse 'C'.
Note
Vol 3 has title: 'Appendix ad Sancti Basilii Magni opera Græco-Latina'.
Note
Vol 2 has title: 'Sancti Patris nostri Basilii Magni Cæsareæ Cappadociæ Archiepiscopi, Operum tomus II' ; date of imprint misprinted as 'MDXVIII'.
Note
Vol 1 with engraved frontispiece portrait of the author on the verso of the half title page.
Note
Title pages printed in red and black; woodcut title devices; woodcut head-pieces and initials.
Note
Half title page to vol 1: 'Sancti Patris nostri Basilii Magni opera Græco Latina'.
Note
Vol 1 p. 393 mispaginated as 403 ; vol 2 pp. 551 and 552 repeated and then sequence continues, p. 722 mispaginated as 723, and p. 785 as 727.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on title-page of vols 1 and 2 and on p. 731 of vol 2: "Ex dono Edm: Whitfield Socij. 1693." Edmund Whitfield was K.S. at Eton from 1663, and became a Fellow in 1691, died 1693/4. See Sterry, Eton College Register, p. 363.
Binding
17th century Oxford binding of brown speckled calf, with five raised bands, blind tooled triple fillet on boards and blind hatching on pine ends, with gilt lettering enclosed in a gilt fillet on spines ; guards of late 17th century printed material.
Copy-specific note
Index of vol 1 bound between contents and text of of vol 2.
Copy-specific note
Vol 2 from p. 731 bound with vol 3.
Copy-specific note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil and ink.
Copy-specific note
Ms. titles on fore-edge.
Subject
Theology Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sermons Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Sonnius, Michel, 1564 - 1630 publisher.
Added entry--name
Whitfield, Edmund former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B30644