Ff.4.16
Council of Ephesus (431 : Ephesus)
Ta praktika tēs oikoumenikēs tritēs synodou tēs en Ephesō synkrotētheisēs ex thespismatos tōn autokratorōn basileōn Theodosiou kai Oualentinianou kata Nestoriou tou hairetikou. = Acta oecumenicae tertiae synodi Ephesi habitæ ex sanctione Augg. Impp. Theodosij & Valentiniani, aduersus Nestorium hæreticum: Græce nunc primum e Reuchlinianæ Bibliothecæ exemplari peruetusto fideliter expressa. Additus in fine præter Græcum indicem capitum, index Latinus scriptorum quae passim allegantur. Adhæc diuersa locorum lectio & emendationum coniecturæ..
Parallel title: Acta oecumenicae tertiae synodi Ephesi habitae ex sanctione Augg. Impp. Theodosii & Valentiniani, aduersus Nestorium haereticum
Acta oecvmenicae tertiae synodi Ephesi habitae ex sanctione Augg. Impp. Theodosii et Valentiniani, adversus Nestorum haereticum
Heidelbergae, : E typographeio Hieronymi Commelini,, M D XCI. [1591]
[8], 319, [21] p. ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Parallel title and preliminaries in Latin; text in Greek only.
First part of title transliterated from the Greek.
Edited by Hieronymus Commelinus.
Signatures: (:)⁴ A-Z⁶ Aa-Cc⁶ Dd-Ee⁴ Ff⁶.
Woodcut printer's device on title page.
Another issue (Adams, E210) omits the place of publication from the title-page imprint.
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, marginal notes.
Adams, E211
Volume purchased 1598 for £0.6.8. (Audit accounts; see also Birley, Notes on bindings in College Library I, 18).
Engraved bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso.
16th-century brown calf binding; outer and inner borders formed of three blind fillets joined at corners; inner frame composed of a single roll with compartments containing medallions with profile heads and renaissance ornaments; silver-tooled armorial stamp of Eton College on both covers; two brass clasps on front cover with remains of leather straps; chain holes; six raised bands; ms. parchment guards; spine decoration formed of blind fillets with diapering at head and tail. See Oldham "English blind-stamped bindings", HMa. 14, no. 783, for roll.
Previously: Dg.1.08, Am.6.08, Fc.2.01.
Nestorius,, active 428 - ? Patriarch of Constantinople,
Heresy Early works to 1800.
Commelinus, Hieronymus, 1550 - 1597 printer.
Germany Heidelberg.
grc lat
B32549