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Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Sanctissima Eloqventissimaqve Opera ¶ Commentarij in epistolas Pauli ¶Contra Gentiles Liber vnus ¶De incarnatione Verbi . ¶Disputatio contra Arrium. ¶In vim Psalmorum opusculum. ¶Exhortatio ad Monachos. ¶De passione Imaginis domini nostri Libellus. ¶Epistolæ nonnullæ Romanorum Pontificum ad Athanasium et Atanasij ad eosdem. ¶Que̜ omnia olimiam latina facta Christophoro Porsena Ambrosio Monacho Angelo Politiano interpretibus vna cum doctissima Erasmi Roterodani sic ad pium lectorem paraclesi. Bound with Basilii Magni Caesariensium in Cappadocia Antistitis sanctissimi opera plane diuina variis e locis sedulo collecta: & accuratione ac impensis Iodici Badii Ascensii recognita & coimpressa quorum index proxima pandetur charta

1520 · 909 — <p>Paris: Joanne Paruo i.e. Jean Petit with Venundantur eidem Ascensio i.e. Badius Ascensius 1520. Bound in Alum-tawed pigskin elaborately tooled in blind over wooden boards with metal and leather clasps; one clasp perished. Binding with one corner tip broken off; small hole in leather on rear board; dust-soiled. Inside some early marginalia and underlining in red; narrow arc of old light water staining to fore-edges of one part. Pages generally very clean. This is a pleasing copy of two substantial books edited and assembled by very notable scholars_ _contemporary to the publications of the works. Two Folios bound together; leaf size: 32 x 22 cm. Signatures: ad. I a-z8&8A-H8I6K8 aaa-ggg6hhh4iii6iii6 is blank & present ad. IIA¹0 a-x⸠yⶠzâ´ Both are first editions of quite influential books. Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard Bibliographie des impres Paris I908s II I46 and BL STC France 16th cent.; Ind Aur III 311; Wierda 2006; p. 210 nr. 40 p. 42; Moreau 1511-1520: 2246; Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du 16. sie_Ì€cle . Bade-438/. St. Athanasius's text was translated into Latin by three noted Renaissance scholars and edited by Nicholas Beraldus and has the added prestige of apparatus by Erasmus. The title-page is printed within a four-piece woodcut border with the title in red and black and the page bears the famous Petit printer's device. The St. Basil is from Badius Ascensius's press and he acted as the editor the translators having been Johannes Argyropoulos Georgius Trapezuntius and otherssee above and below . The title-page uses the same four-part woodcut title-page border as found on the St. Athanasius bound in at the front which makes much sense given the familial relationship between Ascensius and Petit. <br />Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard Bibliographie des impres Paris I908s II I46<br /><br />Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief of Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of "Father of Orthodoxy" by which he has been distinguished ever since. "Athanasius the Apostolic was the 20th bishop of Alexandria as Athanasius I. His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years c. 8 June 328 – _2 May 373 of which over encompassed five exiles when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Christian theologian a Church Father the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism and a noted Coptic Christian Egyptian leader of the fourth century. Athanasius' earliest work Against the Heathen – _On the Incarnation written before 319 bears traces of Origenist Alexandrian thought such as repeatedly quoting Plato and using a definition from Aristotle's Organon but in an orthodox way. Athanasius was also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools and with the developments of Neo-Platonism. Ultimately Athanasius would modify the philosophical thought of the School of Alexandria away from the Origenist principles such as the "entirely allegorical interpretation of the text". Still in later works Athanasius quotes Homer more than once Hist. Ar. 68 Orat. iv. 29. Athanasius was not a speculative theologian. As he stated in his First Letters to Serapion he held on to "the tradition teaching and faith proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers." He held that not only was the Son of God consubstantial with the Father but so was the Holy Spirit which had a great deal of influence in the development of later doctrines regarding the Trinity. <br /><br />Athanasius' "Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea" De Decretis is an important historical as well as theological account of the proceedings of that council and another letter from 367 is the first known listing of all those books now accepted as the New Testament.<br />With <br />Basil the Great is sapientissimus potentissimus sanctissimus piissimus. <br />This volume includes the following works: the Hexameron translated by Argyro- pulos for Sixtus IV; Adversus Eunomium translated by George of Trebizond at the re- quest of Cardinal Bessarion and sent by him to Eugenius IV; Gregory Nazianzen's funeral oration on Basil the Great in the translation of Raphael Volaterranus; a large selection of Basil's sermons and several letters also translated by Volaterranus; and finally the De institutis monarchorum RuEinus' transation adaptation and fusion of Basil's two monastic rules the Regulaefusius tractatae and Regulae brevius tractatae. Texts in Migne P.G. XXIX XXX XXXI and F. Boulenger Gre'goire de NazEanze. Dis- coursfunebres en l'honneur de sonfrere Ce'saire et de Basile de Cesarete Paris I908 pp. S8-23I. Argyropulos' Hexameron was sent to Badius from Rome by Lefevre fol. Ir and Badius' preface: 'Nuper autem divi Basilii vere magni monumenta aeterna cedro dignissima ab urbe Roma ad nos usque perlata hinc ad negocia sua profecturus prelo nostro commisit'. It and the translations of Volaterranus had been printed in Rome by Mazochius in September and December ISIS Panzer vm 255 no. 92 and 256 no. 9S; inJune ISo8 Matthias Schurer had printed Basilfi Oratio de invidia Nic. Perotfo interprete in Strasbourg Panzer VI 42 no. I3I; the letters on reading the pagan classics and on the solitary life were well known; but Badius' is the first printing of so important a collection of Basil's works.</p> Joanne Paruo [i.e., Jean Petit] with Venundantur eidem Ascensio [i.e., Badius Ascensius