Expositio in symbolum apostolorum.

RUFINUS, Tyrranius

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Lot description

[Cologne, U. Zel, ca. 1472

4to: [30] ff., 27 ll. (incl. final blank).

19th-c. Jansenist chestnut morocco by Capé Masson Debonnelle, gilt-titled spine with 5 raised bands, gilt sides, a.e.g., nice gilt inside dentelles, marbled endpapers, cloth marker. Nice wide-margined copy of an early incunable, rubricated at beginning and end.

Editio princeps of the “Commentarius in Symbolum Apostolorum” by Rufinus of Aquileia (344-411), an Italian monk best known as a translator of Greek patristic material into Latin -esp. the work of Origen. This commentary on the Apostles’ Creed gives evidence of its use and interpretation in 4th-c. Italy. Printed in gothic type.
Ref. ISTC ir00351000 - Goff R-351. - IDL 3971. - BMC I:191. - CIBN R-226. - BSB-Ink R-285. - Not in Polain.
Prov. [Georges Petit].