ALCUIN or PAULUS DIACONUS compiler attributed to Homeliae se

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ALCUIN or PAULUS DIACONUS, compiler, attributed to. Homeliae seu mauis: sermones siue co[n]ciones ad populum, praesta[n]tissimoru[m] ecclesiae doctoru[m]: Hieronymi, Augustini, Ambrosij, Gregorij, Origenis, Johan. Chrysostomi, Bedae, Herici, aliorumq[ue]. General title within woodcut historiated border depicting the Evangelists, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and 4 Church Fathers; part 2 title within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of the suicide of Cleopatra, showing asps biting her breasts. 174; 74 leaves. 2 parts in one volume. Folio, 19th-century German boards, some wear; light marginal dampstaining on opening leaves, some early underscoring and marginalia, mostly minor worming at beginning and end not impairing legibility, early inscriptions on general title. 19th-century bookplate of the Lehrer-Bibliothek des Königl. Friedrichs-Gymnasium zu Breslau. Cologne: Hero Alopecius, 1525

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Collection of sermons by Latin Church Fathers and later religious authors, arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar.