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COMMODIANUS. Instructiones adversus gentium deos pro Christiana disciplina. Edited by Nicolas Rigault. 119 [i. e., 118], [6]; [9]-69, [11] pages. 4to, contemporary calf, spine ends chipped, front cover detached; institutional embossed stamp on title and a few other leaves, contents otherwise generally clean. Toul: S. Belgrand & I. Laurent, 1650
first edition of a collection of millenarian acrostic verse directed against pagans and Jews, one of 2 surviving works by a 3rd-century Christian Latin poet.
