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DIONYSIUS, Saint, the Areopagite, pseudo-. Opera quae extant. Greek text. Ruled in red throughout. 3 volumes. 8vo, 17th-century morocco gilt with morocco lettering pieces, cover corners worn, Volume 1 front joint chipped at bottom; preliminaries in each volume somewhat browned, contents otherwise generally clean. Ownership inscription and collation notes of the classical scholar Henry Drury; 19th-century armorial bookplates of Edward Gregory. Paris: Guillaume Morel, 1562-62-61
Third collected edition in Greek of the late 5th-/early 6th-century works of mystical theology attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, also containing the first editions of the paraphrase of his writings by Georgius Pachymeres and the commentary by St. Maximus of Constantinople, as well as the previously published encomium of Dionysius by Michael Syncellus. Adams D520; Hoffmann I, 576-77, II, 164 and 584; Sarton I, 406.
