Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GREGORY of Nyssa, Saint. Mystica Mosaicae vitae enarratio, perfectam formulam vivendi, cuilibet Christiano prescribens. Latin translation by George of Trebizond. Title within woodcut historiated border; printer's woodcut device at end. 111, [1] pages. 4to, 203x149 mm, old vellum boards with spine title in ink, recased, endpapers renewed; scattered light foxing, title soiled with leaf from early printed Martyrologium Romanum mounted on verso, printer's name inked out in colophon at end. Verona Capuchin inscription on title and stamp on next and last leaves. Basel: (Andreas Cratander), 1521

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Second edition of a work by the 4th-century theologian and Bishop of Nyssa on Moses as a spiritual exemplar, first published in 1517. The Greek original text first appeared in a 1593 collection of the author's selected writings. Hoffmann II, 188.