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PHOTIUS, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople. Bibliotheke tou Photiou. Librorum quos legit Photius Patriarcha excerpta et censurae. Greek text; edited by David Hoeschel. [12], 985 pages. Folio, 324x210 mm, 17th-century vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, missing vellum from bottom spine compartment and bottom portion of front cover; minor marginal dampstaining through much of volume, title soiled, with perforated stamp of Meadville Theological School. Booklabels of the Unitarian scholar and educator Frederic Huidekoper (1817-92). Augsburg: (Johannes Praetorius), 1601
first edition of the chief work by a 9th-century Byzantine scholar, consisting of a critical account of 280 works read by him, many of which are now lost. Hoffmann III, 88; Sarton I, 594.
