PYTHAGORAS; et al Opus aureum et scholasticum in quo contine

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PYTHAGORAS; et al. Opus aureum et scholasticum, in quo continentur Pythagorae carmina aurea, Phocylidis, Theognidis, & aliorum poemata [etc.]. Greek text with Latin translation by Michael Neander and notes by Neander and Lorenz Rhodoman. 789, [3]; 268, [16]; 191 pages. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, 215x166 mm, modern vellum boards with thong ties; occasional marginal foxing or browning, restoration along edges of general title and next several leaves, pages 82-83 and 86-87 of Coluthus in second part left blank through printer's error. Leipzig: (Johannes Steinmann, 1577)

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Massive collection of Greek gnomic or moralizing poems and apophthegms, also containing the verse epics on the Trojan War by Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, and Quintus of Smyrna (the last in an excerpt), and Lucian of Samosata's Gallus, a comic dialogue based on the Pythagorean doctrine of reincarnation. Hoffmann III, 234-35.

bound with: Apostolorum et sanctorum conciliorum decreta. Greek text and Latin translation, edited by Elias Ehinger. [18], 456, [26] pages; lacks the portrait. Contents browned, oxidized stains in upper outer corner of last 2 leaves. Wittenberg: heirs of Lorenz Säuberlich for Samuel Seelfisch, 1614. first ehinger edition of the Apostolic Canons and decrees of the early Church Synods through the Second Council of Nicaea.