SIMLER, JOSIAS, editor. Scripta veterum latina, de una persona et duabus naturis domini et servatoris nostri Jesu Christi, adversus Nestorium, Eutychen & Acephalos olim aedita. [12], 211, [1] leaves, including final blank. Folio, 266x185 mm, 19th-century boards, worn, white ink shelf number on spine; dampstaining in upper margin of opening leaves and upper inner corners toward end, occasional marginal soiling, scattered underscoring, blank portions of title torn, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp, accession number on next leaf, rear free endpaper lacking. Zurich: Christoph Froschouer, 1571
first edition of an anthology of patristic christological texts, concluding with a historical survey by Simler of controversies on the subject in the early church.
