De constitutionibus apostolicis, B. Clemente Romano auctore, libri octo, Nunc primùm è tenebris eruti, & ad orthodoxam fidem astruendam apprimè utiles. Io. Carolo Bovio, Episcopo Ostunensi interprete [...]
Publisher: ex Officina Iordani Zileti Giordano Ziletti
Published: 1563
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Number of pages: 370
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> De constitutionibus apostolicis, B. Clemente Romano auctore, libri octo, Nunc primùm è tenebris eruti, &amp; ad orthodoxam fidem astruendam apprimè utiles. Io. Carolo Bovio, Episcopo Ostunensi interprete. Eiusdem scholia in loca, quae dubitationem aliquam habere videntur. Rerum, &amp; verborum memorabilium Index.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4to. ff. [16], 152, [12] (some errors in page numbering). Signatures: A⁴ 2*⁴ 3*⁴ 4*⁴ B-2T⁴. Half vellum. Gilded spine with brown lettering panel. Red bookmark. Many pencil notes on endpapers, some in ink. Stamps of Bibliotheca Puseiana Oxon. Zileti's device, a comet, on title page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first complete Latin edition of the ‘Apostolic Constitutions,’ which profess to have been drawn up by the apostles and edited by Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement I), but were in fact written in the fourth century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See A. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger. A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford &amp; New York, 1993, II, p. 700 n. 47; H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, A1335.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">See Bib# 4102652/Fr# 84 in this collection for Clemens’s ‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039106549707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>