Title: Epistol[a]e sanctissimoru[m] sequenti codice conte[n]tae
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">4to. ff. [1] (blank), [2], xcii (last p. blank). Signatures: a-l8
m4. Calf. Gilt boards and spine. Imprint and date from colophon.
Initials.Printe d annotations. Jean Petit’s printer's device on title page.
Full-page woodcut representing Bishop Caspar de Tournon of Valenciennes
(1503-1520) kneeling in front of St. Antonius writing. Stamp of Stock &
Reference Library of H.P. Kraus; stamp "AJF". Seller's printed note
pasted.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bound with Athanasius of Alexandria, Eustathian Evagrius of
Antioch (trans.), Jakob Sobius (ed.), Vita beati Antonij monachi ægyptii a
beato Athanasio Alexandrinæ urbis episcopo. græco conscripta eloquio, & a
sancto Euagrio presbytero Anthiochiæ inde co[n]stituto episcopo in latina[m]
lingua[m] [qua] elegantissime traducta. Huic Subiicitur Vita Beati Pauli Primi
& precipui eremi cultoris. elega[n]tissime a Divo Hieronymo presbytero
conscripta. [Paris, 1516?].</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">A group of apocryphal letters purporting to be written by (among
others) St. Anthony, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus. The full quota of the letters
of St. Ignatius of Antioch (seven probably genuine, six spurious, written
around the fifth century) may appear here in print for the first time: see
Catholic Encyclopaedia, s.v. Ignatius, and (for the two discrete series of
Ignatian fabrications), B. D. Ehrman, Forgery and Counterforgery. The Use of
Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. Oxford, 2013, pp. 460-62; P.
Allut, Étude biographique & bibliographique sur Symphorien Champier. Lyon,
p. xvii.</span></p><p></p>

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University catalog record.</span></a></span></p><p></p>