Limp paper-covered boards
1749 · Venetiis
by Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers (Hilarius)
Venetiis: Apud Jacobum Capellati, 1749. Limp paper-covered boards. Cords separating at sixth leaf of volume 1, boards soiled with a few tears, some wear at extremities, ex-seminary library copy with accession numbers and bookplates on pastedowns, scattered foxing, faint dampstains to margin of fore-edge through cjx of volume 1 and to the margin at the top edge at the hinge of volume 2; overall about very good.. [iv], [xxvi], cxiv, 637 cols. (i.e. 636); xxiv, 584 cols., [72]. Illus. with engraved printer's devices on the title pages, head and tail pieces, and initial letters throughout. Folio (40 cm). Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c.315-367), bishop of Poitiers from c.350, Doctor of the Church, was a convert from paganism, who distinguished himself as a supporter of Athanasius against Arianism. He aided Pope Liberius in the attempted purge of Arianism in the West. This, the Benedictine edition, first published in Paris in 1693, edited, with life of the author, by Pierre Coustant, is perhaps the best. Content: Vol. 1. Praefatio [Maffei] Praefatio generalis [Coustantii] Vita s. Hilarii ex ipsius potissimum scriptis collecta. Vita ejusdem ex Hieronymo de script. eccl. Vitae ejusdem auctore Fortunato libri duo. Petri Damiani sermo de translatione s. Hilarii. Selecta veterum testimonia de S. Hilario. Admonitio in commentarium subsequentum. Opera: Commentari in Psalmos. Commentarii in Matthaeum.; Vol. 2. Libri XII. de Trinitate. Liber de synodis, seu de fide orientalium. Responsa apologetica ad reprehensores superioris libri. Epistola ad Abram. Hymnus matutinus ad eamdem. Liber I. ad Constantium. Liber alter ad eumdem. Liber contra Constantium. Liber contra Auxentium. Fragmenta libri, in quo historia ariminensis & seleuciensis synodi continebatur. Fragmenta ex aliis operibus. Appendix: Carmen in Genesim. Liber de Patris & Filii unitate. Liber de essentia Patris & Filii. Fides Alcuini sub nomine Hilarii graece versa. Nicolai Fabri praefatio in Hilarii Fragmenta. Sillabus mss. ad quos recognita sunt Hilarii Opera. Index triplex scil. locorum Scripturae, tum rerum & sententiarum, postremo glossarum. In double columns. (Inventory #: 26647)