ATHANASIUS MAGNUS, St., Patriarch of Alexandria. — Opera,...accessit...Erasmi Roterodami Paraclesis, ipsius que Athanasij vita.

March 1522 Title within fine wide woodcut border of numerous scenes from the lives and miracles of Saints Peter and Phillip. (6), 314 ff. Folio. 17th vellum. (small monastery library stamp on title). Strasbourg, Johannes Knobloch, March 1522. Important collections of Athanasius' works, preceded only in 1519 and 1520 by non-identical editions printed by Jean Petit in Paris. Editors of the present book were Christopher Porsena, St. Ambrosius of Camaldoni, Johannes Reuchlin, and Angelo Poliziano. St. Athanasius Magnus (295-373), bishop of Alexandria, "Father of Orthodoxy" is one of the greatest Church Fathers. He played a leading role against Arianism in the first Council of Nicaea. His "Disputatio contra Arrium" is printed here on ff. CCLXIIr-CCLXXIv as well as Eramus' "Paraclesis ad lectorum plum" on ff. 2-5 at the beginning (VD 16 E 3288), which was printed for the first time in 1516 as the introduction to his NT translation. A.o., the Wolfenbüttel copy lacks index and additional 6 leaves (incl. title) at the beginning. In this present copy the 10 ff. index was originally not bound in.- Some old ms. annotations in the text, otherwise a fine copy. - VD 16 A 3977; Index aur. 109.392; Muller 340; Hoffmann, Griech. I, 389; Adams A-2080; not in Kristeller.