GREGORIUS NYSSENUS. — Omnia quae extant opera, hactenus studio virorum doctissimorum in latinum sermonem conversa.

Paris, Sebastianus Nivellius, 1573. Folio. [xi[,483 (=966 col.),[23] pp. With large printer's device. BOUND WITH: GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS. Opera omnia, quae quidem extant, nova translatione, donata. Paris, Claude Fremy, 1569. [xlviii],944 pp. Renaissance panelled pigskin over wooden boards; clasps gone. (small marginal wormhole in the Nazianzenus throughout; more small worming in the last 150 pages; small stamp on title. front hinge splitting, but holding) ¶ Provenance: ms.entry of the Carmel in Speyer, with annotation: Ex testamento E.D. Matthiae Laici , ..., Anno 1606." ¶ Hoffmann II/187 for Nyssenus, and Hoffmann II/170 for Nazianzenus at lenght: "Die Tragödie 'Christus patiens' übersetzte Cl. Roillet in lateinische Verse; die übrigen Geichte, theils metrisch, theils in Prosa Billius. (Follows long rendering of Billius' criticism of the Aldus translation). Die Briefe übersetzte Billius nach der Baseler Ausgabe, verbesserte jedoch vieles." ¶ Jacques de Billy (1535-1581) translated a.o. Damascenus, Chrysostomus and Isidorus of Pelusa; Claude Roillet (d.1576) wrote a number of latin plays; in 1560 he was elected rector of the Sorbonne.