John Chrysostom commentaries on Pauline Epistles ~Verona 1529 ~ Hagiou Ioannou tou Chrysostomou Eis pasas tas Paulou tou Apostolou Epistolas

Title: Tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Chrysostomou Eis pasas tas Paulou tou Apostolou Epistolas akriestate, kai chryse alethos, kai theia hermeneia

Author: John Chrysostom, Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople

Description: Part Two (out of four). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over boards, covers with multiple decorative roll frames with a central panel lozenge. Raised bands and hand-inked title on spine. Greek type, woodcut head-pieces and initials in red. Frequent margin notations in Latin and light underlining throughout. Minor foxing around page edges, else very good. Printed by Stefano Nicolini da Sabio & Brothers, Verona, quarto kalendas Iulias [28 June], 1529. Folio (36 x 26 cm). Signatures: aa-oo(^10), Aa-Bb(^8) (Bb8 blank). 255 numbered leaves: [1], 2-255.

A volume from the first printed edition of Chrysostom's commentaries on the Pauline epistles, here containing commentaries on Thessalonians (ff. 1-47) and Colossians (ff. 48-86), and Corinthians (ff. 87-255). The work was edited by Bernardino Donati and was the first of several books commissioned by Giovanni Matteo Ghiberti (1495-1543), Bishop of Verona and secretary to Pope Clement VII.

Partially obscured provenance on ffep: ''aus Vaters Bibliothek (Aluys ___[?] 1845-1932)'' -- presumably the Swiss theologian and author, Aloys Berthoud (1845-1932), who taught dogmatics at the Evangelical School of Geneva and church history at the University of Geneva (there is a slip of paper laid in noting M. Berthoud, pastor, of Grandson, Switzerland). In addition, there is an inscription on the ffep in an earlier hand referring to Ebert's Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon, s. 325, no. 4194.


Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Typis aereis excusum per Stephanum, & fratres a Sabio [Stefano Nicolini da Sabio & Brothers]
Place: Verona
Year: 1529

Keywords: Aloys Berthoud,