Clement I (1st century AD), Pope.

Estimate

400 - 500 GBP

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Description

ProV KorinqiouV epistolh prwth. Ad Corinthios epistola prior [edited by Patrick Young]. Oxford: John Lichfield, 1633

4to (203 x 153mm.), [24], 76, [48]pp., red and black printing, illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, binding: eighteenth-century calf, paper flaw on M2 affecting top line of text

Provenance

presentation copy from the editor, inscribed on the flyleaf "Ex dono eruditiss. D. Pa. Junius... hunc librum possidet F. Junius 1642"; this does not seem to be in the hand of Franciscus Junius, but he was living in England at this date.

Literature

STC 5398; Madan 1633/10; Barker 32

Catalogue Note

first edition. The volume is famous for its use of red printing to indicate those words in the Greek text which have been supplied. The text is found on some leaves at the end of the Codex Alexandrinus, presented in 1628 to Charles I and in the Royal Library, of which Patrick Young was librarian. The book is printed in the Savile types, lent to Lichfield by the University. As Harry Carter wrote (p. 36), "This book... was the learned press in being...".