Le Moine, Etienne (1624-1689), editor.

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

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Description

Varia sacra ceu sylloge variorum opusculorum graecorum ad rem ecclesiasticam spectantia, [etc.]. Leiden: D. van Gaesbeeck, 1685

2 volumes, 4to (195 x 150mm.), [136], 535pp.; [4 (first leaf blank)], 1122, [2 (errata)] pp., Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Roman letter, binding: contemporary calf, blind-stamped fillet on covers

Provenance

Thomas Smith of Magdalen College, Oxford (1638-1710), with considerable marks of reading in volume II. Smith was passionately interested in oriental studies and the affairs of the Greek church, and he spent three years at Constantinople. The author of a large number of important books, including one on the Greek church, he was also the biographer of (amongst others) John Greaves.

Catalogue Note

An important compilation bringing together ecclesiastical Greek texts by Polycarp, Barnabas, Hippolytus, Basil, Euthymius Zigabenus, Nilus, Mauel, Bartholomew of Edessa (including Confutatio Huhammad), Antonius Eparchus, and others, preceded by lengthy prolegomena, and with volume II consisting of Le Moyne's commentaries.