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Sancti C�cilii CYPRIANI OPERA recognita et illustrata per Joannem Oxoniensem Episcopum ; accedunt Annales Cyprianici sive Tredecim Annorum ; quibus S. Cyprianus inter Christianos versatus est brevis historia Chronologice delineata per Joannem Cestriensem

1690réf. 11927Brem�: Hermanni Braueri 1690. Hardcover. Good. Sometime bound in half brown buckram with marbled boards leather spine label "CYPRIANI OPERA 1790." The true date of this volume is 1690. Small paper label at base of spine "Trinity College Library" stamped beneath it. 15 x 10 1/4 inches joints very good tight. College library bookplate at front card pocket at back. Title page printed in red & black is somewhat edge-tattered with old repair on verso. The text is complete. There are 40 leaves of preliminaries including "Index operum omnium" "Index S. Scripturarum toto opere citatarum" and "Index alphabeticus" plus one leaf half-title page. Then pp. 1-72 skips p. nos. 15-16 without loss of text; 1-244; 1-240 p. 216 misnumbered as 198; 1-40; 1-110 skips page nos. 57-58 with no loss of text; 52 misnumbered as 42 72 as 27; 1-72; 4 1-118; 1-37. Counted and complete. Text is in good condition with some marginal stains foxing pinhole worming in the margins; one leaf with short tear in the margin. This edition first published in 1682 at Oxford; the text is in Latin with some Greek. The works of Saint Caecilius Cyprianus c. 210-258 Bishop of Carthage in which city he was born and died. "A controversial figure during his lifetime his strong pastoral skils firm conduct during the Novatianist controversy and outbreak of the Plague of Cyprian named for his description of it and eventual martyrdom at Carthage established his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church. His skilful Latin rhetoric led to his being the pre-eminent Latin writer of Western Christianity until Jerome and Augustine." - Henry Palmer Chapman Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. St. Cyprian was executed during the Valerian persecutions."CYPRIAN Thascius Caecilius: A principal father of the Christian Church. Born at Carthage in Africa about 200. Embraced Christianity 246. Chosen Bishop of Carthage 248. During the persecution by Decius he fled for which he was much blamed but he justified himself on solid principles. Under Valerian he was banished in 257 and the following year he was seized and beheaded at Carthage." - Darling Cyclopaedia Bibliographica. Hermanni Braueri hardcover

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