LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius.
[Opera:] Divinaru[m] institutionu[m] lib. VII. De ira dei liber I. De opificio dei liber I. Epitome in libros suos, liber acephalos. Carmen de Phoenice, Resurrectione dominica, Passione Domini. Omnia ex castigatione Honorati Fasitelii Veneti pristinae integritati restituta.
Lyons, Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1561.
16mo in 8s, pp. 787, [44], [1 (blank)]; title within a woodcut border; dampstain to lower half throughout, withal a good copy in early eighteenth-century speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments; ownership inscriptions to title of John Minet and H. Peach (dated 1782), manuscript extract from an unidentified ‘Letter to a student abroad’ on Lactantius to front endpaper, ownership stamp in red ‘St George’; armorial bookplate of Edward Francis Witts (1813–1886), of Upper Slaughter.
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[Opera:] Divinaru[m] institutionu[m] lib. VII. De ira dei liber I. De opificio dei liber I. Epitome in libros suos, liber acephalos. Carmen de Phoenice, Resurrectione dominica, Passione Domini. Omnia ex castigatione Honorati Fasitelii Veneti pristinae integritati restituta.
Uncommon edition of the works of Lactantius, the ‘Christian Cicero’, edited by the humanist Benedictine Onorato Fascitelli (1502–1564), comprising his Divine Institutes, On the Wrath of God, On the Works of God, the poem The Phoenix etc. ‘The Carmen de resurrectione dominica’ is by Venantius Fortunatus; the ‘Carmen de passione domini’ was also wrongly ascribed to Lactantius. The editio princeps was printed at Subiaco in 1465; the first Fascitelli edition was an Aldine of 1535.
Library Hub shows V&A only, OCLC adds no copies outside mainland Europe, but there is a copy at Harvard.
Gültlingen IX, p. 219: 508; USTC 153108; not in Adams.
