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RUFINUS, Tyrannius (c.345-411). Expositio in symbolum apostolorum. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, c.1472].
First edition of Rufinus’s exposition on the Creed, an influential commentary on the state of the Church in the 5th century. Tyrannius Rufinus was a monk and an important translator of Greek texts into Latin, and is also remembered for his friendship and later his adversarial relationship with Jerome. Ulrich Zel is recognised as the first printer in Cologne, publishing his first work there in 1466. A second and final incunable edition of the Expositio was printed in 1478 by Theodoricus Rood at Oxford. HC *8578; GW M08074; BMC I 191; Bod-inc R-147; BSB-Ink R-285; ISTC ir00351000; Goff R-351.
Chancery quarto (214 x 145mm). 29 leaves (of 30, lacking the blank), 4-line illuminated opening initial in purple and blue on gold ground with floral and foliate extensions in the margin, rubricated in red and yellow throughout, some early foliation (some faint unobtrusive waterstains in upper margin). Modern leather binding. Provenance: numerous contemporary marginal annotations.
First edition of Rufinus’s exposition on the Creed, an influential commentary on the state of the Church in the 5th century. Tyrannius Rufinus was a monk and an important translator of Greek texts into Latin, and is also remembered for his friendship and later his adversarial relationship with Jerome. Ulrich Zel is recognised as the first printer in Cologne, publishing his first work there in 1466. A second and final incunable edition of the Expositio was printed in 1478 by Theodoricus Rood at Oxford. HC *8578; GW M08074; BMC I 191; Bod-inc R-147; BSB-Ink R-285; ISTC ir00351000; Goff R-351.
Chancery quarto (214 x 145mm). 29 leaves (of 30, lacking the blank), 4-line illuminated opening initial in purple and blue on gold ground with floral and foliate extensions in the margin, rubricated in red and yellow throughout, some early foliation (some faint unobtrusive waterstains in upper margin). Modern leather binding. Provenance: numerous contemporary marginal annotations.
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