![GREGORY THE GREAT (Saint, Bishop of Nyssa, 329-389, attributed to) -- [NEMESIUS, Bishop of Emesa)]. Libri octo. De homine. De anima. De elementis. De viribus animae. De voluntario et involuntario. De fato. De libero arbitrio. De providentia. Edited by Beatus Rhenanus. Strassburg: Matthias Schürer, May 1512. With final errata leaf. Greek and roman types. Woodcut title border enclosing letterpress title printed in red. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few leaves with marginal worming or flaws, title trimmed at fore-edge and with short tears reinforced on verso, F5v-F6r marked.) Graesse III, p.148 (listed under 'les plus rares et les plus remarquables' translations) Panzer VI, p.55, 249.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CKS/2003_CKS_06704_0064_000(054430).jpg?w=1)
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GREGORY THE GREAT (Saint, Bishop of Nyssa, 329-389, attributed to) -- [NEMESIUS, Bishop of Emesa)]. Libri octo. De homine. De anima. De elementis. De viribus animae. De voluntario et involuntario. De fato. De libero arbitrio. De providentia. Edited by Beatus Rhenanus. Strassburg: Matthias Schürer, May 1512. With final errata leaf. Greek and roman types. Woodcut title border enclosing letterpress title printed in red. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few leaves with marginal worming or flaws, title trimmed at fore-edge and with short tears reinforced on verso, F5v-F6r marked.) Graesse III, p.148 (listed under 'les plus rares et les plus remarquables' translations) Panzer VI, p.55, 249.
[Bound with the following 3 works:]
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (?1469-1533). Liber de providentia dei contra philosophastros. Novi di Modena: Benedictus Dulcibellus Mangius, 5 November 1508. Woodcut printer's device on G4r, woodcut initials. Adams P-1151; Brunet IV, 637 ('[un] livre devenu fort rare'); Panzer VII, p.486, Novi 1; Proctor 14,032.
PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA (c.500-c.562). De bello persico. -- De bello vandalico. Translated by Raffaele da Volterra and edited by Andrea Muzio. Rome: Eucario Silber, 7 March 1509. Woodcut initials. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few marginal tears.) Brunet IV, 897; Panzer VIII, p.248, 28; Proctor 12,013.
HOMER. Odissea, in Latin. Translated by Raffaele da Volterra. Rome: Jacobus Mazochius, 12 September 1510. Title with woodcut border. Woodcut printer's device on colophon. Retaining final blank Q10. (Light spotting, wormhole in Q8-10.) Adams H-795; Panzer VIII, p.249, 35; Proctor 12,102.
4 works bound in one volume, 2° (290 x 195mm). Contemporary German calf-backed bevelled wooden boards, leather tooled with rosettes and trellis tools, titled in an early hand on upper board and fore-edges (rebacked preserving original half-leather sides, minor cracks at spine, repaired cracks on boards, without 2 fore-edge clasps). Provenance: extensive early marginal annotations in Greek and Latin and underlinings, diagrams captioned in Greek and Latin on Q10 of last work and lower pastedown -- Vienna, Barnabite College of St. Michael (early inscription in Italian on A2r of the first work).
[Bound with the following 3 works:]
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (?1469-1533). Liber de providentia dei contra philosophastros. Novi di Modena: Benedictus Dulcibellus Mangius, 5 November 1508. Woodcut printer's device on G4r, woodcut initials. Adams P-1151; Brunet IV, 637 ('[un] livre devenu fort rare'); Panzer VII, p.486, Novi 1; Proctor 14,032.
PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA (c.500-c.562). De bello persico. -- De bello vandalico. Translated by Raffaele da Volterra and edited by Andrea Muzio. Rome: Eucario Silber, 7 March 1509. Woodcut initials. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few marginal tears.) Brunet IV, 897; Panzer VIII, p.248, 28; Proctor 12,013.
HOMER. Odissea, in Latin. Translated by Raffaele da Volterra. Rome: Jacobus Mazochius, 12 September 1510. Title with woodcut border. Woodcut printer's device on colophon. Retaining final blank Q10. (Light spotting, wormhole in Q8-10.) Adams H-795; Panzer VIII, p.249, 35; Proctor 12,102.
4 works bound in one volume, 2° (290 x 195mm). Contemporary German calf-backed bevelled wooden boards, leather tooled with rosettes and trellis tools, titled in an early hand on upper board and fore-edges (rebacked preserving original half-leather sides, minor cracks at spine, repaired cracks on boards, without 2 fore-edge clasps). Provenance: extensive early marginal annotations in Greek and Latin and underlinings, diagrams captioned in Greek and Latin on Q10 of last work and lower pastedown -- Vienna, Barnabite College of St. Michael (early inscription in Italian on A2r of the first work).
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