EPIPHANIUS of Constantia, Saint (ca. 315-403). Ad physiologum. Eisudem in die festo Palmarum sermo. In Greek and Latin. Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1588.
EPIPHANIUS of Constantia, Saint (ca. 315-403). Ad physiologum. Eisudem in die festo Palmarum sermo. In Greek and Latin. Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1588.

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EPIPHANIUS of Constantia, Saint (ca. 315-403). Ad physiologum. Eisudem in die festo Palmarum sermo. In Greek and Latin. Antwerp: Christoph Plantin, 1588.

Small 8o (167 x 106 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, one full-page portrait and 25 etched half-page illustrations after Pieter van der Borcht within typographical borders (some minor darkening). 17th-century vellum. Provenance: acquired from Emil Offenbacher, 1962.

Second edition. The first was published in Rome a year earlier. "Though not an emblem-book proper Epiphanius Ad Physiologum had a great influence on emblem-literature, and is rightly recorded among emblem-books in all catalgoues" (Praz). Adams E-248; BM STC Dutch, p. 69; Landwehr, Low Countries 162; Nissen ZBI 1301; Praz, p. 328.