Athanasius - Saint , Basil Saint Athanasius Patriarch of Alexandria, 295-373. Theophylactus de Achrida,; 1055-1126. Richardus de Sancto Victore,; 1110-1173. Ambrogio Traversari 1386-1439. Cristoforo Persona; 1416-1485. Angelo Poliziano; 1454-1494. Nicolas Béraud; 1473-1550. Desiderius Erasmus; 1496-153 With Basilius Caesariensis. 330–379 Jacques Lefèvre D'Etaples. c. 1450–1536.

Athanasii Episcopi Alexandrini Sanctissima, Eloqventissimaqve Opera ¶ Commentarij in epistolas Pauli ¶Contra Gentiles Liber vnus ¶De incarnatio[n]e Verbi ... ¶Disputatio contra Arrium. ¶In vim Psalmorum opusculum. ¶Exhortatio ad Monachos. ¶De passione Imaginis domini nostri Libellus. ¶Epistolæ nonnullæ Romanorum Pontificum ad Athanasium, et Atanasij ad eosdem. ¶Que̜ omnia olimia[m] latina facta Christophoro Porsena, Ambrosio Monacho, Angelo Politiano interpretibus, vna cum doctissima Erasmi Roterodani [sic] ad pium lectorem paraclesi. Bound with Basilii Magni Caesariensium in Cappadocia Antistitis sanctissimi opera plane diuina, variis e locis sedulo collecta: & accuratio[n]e ac impe[n]sis Iodici Badii Ascensii recognita & coimpressa, quorum index proxima pandetur charta.

Paris: Joanne Paruo [i.e., Jean Petit] with Venundantur eidem Ascensio [i.e., Badius Ascensius, 1519 & 1520. Bound in Alum-tawed pigskin, elaborately tooled in blind over wooden boards with metal and leather clasps; one clasp perished. Binding with one corner tip broken off; small hole in leather on rear board; dust-soiled. Inside, some early marginalia and underlining in red; narrow arc of old, light water staining to fore-edges of one part. Pages generally very clean. This is a pleasing copy of two substantial books edited and assembled by very notable scholars_ _contemporary to the publications of the works. Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard, Bibliographie des impres (Paris, I908)s II, I46 and BL STC France (16th cent.); Ind Aur III, 311; Wierda, 2006,; p. 210, nr. 40 p. 42; Moreau 1511-1520: 2246; Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du 16. sie_̀cle ... Bade-438/. Two Folios bound together; leaf size: 32 x 22 cm. Signatures: ad. I) a-z8,&8,A-H8,I6,K8, aaa-ggg6,hhh4,iii6(iii6 is blank & present) ad. II)A¹0, a-x⁸, y⁶, z⁴ Both are first editions of quite influential books. Item #909

St. Athanasius's text was translated into Latin by three noted Renaissance scholars, and edited by Nicholas Beraldus, and has the added prestige of apparatus by Erasmus. The title-page is printed within a four-piece woodcut border, with the title in red and black, and the page bears the famous Petit printer's device. The St. Basil is from Badius Ascensius's press and he acted as the editor, the translators having been Johannes Argyropoulos, Georgius Trapezuntius, and others(see above and below ). The title-page uses the same four-part woodcut title-page border as found on the St. Athanasius, bound in at the front, which makes much sense given the familial relationship between Ascensius and Petit.
Moreau II Nr. 2242m; P. Renouard, Bibliographie des impres (Paris, I908)s II, I46

Athanasius was the greatest champion of Catholic belief of Incarnation that the Church has ever known and in his lifetime earned the characteristic title of "Father of Orthodoxy", by which he has been distinguished ever since. “Athanasius the Apostolic, was the 20th bishop of Alexandria (as Athanasius I). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – _2 May 373), of which over encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors. Athanasius was a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Coptic Christian (Egyptian) leader of the fourth century. Athanasius' earliest work, Against the Heathen – _On the Incarnation (written before 319), bears traces of Origenist Alexandrian thought (such as repeatedly quoting Plato and using a definition from Aristotle's Organon) but in an orthodox way. Athanasius was also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools, and with the developments of Neo-Platonism. Ultimately, Athanasius would modify the philosophical thought of the School of Alexandria away from the Origenist principles such as the "entirely allegorical interpretation of the text". Still, in later works, Athanasius quotes Homer more than once (Hist. Ar. 68, Orat. iv. 29). Athanasius was not a speculative theologian. As he stated in his First Letters to Serapion, he held on to "the tradition, teaching, and faith proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers." He held that not only was the Son of God consubstantial with the Father, but so was the Holy Spirit, which had a great deal of influence in the development of later doctrines regarding the Trinity.

Athanasius' "Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea" (De Decretis), is an important historical as well as theological account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter from 367 is the first known listing of all those books now accepted as the New Testament.
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Basil the Great is sapientissimus, potentissimus, sanctissimus, piissimus.
This volume includes the following works: the Hexameron, translated by Argyro- pulos for Sixtus IV; Adversus Eunomium, translated by George of Trebizond at the re- quest of Cardinal Bessarion and sent by him to Eugenius IV; Gregory Nazianzen's funeral oration on Basil the Great in the translation of Raphael Volaterranus; a large selection of Basil's sermons and several letters, also translated by Volaterranus; and, finally, the De institutis monarchorum, RuEinus' trans]ation, adaptation, and fusion of Basil's two monastic rules, the Regulaefusius tractatae and Regulae brevius tractatae. Texts in Migne, P.G. XXIX, XXX, XXXI and F. Boulenger, Gre'goire de NazEanze. Dis- coursfunebres en l'honneur de sonfrere Ce'saire et de Basile de Cesarete (Paris, I908), pp. S8-23I. Argyropulos' Hexameron was sent to Badius from Rome by Lefevre (fol. Ir and Badius' preface: 'Nuper autem divi Basilii vere magni monumenta aeterna cedro dignissima ab urbe Roma ad nos usque perlata, hinc ad negocia sua profecturus, prelo nostro commisit'). It and the translations of Volaterranus had been printed in Rome by Mazochius in September and December ISIS (Panzer, vm, 255, no. 92 and 256 no. 9S); inJune ISo8 Matthias Schurer had printed Basilfi Oratio de invidia, Nic. Perotfo interprete in Strasbourg (Panzer, VI, 42, no. I3I); the letters on reading the pagan classics and on the solitary life were well known; but Badius' is the first printing of so important a collection of Basil's works.

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