Cyprianus, Opera, Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1563, later vellum

Cyprianus, Caecilius, Saint. Divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginiensis, et gloriosissimi martyris, Opera, ad veritatemvetustissimorum exemplarium summa fide emendata, addito etiam quinto epistolarum libro, antea nunquam edito. Aliaeidem Cypriano adscripta. Cum indice rerum ac verborum memorabilium maxima diligentia collecto. Rome: Paolo Manuzio, 1563

The text was edited by Latino Latini, though his name does not appear in the book. For another volume of works by Church Fathers printed by Paolo Manuzio in Rome, see lot 117.

Folio (329 x 221 mm). Roman type, 49 lines plus headline. collation: a⁴ b⁶ c⁴ A-Z⁶ AA-MM⁶ NN-TT⁴: 252 leaves (last leaf blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials. (Small tear in X2, occasional light foxing.)

binding: Seventeenth-century Italian vellum (337 x 227 mm), red morocco lettering-piece on spine. (Head of spine slightly defective.)

provenance: Bonaventura [Barberini] da Ferrara (1674-1743), for the use of the Capuchins of Palestrina, inscription on title-page dated 1721. acquisition: Purchased from Hesketh & Ward, London, 2000. references: UCLA 693; Edit16 13896; Renouard 188/3