EPIPHANIUS Saint, Bishop of Constantia

£8,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

The beautifully printed first edition of the Lives and deaths of the Prophets by Epiphanus Bishop of Cyprus, with the first editions of writings by two other Greek Fathers, Gregorius of Nazianzus and Sophronius, beautifully bound for Jacques Auguste de Thou. The work was edited by with a Latin translation by Alban Thorer. (1489 - 1550), physician, philologist, rector of the University of Basel, and translator and publisher of various ancient medical works. He translated the work of his contemporary Andreas Vesalius De humani corporis fabrica into German. Thorer followed the Reformation in 1529 and taught with the lecturers Johannes Oekolampad, Bonifacius Amerbach and Oswald Bär at the University of Basel. The university closed in 1529-1532. He left Basel and continued his studies in France, at Montpellier, where Nostradamus was a fellow student. Whilst in Montpellier Thorer discovered, on the island monastery of the Maguelone, near Montpellier, an Apicius manuscript, which he later published in 1541 at Basel. the real object of the editor and translator Albanos Torinus (thorer), a medical doctor, was to assemble all the biblical Lives and make them available in a bilingual edition not so much to act as an exemplar, but to encourage young people to learn Greek. Irena Backus Life Writing in Reformation Europe. The work also contains Jerome s De viris illustribus with the Greek translation of Sophronius and Erasmus notes. This copy was bound for the French statesman and histori

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