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ALEXANDRINUS, Clemens

Omnia quae quidem extant opera, nunc primum è tenebris eruta Latinitateque donata, Gentiono Herueto Aurelio interprete

Florentiae
Lorenzo Torrentino
1551

€200 - €300

Folio (34,4 x 22 cm), [48], 114, [4], 227, [51] pp, nice woodcut allegorical title-page, printersmarks and initials, large margins, some water and brown stains at last 10 pages, modern half vellum binding

First Latin edition, it was published in Greek in 1550. Contents: Oratio adhortatoria ad Graecos (Hortatory Discourse to the Greeks), Paedagogus, Stromatum libri octo ... (Miscellanies) Clement of Alexandria (died circa 215 AD) was a Greek theologian, he was a convert. He is venerated as a saint in Coptic Christianity. He knew about Siddhartha Buddha, whose existence had been told to him by the Alexandrian merchants who traded with India. Ref. EDIT 16 CNCE 12689 ; Adams C-2105

Humanism