Lactantius Firmianus: [Chrysostom, John: ] [Valla, Lorenzo: ] [Philippus: ] [Tertullian: ] (Parrasio, Aulo Giano, Ed. : )

[...] Opera [...] Joan. Chry. De Eucha. Quandam Expositionem, Et in Eadem Materiam Lau. Vall. Sermonem [...] Phi. Adhortationem Ad Theodo. Et Adversus Gentes. Tertul. Apologetico

      ) [...] Venetiis [Venice], mira arte et diligentia Ioannis de Tridino, 1509. First edition thus. Folio, 194 leaves ([i] CLIII ?CLX' ?CLXIIII' CLV-CLIX XXII [xi]). With index bound at end. Second leaf with running title and large woodcut ornamental initial in red. Title-page with words in two sizes of type-face and woodcut vignette of John the Baptist. Title-page rehinged. Bound in contemporary limp vellum, some wear and tear, large part of the spine renewed. Cased in a box of yellow cloth, green morocco gilt label. Post-incunable edition of a collection mostly of early Christian writings, containing the first edition of Lactantius (c.240-c.320) by the literary scholar Aulo Giano Parrasio (1490-1534). Parrasio's version was used for the Aldine edition of Lactantius (1515), and was reprinted a number of times subsequently in the sixteenth century. CNCE 34788. Graesse IV 66. Not in Adams or Schweiger. For collation, see the online description of the British Library copy (480.f.18).