Ionae Avrelianensis Ecclesiae Episcopi Libri II. De Cvltv Imaginvm: Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus haeresin Claudii Praesulis Taurinensis, ante annos quidem D.C.C. conscripti, numc vero primum ab innumeris quibus scatebant mendis repurgati.

Aurelian, Jonah. (d. 843 or 844) Ionae Avrelianensis Ecclesiae Episcopi Libri II. De Cvltv Imaginvm: Ad Carolum Caluum Aduersus haeresin Claudii Praesulis Taurinensis, ante annos quidem D.C.C. conscripti, numc vero primum ab innumeris quibus scatebant mendis repurgati. Antwerp: Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1565

Octavo, 2.7 x 4.25 in. Second edition, A-N8. This book is in modern binding made from blind-stamped pigskin of a sixteenth century book over modern boards. Despite the strangeness of this binding it is not displeasing. The leaves are edged in gilt. The pages are in excellent condition. A rare work and very difficult to find.

Jonah Aurelian:

This work "on the veneration of images was written at the request of Louis the Pious in refutation of the Iconoclastic views of Claudius, Bishop of Turin. Jonas wrote it without having read the writings of Claudius which he knew only through an extract sent to him by Louis the Pious. He maintains that images are justified for the purposes of commemoration, instruction, and ornament, but does not seem to admit the lawfulness of their veneration. The work first appeared in Cologne in 1554 from the original manuscript pages."

Jonas of Orleans was bishop and ecclesiastical writer who succeeded Theodulf to the see of Orleans. " He played an important role in the ecclesiastical affairs of France. He was present in 825 at the so-called Council of Paris, at which the question of the veneration of images was again discussed, and Jonas was one of the messangers sent by the emperor to submit to Pope Eugene II excerpts from the acts of the meeting. He also attended the Council of Paris in 829, which treated of reforms to be introduced in Church and State, and drew up the report of the proceedings of the Synod of Hionville (835) concerning the deposition of Ebbo of Reims." (CE), VOES NO. 1473, Belg. Typ. II, No. 6097, Adams J 314