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Photiou Patriarchou Konstantinou-poleos Epistolai = Photii Sanctissimi Patriarch? Constantinopolitani Epistol
by Photius I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Contemporary Cambridge style full brown calf lacking spine label. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Robert Daniel, 1651. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary Cambridge style full brown calf lacking spine label. Very good. 393 pages, plus (5 leaves: Index Rerum & Verborum & Index Scripturarum). 32 x 21 cm. Translated and edited by Richard Montague. Parallel text in Latin and Greek. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Photios the Great, viewed as the most important intellectual of his time - "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance," and a central figure in both the conversion of the Slavs to Christianity. Considered by some scholars as only one of many Byzantine scholars of Armenian descent. Text generally clean and fresh. Armorial bookplate, hinges cracked but firm, woodcut device on title, leaf Ddd browned, minor marginal worming not affecting text, errata. Lacks first blank free endpaper. BRUNET Vol. IV, p.623. WING P2136.
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- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21700
- Title
- Photiou Patriarchou Konstantinou-poleos Epistolai = Photii Sanctissimi Patriarch? Constantinopolitani Epistol
- Author
- Photius I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary Cambridge style full brown calf lacking spine label. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Robert Daniel
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1651
- Keywords
- Religion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Printing; Philosophy;
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ardsley, New York
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- Spine Label
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