Tou En Hagiois Patros He¯mo¯n Basileiou, Archiepiscopou Kaisareias Kappadokias, Ta Heuriskomena Panta = Sancti Patris Nostri Basilii, Caesareae Cappadociae Archiepiscopi, Opera Omnia Quae Exstant. 3 Volumes Vel Quae Ejus Nomine Circumferuntur, Ad MSS. Codices Gallicanos, Vaticanos, Florentinos & Anglicos...

Paris: Joannis Baptistae Coignard. Good with no dust jacket. 1721-1730. Leather. Magnificent 3 volume folio set of the complete works of Saint Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea and one of the Doctors of the Church. 17" (43 cm) in full leather, 6 raised bands with gilt in the compartments. Title in red and black, engraved frontis and engraved title vignette, head and tail pieces and initials. Greek and Latin in parallel columns, each volume has its own index, in Latin. Vol. 3 edited by P. Maran. Lxxv, [5], 745, [47] & lxxxviii, [4], 782, [27] & cciv, 660, [38] pp. In contemporary full leather with blind ruling, corners rubbed, joints cracking but cords strong, some scuffing and skinning. Interior marbled end papers, small owner bookplate and small institutional library stamps from the Bibliotheque du Grand Seminaire de Chartres, very occasional foxing and in the index in Vol. 3 there are a couple of small ink stains, one of which has made a small hole in the paper just affecting the text, otherwise paper is clean and unmarked. V. 1. Homiliae in hexaemeron novem. Homiliae in quosdam psalmos. Libri adversus Eunomium V. Eustathii in Hexaemeron Basilii Magni latina metaphrasis --V. 2. Homiliae de diversis. Ascetica. Homiliae s. Basilii quas transtulit Ruffinus e graeco in latinum --V. 3. Vita S. Basilii Magni. Liber de Spiritu Sancto. Epistolae. Appendix: Sermones viginti quatuor de moribus per Symeonem Magistrum & Logothetam selecti ex omnibus sancti Basilii operibus. Liber de virginitate. Notae selectae. Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-379). He was an influential theologian who supported the Nicene Creed and opposed the heresies of the early Christian church. He, along with his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus were known as the Cappadocian Fathers. The three of them believed that Christianity was an almost scientific and distinctive movement with the healing of the soul of man and his union with God at its center. A beautiful large set of the complete works of one of the most important and beloved of Christian fathers, with a nice monastic library provenance. Heavy and oversized for international shipping. Please inquire. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .