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LOT 236:
PHILO JUDAEUS.
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Libri Antiguitatum * Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin * De Essaeis * De Nominibus Hebraicis * De Mundo.
Five works in one.
FIRST LATIN EDITION. Printers’ device on title and repeated on verso of final unnumbered leaf (cf. Yaari, Printers’ Marks no. 11). Initial letters within historiated woodcut vignettes by Hans Holbein. pp. (8), 142. Light wear. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, scuffed. Folio. Adams P-1031.
Basle: Adam Petri, 1527.
Group of five works by the Jewish philosopher of antiquity, Philo of Alexandria. The most notable text is Queaestionum et solutionum in Genesin - Questions and Answers on Genesis, a work in the form of a Hellenistic commentary, wherein each paragraph is headed by an exegetic question, answered by a short literal and lengthy allegorical explanation. The other works are digests of Philo’s writings.
BOUND WITH: Sedulius Scotus. In Omnes Epistolas Pauli Collectaneum.
First Edition. Basle, H. Petri, 1527.
