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CONTENTS
Pietro Crisologo wrote a total of one hundred and seventy-six homilies; some of them are interpolations, others are included in other collections under different names. Most of them are short, concise commentaries on biblical texts. Chrysologus explained in a very effective way the mystery of the Incarnation, the heresies of Arius and Eutyches, the Apostolic Creed. He also dedicated a series of homilies to the Virgin Mary and to Saint John the Baptist. This work was dedicated to Giorgio Gradonico.
CONDITION REPORT
In 8th, pp. (16), 552 numbered only on recto. Latin text. Coeval semi-rigid full parchment binding. Burnished cuts. Handwritten title on spine and front cover. Binding partially detached. Ex libris handwritten and then canceled on the title page. Copy with good margins. Notes by the author and handwritten in the margins. Diffuse light foxing. Sepia stain in the last two lines of text on leaves 112 and 113, the fruition of the text is safeguarded. Sheets 2 and 3 missing from the upper right margin. Publishing mark engraved on the title page, depicting a woman (Humility) crushing the lion (Pride) with one foot, motto: "Thus all things yield to humility."
FULL TITLE & AUTHORS
Aurei Sermones seu Homiliae, D. Petri Chrysologi Archiepiscopi Ravennatis. Nunc recenter emendati & politioribus typis commissi, Iuncta noviter capitum serie & materiarum in hoc opusculo contentarum.
Venice, Giovanni Battista Ugolino, 1588
Peter Chrysologus. 67092349
