985J: (Compiled by Paulus Diaconus  ca. 720-797)Augustinus, Aurelius,;Beda Venerabilis; Hieronymus; Ambrosius; Origenes; Ioannes Chrysostomus; Gregorius I [pope].

Homilie, hoc est Conciones populares sanctissimorum Ecclesie doctorum Hieronymi, Ambrosii, Augustini, Gregorii, Origenis, Joannis Chrysostomi, Bedae presbyteri, Maximi episcopi et aliorum. 

Basilee : Per Ioannem Frobenium excuse:1516                 Price $9,500

Folio: 32 x 22?cm.  Signatures: a-z6 aa-cc6 dd-ee8 A-N6.( Part II lacks leaves J3 and J4 as well as the final leaf N6)  This copy has been professionally restored, resewn, and reback, preserving original beach boards with 2 brass clasps. The 1516 reprint is distinguished from Froben’s first edition of 1513 by its title-page bearing the printer’s newly adopted caduceus device with the motto Prudens simplicitas, amorque recti, replacing the earlier basilisk mark. This copy is annotated throughout! (more about that soon)

Compiled by Paul the Deacon  at the request of Charlemagne, the Homiliary was one of the foundational achievements of the Carolingian renewal of learning and religious life. By assembling authoritative sermons of the Latin and Greek Fathers according to the liturgical year, it established a common body of patristic exegesis for preaching throughout the Frankish Empire. The Homiliarum  became one of the principal instruments by which the Carolingian program of ecclesiastical education, liturgical uniformity, and biblical interpretation was transmitted to succeeding generations. For nearly seven centuries it remained a standard resource for monasteries, cathedral chapters, universities, and parish clergy throughout Western Europe.

Johann Froben first printed an edition of Paul the Deacon’s Homiliary in Basel in 1513, reprinting it in 1516. That a substantial folio like this warranted a reprint within only three years demonstrates the continuing demand for, and authority of, this Carolingian compilation among the humanists of the early sixteenth century. Produced in the circle of Erasmus and issued only a year before Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, the volume occupies a remarkable historical moment. It preserves the common patristic inheritance of Western Christendom at the culmination of more than seven centuries of continuous transmission, just before that shared tradition entered the diverse confessional currents of the Reformation.

Adams,; H816;[part 2] Isaac 14157;VD16 P 1053 ; Panzer, Ann. Lat. 198, 167; VD16; P 1053;

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