Binding chrysostom saint (1 Ergebnisse)

Title with printer's device; neatly repaired marginal tear to title, uniformly toned with the odd blemish but good, pp. 496, 8vo, attractive seventeenth-century Oxford blind stamped binding of full smooth calf, ruled and embossed with a central arabesque centrepiece and the initials (faintly) T.G., the upper board also with date 1632, stump remnants of ties, printer's waste (in black and red) at pastedowns, yellow edges (desaturated); sympathetically rebacked with new label, small patch of old worm damage on lower board; legible ms. errata, contemporary to the binding, to the front pastedown, good. Second edition of Stelsius' edition of Chrysostom's commentary on Matthew (first 1548) in a sensitively restored Oxford binding of the early seventeenth century. John Chrysostom (347-407), - the epithet an Anglicisation of Chrystotomos or, golden mouthed - Archbishop of Constantinople, is exceeded only by Augustine of Hippo in the quantity of his surviving writings. Here, his commentary on Matthew's gospel in attractive Dutch edition. The binding features one of the 'distinctive family of centrepieces (Ker called it the 'pincers' design) [which] is strongly associated with Oxford' (Pearson, p. 55). It closely resembles Pearson's 'Centrepiece i' the cross-hatching having worn away by the time this binding was produced (ibid. pp. 75-6). David Pearson, Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640 (Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2000). (Not in Adams; BCNI 2551). …