MAXIMA BIBLIOTHECA VETERUM PATRUM ET ANTIQUORUM SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM
Lugdini: Apud Anissonios, 1677. Folio, [4], 176, 179-228, 227-543, [1] pages; Book 4 only. Bound in full brown leather with label and gilt ornamentation to spine. Some shelf wear, rubbing, discoloration, and dry rot to binding. Somewhat foxed. Open tear to lower corner of p. 169. Black ink annotations to title page in secretary hand. Complete in spite of pagination. JR Consignment. Shelved Room G.
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One volume from the first great collection ever compiled of the ancient ecclesiastical writers is that of Marguerin de la Bigne, French theologian, patrologist, and canon of Bayeux (ca. 1546-1595). His Bibliotheca Sanctorum Patrum, in nine volumes (Paris, 1575-1579), contained the text of more than 200 writers of the early and Middle Ages and was the pioneer in the field of critical patristics. The work developed into the Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, published in Lyon in 27 folio volumes (1677) and edited by Philippus Despontius. It is still considered one of the principal patristic collections, next to Migne which is more complete but carelessly edited and often inaccurate.