GREGOIRE DE NAZIANCE Carmina, cum versione latina.

Renouard, 4; Ahmanson-Murphy, 84 (“under: Poetae Christiani, v.3”); Adams, G-1142; Aldo Manuzio tipographo, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 86 .

Editio princeps of the most famous of all collections of poetry of the primlitve Church. Carmina comprises 17 000 verses and are written on the request of the Greek fathers at the time when it was believed that Christianity was in need of literary culture in order to compete with much older Greek traditions. Copy complete with the rare two errata leaves bound in at end, but without the excessively rare two leaves of index. Some Greek notes in the margins. Some spotting at the beginning.