PIERRE DE BLOIS. Opera Petri Blesensis… nunc primum in lucem producta… Moguntiae, ex Off. Typogr. J. Albini, 1600.

PIERRE DE BLOIS. Opera Petri Blesensis... nunc primum in lucem producta... Moguntiae, ex Off. typogr. J. Albini, 1600. In-4, [20] f., 607 p., [36] f., contemporary full ivory-turned leather, 5-ribbed spine, handwritten title on label, cold fillet bordering caissons and boards, traces of laces (spine rubbed, some nerves uncovered, boards soiled; stains at foot of title, paper uniformly browned; 4 limine ff. out of order). Edition of the works of Pierre de Blois (c. 1130 - c. 1200), "an excellent scholar, court prelate and expert diplomat who played an important role in twelfth-century politics" (Molinier, Sources, 1902, p.201). A native of Blois, he was a pupil of John of Salisbury, studied theology in Paris and law in Bologna; secretary to King Henry II and then Queen Eleanor, he was Archdeacon of London at the end of his life. Text based on manuscripts by Jean Busée (1547-1611), a Jesuit born in Nijmegen who taught in Mainz. Old annotations on title and endpapers.