109 - A mock collection of four works from the 16th or early 17th century bound together in one in-8 volume, soft vellum, with a handwritten title on the spine. Scattered foxing; a small tear in the upper margin of the title page of the first folio of the first text; browning and paper loss in the lower portion of the last 40 folios of the last text.

A mock collection of four works from the 16th or early 17th century bound together in one in-8 volume, soft vellum, with a handwritten title on the spine. Scattered foxing; a small tear in the upper margin of the title page of the first folio of the first text; browning and paper loss in the lower portion of the last 40 folios of the last text. 1/ NICEPHORUS I. *Chronologia tripertita* by the Blessed Nicephorus, Bishop of Constantinople, formerly translated into Latin by Anastasius, librarian of the Apostolic See, and several years ago by Ioach. Camerarius, but now corrected in accordance with Anastasius’s original copy and annotated by Ant. Contium. Preceded by the Latin and Greek calendars of both churches. Paris, Gilles Gourbin (Aegidius Gorbinus), 1573. A new edition of this ecclesiastical chronology attributed to Nicephorus I (758–828), Patriarch of Constantinople, translated from Greek into Latin by Anastasius the Librarian, then by Joachim Camerarius, and revised and annotated by Antoine Le Conte. It is preceded by the calendars of the Latin and Greek Churches. 2/ MANUCE (Alde the Younger). Ad Sixtum V. Pont. Opt. Max. Oratio Aldi Manuccii, delivered at the Academy of Bologna. Lyon, Benoît Rigaud, n.d. [ca. 1585]. A Latin speech delivered by Aldus Manutius the Younger (1547–1597) before the Academy of Bologna, in honor of Pope Sixtus V, who was elected to the papacy in April 1585. Papal coat of arms engraved on the title page. 3/ [Plantin] [BEYERLINCK (Laurent)]. Seminarii Antverpiensis parentalia in funere reverendissimi domini Ioannis Miraei, Antverpiensium episcopi suique institutoris, perorante Laurentio Beyerlinck. Antwerp, from the Plantinian press, published by the widow and sons of Io. Moreti, 1611. First edition of this funeral oration dedicated to Jean Le Mire (1560–1611), the fourth Bishop of Antwerp. A Plantinian print adorned with the episcopal coat of arms on the title page. 4/ [Plantin] CASSIODORUS (Flavius Magnus Aurelius). Magni Aurelii Cassiodori senatoris Institutionis divinarum lectionum, Book I. A work useful to students of both sacred scripture and antiquity... Now published in print for the first time by Jacob Pamel of Bruges. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1566. First printed edition of this fundamental treatise by Cassiodorus (c. 485–580), prepared by the Flemish humanist and theologian Jacques de Pamele (1536–1587), who included a catalog of ancient commentators on the Bible.