Opus Aureum et Scholasticum: in Quo Continentur Pythagorae Carmina Aurea, Phocylidis, Theognidis & Aliorum Poemata  [BOUND WITH] Apostolorum et Sanctorum Conciliorum Decreta

Michael Neander; Pythagoras; Coluthus, Tryphiodorus; Quintus of Smyrna; Lucian of Samosata; Elias Ehinger

Lipsiae: Johannes Steinman, 1577

Golden verses. Thick folio quarto, 22 x 17 cm.  3 parts in one volume, bound with a later work.  Collated: 789, [3]; 268, [16]; 191 pages + [18], 456, [26] pages. Pages 82-83 and 86-87 of the second part of Coluthus blank due to a printer's error, these two pages provided in facsimile.  Bound in fine modern vellum.  Good binding and cover.

Enlarged ed. of the collection published at Basel in 1559 under title: En lector, librum damus uere aureum, planeq[ue] scholasticum, quo continentur haec.  Greek texts accompanied by annotations and Latin translation.  Primarily Greek Gnomic texts, and epigrams.    Besides the work of Pythagoras, contains Trojan War epic verse by Coluthus, Tryphiodorus, and Quintus of Smyrna as well as Lucian of Samosata's Gallus. 

Contents: Pythagorae Carmina aurae --Phocylidae Poema admonitorium --Theognidis Gnomologia --Gnomologici libri duo --Apophthegmatvm libri duo --Nili Praecepta de pietate & moribus --Colvthi Helenae raptus --Tryphiodori De Troiae excidio --Cointi De Troiae excidio lib. duo --Eivsdem Reditus Graecorum liber vnus --Luciani Samosateni Somnium seu Gallus<br> Additionally another title bound at the end: Apostolorum et sanctorum conciliorum decretal, Wittenberg: Seelfisch, 1614. Greek text and Latin translation of the Apostolic Canons and decrees of the early Church Synods through the Second Council of Nicaea, edited by Elias Ehinger. <br> Refs: Adams P2311; Hoffmann III, 234-35.