Bound in a manuscript fragment from a 12th-century Bible.
[Manuscript fragment]. S. Patris Ioannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani tractatus Panegyrici III Graecolatini, accesserunt orationes duaes Basilij de Jeiunio. In usum scholarum Societatis Iesu. Monachii: Ex typographeo Nicolai Henrici, Impensis Ioannis Hertsroy Bibl., 1613. 12mo [12.4 x 8.2 cm], 263, [1] p. errata, with woodcut device of Society of Jesus on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials. In contemporary vellum binding of re-used 12th-century manuscript fragment, remnants of ties, early ownership inscription (“Carolus Fieger”) on lower cover and lower free endpaper (“Carolus Fieger Physice Studiosus Salisburgensis Hallae”). Bunding stained, some rubbing affecting a few letters. Internal staining to some quires, occasional edge wear.
Rare (no U.S. copies) 1613 Munich edition of three panegyrics by St. John Chrysostom and two orations by St. Basil’s. The volume is of note for having been bound in a manuscript fragment from a 12th-century Bible, whose script is consistent with South German work. The leaf likely came from a scriptorium near Munich, where the 1613 book was published.
The St. John Chrysostom texts are his three panegyrics on St. Luke, the Egyptian martyrs, and St. Julian martyr, and St. Basil’s two orations constitute his “On Fasting.” The book, printed expressly for the use of Jesuit students (“In usum scholarum Societatis Iesu”), provides the Greek text with facing-page Latin translations.
The text of the manuscript fragment is from 2 Corinthians 11:22-29:
[22 Hebraei sunt, et ego : Israelitae sunt, et ego : semen] Abrahae sunt, et ego. 23 Ministri Christi sunt (ut minus sapiens dico), plus ego: in laboribus plurimis, in carceribus abundantius, in plagis supra modum, in mortibus frequenter. 24 A Judaeis quinquies, quadragenas, una minus, accepi. 25 Ter virgis caesus sum, semel lapidatus sum : ter naufragium feci, nocte et die in profundo maris fui, 26 in itineribus saepe, periculis fluminum, periculis latronum, periculis ex genere, periculis ex gentibus, periculis in civitate, periculis in solitudine, periculis in mari, periculis in falsis fratribus : 27 in labore et aerumna, in vigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in jejuniis multis, in frigore et nuditate, 28 praeter illa quae extrinsecus sunt, instantia mea quotidiana, sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. 29 Quis infirmatur, et ego non infirmor? Quis [scandalizatur, et ego non uror? 30 Si gloriari oportet, quae infirmitatis meae sunt, gloriabor.]
[22 They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I.] They are [the seed] of Abraham: so am I. 23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise). I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. 26 In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren. 27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who [is scandalized, and I am not on fire?] (Douay-Rheims).
The volume was owned by a certain student of physic, Carolus Fieger of Salzburg (or nearby Bad Reichenhall (“Salisburgensis Hallae”). Fieger also wrote his name prominently on the lower cover of the book.
OCLC & KVK locate no U.S. copies of this work.
*VD17 23:317875Z.