Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage. Sancti Cæcilii CYPRIANI OPERA recognita et illustrata per Joannem Oxoniensem Episcopum ; accedunt Annales Cyprianici, sive, Tredecim Annorum ; quibus S. Cyprianus inter Christianos versatus est, brevis historia Chronologice delineata per Joannem Cestriensem. Bremæ: Hermanni Braueri, 1690. [11927]
Sometime bound in half brown buckram with marbled boards, leather spine label "CYPRIANI | OPERA | 1790." (The true date of this volume is 1690).
Small paper label at base of spine, "Trinity College Library" stamped beneath it. 15 x 10 1/4 inches, joints very good, tight. College library bookplate at front, card pocket at back. Title page printed in red & black, is somewhat edge-tattered, with old repair on verso. The text is complete. There are 40 leaves of preliminaries including "Index operum omnium", "Index S. Scripturarum toto opere citatarum", and "Index alphabeticus," plus one leaf half-title page. Then pp. 1-72 (skips p. nos. 15-16 without loss of text); [1]-244; [1]-240 (p. 216 misnumbered as 198); [1]-40; [1]-110 (skips page nos. 57-58 with no loss of text; 52 misnumbered as 42, 72 as 27); [1]-72; [4], 1-118; [1]-37. Counted and complete. Text is in good condition with some marginal stains, foxing, pinhole worming in the margins; one leaf with short tear in the margin. Good. Hardcover.
This edition first published in 1682 at Oxford; the text is in Latin with some Greek.
The works of Saint Caecilius Cyprianus (c. 210-258), Bishop of Carthage, in which city he was born and died.
"A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist controversy and outbreak of the Plague of Cyprian (named for his description of it), and eventual martyrdom at Carthage established his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church. His skillful Latin rhetoric led to his being the pre-eminent Latin writer of Western Christianity until Jerome and Augustine." - Henry Palmer Chapman, Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4.
St. Cyprian was executed during the Valerian persecutions.
"CYPRIAN, Thascius Caecilius: A principal father of the Christian Church. Born at Carthage, in Africa, about 200. Embraced Christianity 246. Chosen Bishop of Carthage 248. During the persecution by Decius he fled, for which he was much blamed, but he justified himself on solid principles. Under Valerian he was banished in 257, and the following year he was seized and beheaded at Carthage." - Darling, Cyclopaedia Bibliographica.
