D. CAECILII CYPRIANI
episcopi carthaginiensis & martyris,
OPERA.
Lugduni: Apud. seb. Gryphium; 1550
Size 4.5 by 6.5"
466 pp. + 8 lvs.
bound with:
D. CAECILII CYPRIANI ...
ALTER TOMUS OPERUM.
456 pp. + 3 lvs.
Full period vellum with manuscript title on the spine, lacks ties
Title page with some old marginalia and library stamp.
Some old marginalia in the text.
Minor foxing.
Otherwise very good condition.
Text in Latin

Cyprian (Latin: Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus; c. 210 – 14 258 AD) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches. Often referred to as the Patron Saint of witchcraft and sorcery in Wicca.
He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education.
Soon after converting to Christianity, he became a bishop in 249. A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist heresy and outbreak of the Plague of Cyprian (named after him due to 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 considered the pre-eminent Latin writer of Western Christianity until Jerome and Augustine.



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