SUMPTUOUS EDITION OF ST. CYRILL'S COLLECTED WORKS
WITH THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT

[Christian Orthodox Thought, Greece] Cyrill, Saint. Tou en agiois patros emon Kyrillou Ierosolymon archiepiskopou Ta euriskomena panta. S. Cyrilli archiepiscopi Hierosolymitani Opera quae exstant omnia, et ejus nomine circumferuntur, ad manuscriptos codices, nec-non ad superiores editiones castigata ... Cura & studio Antonii- Augustini Toutte, presbyter. Venice, Typografia Sansoniana, 1763 [Venetiis : exudebant Franciscum Sansoni et Antonius Zatta, 1763].

Folio, full vellum, pp. [4], XIV, ccl columns, ccli-ccxlii [i.e. cclxii], 411, 412-419 col., 420-473, [3], [1 plate]. Greek-Latin parallel text. Head- and tail-pieces engraved by Francesco Zucchi and Francesco Sansoni.

Between col. 413-414 the engraved plate with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. It is a few steps away from the Muristan.
The site is venerated as Golgotha (the Hill of Calvary), where Jesus was crucified and is said also to contain the place where Jesus was buried (the Sepulchre). The church has been a paramount "and for many Christians the most important" pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the purported site of the resurrection of Jesus. Today it also serves as the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, while control of the building is shared between several Christian churches and secular entities in complicated arrangements essentially unchanged for centuries. Today, the church is home to branches of Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy as well as to Roman Catholicism. Anglican and Protestant Christians have no permanent presence in the Church "and some have regarded the alternative Garden Tomb, elsewhere in Jerusalem, as the true place of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection".

Beautiful second absolute edition of Saint Cyrill's "Collected Works" in the original Greek language, edited by Dom Antoine-Augustin Toutte (1677-1718), a Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation.

This second edition of the works of Cyril of Jerusalem follows the first printed at Paris in 1720, also edited by Toutte. The scholar also wrote three dissertations on the life, writings and doctrine of Saint Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem and Doctor of the Church, which here precede the Greek/Latin text of Cyril himself.

References: IT\ICCU\RMLE\033814. Graesse II, 317. Ebert I, 495.

A good copy.