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Author: Ambrose, Saint Bishop of Milan
Title: Sancti Ambrosii Mediolanensis Episcopi Opera
Place Published: Parisiis [Paris].
Publisher:Cum privilegio Regis
Date Published: 1614
Description:

5 volumes bound in 2. [8], 96, 1150; 655; [4], 552, [8], 688, [44], 208 numbered columns. With engraved portrait frontispiece, title pages with large woodcut devices, head and tail pieces, initials throughout. (Folio) 40x26 cm (16¾x10"), period speckled calf with gilt-stamped armorial decoration, rebacked with later calf, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Ex Editione Romana.

St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century. He was one of the four original Doctors of the Church and served as a mentor to St. Augustine. He is patron saint of Milan.

Fair amount of wear and scuffing to original calf, with some areas of loss and wormholing; interiors with some dampstaining at bottom margins, some minor tears and chips to page edges, large nearly full page dampstain to later leaves of second volume, p. 390-91 with 3" strip of text torn out, blank leaf of at rear of volume 2 with wormholing and large piece torn away at bottom corner, last few blanks excised; overall good or better.