S. Isidori Pelusiotae De interpretatione divinae Scripturae Epistolarum Libri IV. Quorum tres priores cum Latina interpretatione cl. v. Iac. Billii Prunaei primum ante annos XX Parisiis prodiêre ; Iam vero sub prelum reuocati ... descriptus [et] latinus factus a Cunrado Rittershusio

[Heidelberg]: Ex officina Commeliniana., 1605.. With some mild browning, otherwise a very good example.

. Binding: contemporary full vellum, flat spine., Notes: Isidore of Pelusium (c.450) was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic, and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers.
Isidore is known to us for his letters, written to Cyril of Alexandria, Theodosius II, and a host of others. A collection of 2,000 letters was made in antiquity at the "Sleepless" monastery in Constantinople, and this has come down to us through a number of manuscripts, with each letter numbered and in order. The letters are mostly very short extracts, a sentence or two in length. Further unpublished letters exist in Syriac translation. Some of the letters are of considerable interest for the exegesis of the Greek bible. He is revered as a saint, whose feast day is February 4. The only extant works of St. Isidore are a considerable correspondence, comprising more than 2000 letters. The historian Nicephorus states that St Isidore wrote more than 10,000 letters to various people, in which he reprimanded one, advised another, consoled a third, instructed a fourth.
, Size: Folio (335 x 200 mm), , Illustration: Text in two columns, and in parallel Latin and Greek.
, Provenance: Ex-Libris on front pasted and title page: Vereen Doopsg Gemeente (Amsterdam), Category: Book Religious Christianity; Book Social Sciences