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Ancient world 340 National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Seminar (2004: Duke University) Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity: papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University. (Series:Duke Judaic studies series; v. 3). Edited by Eric M. Meyers and Paul V.M. Flesher. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010, xx, 300p, bib, index. New in dust jacket. $20.00
Contents:Introduction -- Awakening sleeping texts -- Reconsidering the letter of Mara Bar Serapion / David Rensberger -- "Transgressive": meaning and implications of 'wl' in Jewish Syriac text and translation / Sigrid Peterson -- The composition of the Qenneshråe fragment / Michael Penn -- A note on an Aramaic date formula found at Nabratein and Zoar / Eric M. Meyers -- When? "After the destruction of the temple" / Paul V.M. Flesher -- The details of language -- The function of the active participle in the Aramaic of Daniel / Tarsee Li -- Tracing the history of a legal term of… Read More

Gaelic 366 O'Donnell, Manus. Beatha Cholm Cille. Sleachta as Betha Colaim Chille a thiomsaigh Manus O Donaill. Sa bhliain 1532 A. D. Arna cur in eagar i litriu na linne seo mar aon le reamhra, notai, focloir agus inneacsanna. Dublin: Foilseachain Naisiunta Teoranta, 1981, 226p. Some spotting to side paper edge, spine little out of square, else decent in dust jacket $35.00

Gaelic 018 Beatha San Froinsias. Edited by Padraig O Suilleabhain, O.F.M. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1957, xlvi, 142p, notes, index, corrigenda. (Volume IV of Scribhinni Gaeilge na mBrathar Mionur). Spine little dull, offsetting on endpapers from cover cloth, good copy. $65.00

Middle Ages 103ke (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153). Wolfenbütteler Symposion (27th: 1990). Bernhard von Clairvaux: Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit. Herausgegeben von Kaspar Elm. (Series: Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien; Bd. 6). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994, 436 pages: illustrations, bib, index. Fine bright copy of the hardcover. $65.00 Box A 103
Contents: Die Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte Bernhards von Clairvaux: Forschungsstand und Forschungsaufgaben/Ulrich Kopf -- Historischer Schriftsinn und ironische Weltbetrachtung: Buchmalerei im frơhen Citeaux und der Stein des Anstosses/ Ursula Nilgen -- Der heilige Bernhard von Clairvaux im Mittelalter von der historischen Person zur Kultgestalt/ Adriaan H. Bredero -- The reception of St. Bernard in England/ Christopher Holdsworth -- A saint's afterlife: Bernhard in the Golden legend and in other medieval collections/ Brian Patrick McGuire -- Bernhard von Clairvaux im spatmittelalterlichen Gebetbuchern/… Read More

Gaelic 019 Bethu Phatraic. The Tripartite Life of Patrick. Edited with translation and indexes by Kathleen Mulchrone. I. Text and Sources. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1939, x, 158p. Volume II, the translation, was never published. Very good to fine copy. $35.00
"The present edition is based on the text of the late fifteenth century manuscript, Egerton 93, British museum, London ... [and] is ... the first edition of the Tripartite life in its uninterpolated form as compiled in the reign of Cenn Gégán, king-bishop of Cashel, during the years 895-901"--Preface.

Gaelic040
Buaidh na Naomhchroiche. Edited with notes by Padraig O Suilleabhain, O. F. M. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972, xlviii, 549p, notes, glossary, index. Little shelf wear, good copy. 17th century translation of Savonarola's Triumphis Crucis into Gaelic by Fr. Bonaveantur O Conchuir. Book is in Irish and Latin, the glossary in Irish and English. $40.00

Middle Ages102cl77 Capgrave, John, 1393-1464. The life of St. Norbert by John Capgrave, O.E.S.A. (1393-1464). Edited by Cyril Lawrence Smetana, O. S. A.(Series: Studies and texts/Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 40). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977, viii, 179 pages, illus, glossary, bib, index. Paperback. Fine copy in bright red paper and black type. $37.50 Box A 102
Notes: Text edited from MS. HM 55, Henry E. Huntington Library. Middle English verse translation of the Latin Vita Sancti Norberti.
John Capgrave (21 April 1393 – 12 August 1464) was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian, remembered chiefly for Nova Legenda Angliae (New Reading from England). This was the first comprehensive collection of lives of the English saints.

Cornwall 1040 Harris, J. Henry. Cornish Saints & Sinners. With numerous drawings by L. Raven-Hill. London. John Lane/The Bodley Head Limited, 1931, vii, (1), 312p. Frontispiece and illustrations. Printed light blue cloth, rubbed and fraying to spine, overall sun fading, damp spotting to paper edges and page block. Overall, not a bad copy, not good but acceptable. $10.00

Cornwall 1010 Baring-Gould, Sabine,1834-1924. Cornish characters and strange events. With sixty-two full-page illustrations reproduced from old prints. London/New York: John Lane, 1909, 2 p. 1., [vii]-xviii p., 1 l., 774 p. 62 plates, index. Overall cover wear and the usual fading but a good, tight, clean copy else. A very substantial book. They made books well in those days. $25.00

English history 700 Edmund, Saint, King of East Anglia, 841-870. Corolla Sancti Eadmundi. The garland of Saint Edmund, king and martyr. Edited by Francis Hervey. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1907, lxiii, 672 p, index, plates (part. col.), port., facsims., map. Decorated vellum spine with clover leaf decorations, red cloth boards, foxing on endpapers and extending into the last 10 pages or so of the index. Very attractive binding. From the library of Walter Muir Whitehill, with his bookplate. New York imprint but the book was produced in England. $50.00

Middle Ages 69g84p (Gregory the Great). Petersen, Joan M. The
Dialogues of Gregory the Great in their late antique cultural background.
(Series: Studies and Texts, 69). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1984, xxiv, 227 pages, bibliography, index. Paperback, with plasticized cover. Some curling to cover. From the library of a well-known professor of medieval studies. Book is in clean, tight, good condition. $25.00 Box A 100

Philosophy 018 American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. Dionysius. Washington, D. C.: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Volume LXXXII, Fall 2008, No. 4. Pages 555 to 719. Paperbound, fine copy. $15.00 Box A 101
Dionysius the Areopagite (Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης) was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations. After his conversion, Dionysius became the first Bishop of Athens. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches. He is the patron saint of Athens and is venerated as the protector of the Judges and the Judiciary. His memory is celebrated on October 3.

Ancient world 580-2
Dunn, E. Catherine (Ellen Catherine), 1916- The Gallican saint's life and the late Roman dramatic tradition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1989, ix, 164p, bib, index. Like new in dust jacket. $15.00

Religion 103hb (Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373). Edited by Alf Härdelin and Mereth Lindgren. Heliga Birgitta, budskapet och förebilden: föredrag vid jubileumssymposiet i Vadstena 3-7 oktober 1991. (Series: Konferenser/(Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademien); 28). Stockholm, Sweden: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien: Distributed by Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993, 343 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Softcover, fine, bright copy. There is an illustrated glossy dust jacket that covers the paperbound volume. The dust jacket has some pretty minor ruffling to back cover panel. $20.00
Note: In Swedish and English; summaries in English. "This volume contains the bulk of the contributions to a symposium on Sr Birgitta, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Letters…to commemorate the sixth centenary of Birgitta's canonization. Special attention is paid to the theological, spiritual and socio-political teaching of the Saint, as this comes to the… Read More

Catholic Church 005 Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Hildegardis Liber vite meritorum. Edidit Angela Carlevaris. (Series Title: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis, 90). Turnholti: Brepols, 1995, lxvi, 426 pages, bib, indexes. Fine copy of the hardcover. With introduction and commentary in German, text in Latin. $110.00 Box 399

Ancient world 588c2 Einhard, approximately 770-840. The History of the Translation of the Blessed Martyrs of Christ, Marcellinus and Peter. The English version by Barrett Wendell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926, 114p. Title page printed in black and red. "Five hundred copies printed ... Type arranged by Bruce Rogers." Fine copy in fine dust jacket which in turn is protected by a mylar dust jacket. The History of the translation is included in Teulet's edition of Einhard's works. Most pages still uncut. $20.00

Ancient world 588 Einhard, approximately 770-840. The History of the Translation of the Blessed Martyrs of Christ, Marcellinus and Peter. The English version by Barrett Wendell. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926, 114p. Title page printed in black and red. "Five hundred copies printed ... Type arranged by Bruce Rogers." Some fraying to head and heel of spine, good copy. The History of the translation
is included in Teulet's edition of Einhard's works. Friendly signed letter from Barrett Wendell, 1855-1921, tipped in. $25.00

France 112vsc La Vie de Seint Clement. Volumes III: Introduction, Notes and glossary. Edited by Daron Burrows. (Series:Anglo-Norman Text Society, No. LXVII). London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2009, xiv, 196 pages, bib. Green hardback with gilt on spine. Fine condition. $16.50 Box A 112

France 113lvsc La Vie de Seint Clement. Volume I -Text (1-7006). Edited by Daron Burrows. (Series:Anglo-Norman Text Society, No. LVIV-LXV). London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2007, 197 pages. Green hardback with gilt on spine. Fine condition. $16.50 Box A 113

Gaelic 192Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart. The Latin & Irish lives of Ciaran. London/New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/ Macmillan Company, 1921, v, 190 p, index, pub ads. (Translations of Christian literature. Series 5, Lives of the Celtic Saints). ("The Latin text of the Second life": p. 172-183./ Includes bibliographical footnotes and index). This is an ex-library copy with library stamps and label, remains of card pocket, wear to cover, fraying to spine, the spine has also been repaired. Page block is tight and clean. Acceptable copy ONLY $20.00