Paolo Comitolo, trans.; [Nicetas of Heraclea]. CATENA IN BEATISSIMUM IOB ABSOLUTISSIMA, E QUATTUOR & VIGINTI GRAECIAE DOCTORUM EXPLANATIONIBUS CONTEXTA. Venice: Apud Iolitos, 1587. Half bound over marbled paper boards, edges speckled. 4to; *8 2*4 3*4 A-B8 C4 D-2L8 2M-2P4; [32], 544, [24]pp. Roman with italic type; text in Latin translated from the Greek. With index, errata, printed marginalia, one woodcut illustration, printer's device on title page and rear colophon, and woodcut initials, ornaments, and head-pieces. Adams C2466.

8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Paolo Comitolo (Perugia, 1544-1626) was a Jesuit, teacher, and theologian. Catena in Beatissimum Job, one of his best-known works, offers a Latin translation of the Catena on Job by 11th-century Greek deacon and writer Nicetas of Heraclea. It was published first in Lyon, and in Venice the following year.

Boards scuffed, with edgewear, corners bumped, spine significantly rubbed with leather losses, joints cracked leading to partial separation of upper board; front paste-down with large sticker from Essex Institute and manuscript, free endpaper with tear; title page with minor ink mark; pages lightly toned overall with occasional heavier toning, foxing heaviest at preliminaries and index; one page with pencil marginalia, one leaf trimmed close at upper margin, and one leaf with margin tear.