Greek Orthodox Church

4to (206 x 132mm.), text in Greek with privilege in Latin, printed in red and black throughout, woodcut headpieces and initials, ruled in red throughout, early nineteenth-century Parisian brown morocco gilt, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, spine slightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed, corners bumped

Library of the convent of the Order of Minims of St Roche in Toulouse (dissolved in 1790), inscription at head of first leaf

Censimento 16 CNCE 12035; Legrand I, 76

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First edition of John Chrysostom's liturgies, containing the final privilege leaf which is often lacking. A second edition was quickly forthcoming from the da Sabbio press in Venice in 1528. Doukas, from Crete, had worked as an editor for Aldus Manutius in Venice before becoming professor of Greek at the Complutensian University in Alcalá in 1509, where he had worked on the Greek text of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible (see lot 15). This is his only publication, and it is thought that he used the type of Zacharias Kallierges, whose press in Rome had ceased publication in 1523.