1516 POST-INCUNABULA BIBLE COMMENTARIES by ST. AMBROSE antique

POST-INCUNABULA [St. Ambrose of Milan] Secunda pars operum sancti Ambrosii episcopi Mediolanensis (Second Part of the works of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan) Basel: Adam Petri for Johann Koberger; 1516 Folio, printed in Gothic type in double columns, with an elaborate woodcut title-page border and numerous woodcut initials. The volume contains Ambrose's biblical commentaries, including expositions of the Psalms and Pauline Epistles. Original leather over wooden boards, worn, with damages, lacks spine and clasps. Some wormholes to the covers and few first and last leaves. Otherwise very clean and crisp interior With old manuscript institutional provenance inscription at the title page, apparently referring to the Biblioteca Seminarii S. Caroli Borromei. Size: 8. 5 by 12. 5" Text in Latin