Search Results: Eastern Christians from Focloir

Religion 113fek Fowden, Elizabeth Key. The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, xix, 227 pages: illustrations, maps, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $25.00 Box A 113
Contents: 1. Portraits of a Martyr -- The Passio of SS. Sergius and Bacchus -- History in the Passio: The Emperor -- The Hagiographic Milieu -- Alexander of Hierapolis and the Early Cult of S. Sergius -- Images of S. Sergius -- 2. Martyr Cult on the Frontier: The Case of Mayperqat -- Relics and Defense -- At the World's Center -- The Ecumenical City of Martyrs -- The Iranian Viewpoint -- 3. Rusafa -- The Frontier Zone -- A Place of Convergence -- The Fortress-Shrine -- Pilgrimage to Rusafa -- 4. The Spread of the Sergius Cult in Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Hawran -- West of the Steppe -- Northern Syria and Mesopotamia -- The Iranian Empire -- 5. Frontier Shrine and Frontier Saint -- Justinian, Theodora, and S. Sergius -- Iranian Interest in S. Sergius -- The Ghassanid… Read More

Byzantium mpch Michel Psellos, 1017/18 -1096? Chronographie, ou, Histoire d'un Siecle de Byzance (976-1077). Texte etabli et traduit par Emile Renauld. Two volumes. Paris: Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1926-1928, lxxxviii, 155p; 199p, index, addenda et corrigenda. Ex-library copies but good to very good in cloth with marbled paper over cover. Greek and French translation on facing pages. Important Byzantine work. $55.00 Box 21 Michael Psellos or Psellus was a Byzantine Greek monk, savant, writer, philosopher, imperial courtier, historian and music theorist. He was born in 1017 or 1018, and is believed to have died in 1078, although it has also been maintained that he remained alive until 1096.

Ancient world 396 Beckwith, John, 1918-1991. Coptic sculpture, 300-1300. [Chapters in art series, v. 37]. London, Alec Tiranti, 1963, vii, 56 p, bib, notes, 147 photographic illustrations of book. Squarish book, 6 ½" x 7 ½". Good, clean tight copy in dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. $25.00

Middle East 107b23d Bianquis, Thierry. Damas et la Syrie sous la Domination Fatimide (359-468/969-1076): Essai d'Interpretation de Chroniques Arabes Medievales. Volumes I and II.Damascus, Syria: Institut Francais de Damas, 1986-1989, xxii, 387 pages; pages 391 to 800, maps, bib, index, errata. Paperbound volumes. A few of the top edge pages have been carelessly opened. The cover to Volume II, which is in paperback but with a plasticized coating, has a small blemish where a sticker was removed. The books are in very good condition, attractively bound with red and black lettering on the covers. The volumes are Bianquis's thesis from the Sorbonne. Bianquis was a noted scholar on Islam. The two volumes: $45.00 Box 399.

Ancient world 1299Tertullian, Tertullianus, Quintus Septimius Florens. De praescriptione haereticorum.
Ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Johannes Dietrich Schleyer. [Fontes Christiani; Bd. 42]. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002, 363p, bib, index. Very good copy. Latin with German translation (text and translation actually begins on page 231).
$37.50

Persia rmep (du Mans, Father Raphael, 1613-1696). Raphaël, du Mans, 1613-1696. Estat de la Perse en 1660. Par le P. Raphaël du Mans; publié avec notes et appendice par Ch. Schefer. Farnborough Hants, England: Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969, cxv, 464 pages, bib., index. This is the Gregg reprint of the work first published in 1890 by Editions Leroux in Paris. An attractive title page in black and red ink, a copy of the original Paris edition. Very good, clean, tight copy, bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very uncommon and important work. $95.00 Box B4
Contents: pt. 1. Estat de la Perse en 1660 -- pt. 2. Appendice ; Index des mots persans, arabes et turcs ; Index alphabétique.
Charles Henri Auguste Schefer, 1820-1898, wrote the very useful preface.

Philosophy 02511. Gemistus Plethon, George, c. 1355/1360 – 1452/1454. Geōrgiou Gemistou Plēthōnos Peri aretōn = Georges Gémiste Plethon Traité des vertus. Edition critique avec introduction, traduction et commentaire par Brigitte Tambrun-Krasker. (Series: Corpus philosophorum Medii Aevi. Philosophi Byzantini; 3). Athēnai: Akadēmia Athēnōn; Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill, 1987, xcii, 127 pages, bib, indices. Hardcover volume, has blindstamp of collector on flyleaf, some minor inoffensive waviness on some pages. Overall, book is in very good condition. Book in French and Greek. $60.00 Box A 96
Georgios Gemistos Plethon (Greek: Γεώργιος Γεμιστός Πλήθων; Latin: Georgius Gemistus Pletho c. 1355/1360 – 1452/1454), commonly known as Gemistos Plethon, was a Greek scholar and one of the most renowned philosophers of the late Byzantine era. He was a chief pioneer of the revival of Greek scholarship in Western Europe. As revealed in his last literary work, the Nomoi… Read More

Coptic113 Amélineau, E. (Emile), 1850-1915. Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Egypte: vies des saints Paul, Antoine, Macaire, Maxime et Domèce, Jean le Nain, etc: texte copte et traduction française. (Series: Monuments pour servir à l'histoire de l'Égypte chrétienne). Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1894, lxiii, 429 pages. Paperback, photographic reprint. This not the original imprint but a photographic reprint. An on-demand reprint by Hachette in association with the Bibliotheque Nationale. The introduction is in French and the bulk of the book is in Coptic with French translations. Very good condition. Don't have any idea as to the date of the reprint, maybe in the early 21st century. $35.00 Box A 113

Coptic kkcn Kuratorium des Villa Hugel. Koptische Kunst; Christentum am Nil. 3, Mai bis 15, August 1963. In Villa Hugel, Essen. Essen: Villa Hugel, 1963, 628 pages: illus., map, plates (part. col.). Paperbound. Good copy. This is a complicated bibliographical issue. Virtually all the entries on OCLC and Amazon refer to a catalogue published in 1964 which was based on this exhibition held at the Gemeinnütziger Verein Villa Hügel, Essen, in 1963). The 1964 catalogue had about 250 pages. $30.00

RL 1145 Brightman, Frank Edward and Charles Edward Hammond. Liturgies eastern and western. Vol.1 Eastern liturgies: being the texts original or translated of the principal liturgies of the Church. Edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896, civ, 603p, glossary, index. Original gilt-blocked cloth, fraying to corners and at head and heel of spine, some along spine edge. Some bottom corners of pages at back folded over. At some point in the past, the front inner hinge has been neatly repaired. All in all, a decent copy of a wonderful work. Sadly, no more published, Brightman died before the volume on Western liturgies was written. A great loss to scholarship. The Syrian rite -- A. The apostolic constitutions -- i. Structure and sources -- ii. The compiler -- iii. The liturgical forms -- 1. The Clementine liturgy -- 2. The order of the liturgy in the second book -- B. The Greek liturgies -- C. The… Read More

Middle Ages 274j5 Geanakoplos, Deno John. Medieval Western Civilization and the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Interaction of three Cultures. Lexington. MA: D. C. Heath, 1979, x, 513 pages, maps, illus, index. Good, solid copy. $14.50

Byzantium ulp Paliouras, Athanasios D., Damaskēnos, Metropolitan of Switzerland, 1936-, and Garo Nalbandian, Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarchate). The Oecumenical Patriarchate: the Great Church of Christ. (Translation of: To Oikoumeniko Patriarcheio). Geneva, Switzerland: Orthodox Centre of the Oecumenical Patriarchate/Athens, Greece: E. Tzaferis S.A., 1989, 374 pages, illus. (many colored), bib, index. Very heavy and very large (34 cm) book. Good to very good in dust jacket. $50.00 Under lamp
Notes: [publication director, Solon Tzaferis; general supervision and editing, Athanasios Paliouras; contributors, Damascinos, V. Phidas, A. Pasadaios ... [et al.] ; translation, G.D. Dragas, H. Zigada ; photography, Garo Nalbandian].
From the blurb: "This authoritatively written and splendidly illustrated work is a special edition dedicated to the Oecumenical Patriarchate, 'the Great Church of Christ'. In 376 pages with a wealth of coloured photographs, plans and drawings, the book records the age-long… Read More

Modern Greece 002 Frazee, Charles A. The Orthodox Church and independent Greece, 1821-1852. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969, viii, 220p, bib, index. A very nice bright clean tight copy with only the slightest hint of offsetting on the front free endpaper from the review slip laid in. Also laid in are some newspaper clippings pertaining to the Patriarchate in Istanbul. $32.50

Ancient world 1122 Rogers, Francis M. The Quest for Eastern Christians: Travels and Rumor in the Age of Discovery. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962, xii, 221p, notes, bib, index. Very good in dust jacket. $20.00

Ancient world 1321 Tisserant, Eugène, 1884-1972. Recueil Cardinal Eugène Tisserant: "Ab Oriente et Occidente." Publié par Sever Pop avec la collaboration de Georges Levi della Vida, Gérard Garitte et Octave Bârlea. (Travaux publiés par le Centre international de dialectologie générale près l'Université catholique de Louvain). Two volumes. Louvain: Centre international de dialectologie générale, 1955, (xxxi, 818 p.) illus., ports., facsims. Paperbound volumes, in good to very good shape. Very scarce set by a great scholar on Eastern Christians. ("Principales publications de Son Éminence le cardinal Eugène Tisserant (1907-1955)": p. [13]-21). The set: $85.00

Ancient world 1191Shenute, Saint, approximately 360-450. Sinuthii archimandritae. Vita et opera omnia. III. Interpretatus est H. Wiesmann. (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ; v. 96: Scriptores Coptici ; t. 8.). Louvain: Secretariat du CorpusSCO, 1965, 162p, indexes. Paperback, very good copy, very minor waterstaining on spine. Pages still uncut. Photographic reprint of Paris, 1931 edition. $35.00
Shenute, also spelled Shenoute, Shenoud, Shenoudi, or Schenoudi (born c. 360—died c. 450), was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic Church.

Byzantium hhtb Hennephof, Hermann, editor. Textus byzantinos ad Iconomachiam pertinentes: .[Theophanes. Theophanes continuatus. Hagiographical testimonies.] In usum academicum edidit Herman Hennephof. (Series: Byzantina neerlandica. Series: A. Textus. Fasc. 1). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969, 91 pages. Paperback, pages. Signature of scholar on front free endpaper. Fine, like new copy. $30.00

Middle Ages 107cjk Capgrave, John, 1393-1464.The life of Saint Katherine. Edited by Karen A. Winstead.Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, x, 320 pages, notes, glossary. Paperbound. Fine copy. Friendly presentation copy from the editor on the front free endpaper to another medievalist thanking her for herhelp. $20.00 Box A 107
Catherine of Alexandria, or Katherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲕⲁⲧⲧⲣⲓⲛ; Greek: ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς "Holy Catherine the Great Martyr"; Arabic: سانت كاترين; Latin: Catharina Alexandrina), is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around the age of 14, converted hundreds of… Read More

Ancient World 1050Mena, of Nikiou. The life of Isaac of Alexandria; & the martyrdom of Saint Macrobius. Introduced, translated, and annotated by David N. Bell. (Series Title: Cistercian studies series, 107). Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1988, vii, 147p, notes, bib, maps. Paperback. Signature of previous owner of flyleaf. Fine copy. This is a translation of Phbios mpiništi mpipatriaches ethouab ouah piarcheepiskopos nte tinisti mpolis Rakoti abba Isaak, edited by E. Porcher, Patrologia Orientalis, 913 (Paris, 1915). $15.00
The Egypt of Mena, bishop of Nikiou, was a country under relatively tolerant Muslim administration, with a long history of conquest and reconquest, and a deep antipathy to the Byzantine Empire and Melkite ('imperial') ecclesiastics. Staunchly monophysite, deeply devoted to the patriarchs of Alexandria, and determinedly opposed to the Council of Chalcedon (451) and all that it represented, the Christians of Egypt continued their witness and their worship all but hidden from… Read More

Ancient world 1153Saller, Sylvester John, 1895- and Bellarmino Bagatti. The town of Nebo (Khirbet el-Mekhayyat). With a brief survey of other ancient Christian monuments in Transjordan. (Publications of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, no. 7). Jerusalem: Printed by Franciscan Press, 1949, xiv, 302p, bib, index, illus., plates. maps (part fold.) diagrams. Bound in sturdy blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Page block is very good, it has toned a bit over the years, noticeable when next to the plate section, which is still a bright white paper. Signed by both authors on the half-title page. Clean, tight, copy. $20.00