SOTTO MAYOR, Frei Luís de, O.P.- CANTICI CANTICORVM | SALOMONIS INTERPRETATIO.- Vlysippone: Apvd Petrvm Crasbeeck ...

SOTTO MAYOR, Frei Luís de, O.P.- CANTICI CANTICORVM | SALOMONIS INTERPRETATIO.- Vlysippone: Apvd Petrvm Crasbeeck, 1599-1601.- 2 vols.: 1 portada gravada; 29 cm.- E., Fr. Luís de Sotto Mayor (1526-1610), Dominican religious, born in Lisbon, joined the order in 1543 and completed his studies at the University of Leuven, in Flanders; A notable preacher, mastering Latin and Greek, he participated in the third session of the Council of Trent and was cousin professor of Sacred Scripture at the University of Coimbra for over 20 years. His commentaries on King Solomon's “Song of Songs” reveal themselves as a vast repository of classical, humanistic, patristic and rabbinical culture, including quotations from Saint Bernard, Origen, Saint Gregory, Saint Jerome, etc.; among the Greco-Latin classics we find Homer, Plutarch, Euripides, Plato, Aristophanes, Virgil, Juvenal, Horatio, Ovid, Cicero and many others. The work, a large publishing and printing company, was subsidized by the University of Coimbra and took several years to be produced, due to financial difficulties. The edition, published in a single volume, but here bound in two, has the following collation: [6, 2 br.], 64, 1 - 723, [1 br.] p.; 725 to 1319, [1], 152, [3, 1 br.] p.: 1 engraved title. Copy slightly cropped and with some foxing. Allegorical title copperplate engraved, cropped, without prejudice to the image, with two circular stamps with the initials CVPF, which are repeated on the front of the sheet AA1 (p. 725); occasional slight stains. Contemporary bindings, full flexible parchment, keeping the original endpapers, with the four ties missing. Barbosa Machado, III, p. 141/144. Anselmo, 525. Palau, 320535. BN (16th century), 859. D. Manuel II Library, 507. Arouca, S 492.