1546 CYRIL of ALEXANDRIA WORKS antique 16th century FOLIO

Divi Cyrilli Archiepiscopi Alexandrini Operum omnium, quibus nunc praeter alia complura nova, recens accessere vndecim Libri in Genesim, nunquam antea in lucem aediti.

3 parts in 1 volume.


Cologne, Melchioris Nouesiani ; 1546

 [8], 333 (recte 334), [8], 303 lvs.

With 3 repeated title vignettes, coat of arms woodcut and numerous figurative woodcut initials. 


- VD16 C 6569. Not in Adams and Graesse. -

First Cologne print of the writings of Cyril I (c. 375/80-444), Patriarch of Alexandria.

- Contains:
-In Genesium, Lib. XI.
- In Leuiticum, Lib. XVI.
- In Euangelium Ioannis, Lib. XII.

- "His dogmatic works, sermons, and letters, are directed against Nestorius , whose teachings he fanatically opposed.
His reply to Emperor Julian's treatise against the Christians makes their partial restoration possible.

Later 3/4 vellum over marbled boards, new endpapers

First two leaves with corner repaired, faded dampstain to the lower right corner.

Period ownership inscription "Collegii Soc. Jesu Lovanii" (Leuven).


Folio. Size 8 1/4 by 12 3/4 inches


Text in Latin
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Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444) was the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444.
He was enthroned when the city was at the height of its influence and power within the Roman Empire.
Cyril wrote extensively and was a major player in the Christological controversies of the late-4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople. Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and also as a Doctor of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers. The Nestorian bishops at their synod at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a "monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church".

Cyril is well known for his dispute with Nestorius and his supporter, Patriarch John of Antioch, whom Cyril excluded from the Council of Ephesus for arriving late. He is also known for his expulsion of Novatians and Jews from Alexandria and for inflaming tensions that led to the murder of the Hellenistic philosopher Hypatia by a Christian mob. Historians disagree over the extent of his responsibility in this.

Cyril tried to oblige the pious Christian emperor Theodosius II (AD 408–450) to himself by dedicating his Paschal table to him.
Cyril's Paschal table was provided with a Metonic basic structure in the form of a 19-year lunar cycle adopted by him around AD 425, which was very different from the first Metonic 19-year lunar cycle invented around AD 260 by Anatolius, but exactly equal to the lunar cycle which had been introduced around AD 412 by Annianus; the Julian equivalent of this Alexandrian cycle adopted by Cyril and nowadays referred to as the "classical (Alexandrian) 19-year lunar cycle" would emerge a century later in Rome as the basic structure of Dionysius Exiguus’ Paschal table (AD 525).

The Catholic Church did not commemorate Saint Cyril in the Tridentine calendar: it added his feast only in 1882, assigning to it the date of 9 February. Yet the 1969 Catholic Calendar revision moved it to 27 June, considered to be the day of the saint's death, as celebrated by the Coptic Orthodox Church.[6] The same date has been chosen for the Lutheran calendar. The Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches celebrate his feast day on 9 June and also, together with Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, on 18 January. Cyril is remembered in the Church of England with a commemoration on 27 June.

Western Rite Orthodox Christians within the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, which is under the auspices of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, celebrate the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria on 28 January, which is when his Feast Day occurs in the Roman Martyrology.
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