Tertullianus (Quintus Septimus Florentius) Opera, edited by Beatus Rhenanus, woodcut printer's device to title and final f. verso, woodcut initials, occasional faint spots and damp-stains, tiny scattered wormholes (partial loss of letters only, no loss to meaning of text), contemporary wooden boards, lacking leather, upper board split in two with more significant worming along split, elsewhere small scattered holes, medieval MS as binders waste at spine, [VD16 T560], folio, Basel, heirs of Johann Froben, 1528.

⁂ Beatus Rhenanus was a notable German humanist, active in Basel as an associate of scholar-printer Johann Froben. He compiled editions of multiple classical authors and early Church Fathers, with his editio princeps of Tertullian published in 1521. He was renowned for using recently discovered Rhineland manuscripts where possible, and his devotion to saving ancient wisdom by his editorial effort is showcased in the phrase chosen to appear on his Tertullian title (as here), "Opera è tenebris eruta atque à situ pro virili vindicata" [works brought forth from the darkness and valiantly defended from decay].