Item 2 - Commentaria in omnes D. Pauli Epistolas

[12], 1098, [52] pp, (fol.); Errata: p. [1149]. Includes indexes; 36.5 cm x 25 cm

Date: 1614
Author: Fr. Cornelius a Lapide SJ (1567-1637)
Publisher: [Antverpiae (Antwerp), Apud heredes Martini Nutij & Ioannem Meursium, 1614]
Full title: 'Commentaria in omnes Divi Pauli Epistolas'
Possibly part of series: v. 1: Ad Romanos et I. ad Corinthios; v. 2: II. Ad Corinthios, ad Galatas, ad Ephesios, ad Philippenses, ad Colossenses et I. et II. ad Thessalonicenses; v. 3: I. et II. ad Timotheum, ad Titum, ad Philemonem et ad Hebraeos.

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Bound in near-contemporary covers. Text covering has disintegrated. The text block is exposed. The covers are partially detached. Many of the pages are frayed and torn. There is some evidence that membranes (with manuscript text) were used to rebind the volume at some point.

Manuscript annotation on fly reads: ‘Fra. Barnewall, 1708’. This name is repeated twice. Annotation on final pages reads: ‘Anno Domini 1707’. Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. in his memoranda on library books in Kilkenny Friary (CA KK/9/3) queries whether this is ‘Fr. Barnaby Barnewall OSFC or another?’

Lapide studied at Jesuit colleges in Maastricht, Cologne, Douai, and, ultimately, for four years in Louvain. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1592 and was ordained in 1595. From 1596 to 1615, he served as Professor of Scripture and Hebrew at the Catholic University of Louvain. In 1616 he was called to Rome to serve in the same capacity at the Jesuit-run Gregorian University until his death in 1637. He was a prodigious biblical commentator, producing prolix volumes on every biblical book with the exception of Job and Psalms. His first published commentaries were on Paul’s Epistles (1614) and the Pentateuch (1616), both published in Antwerp before his transfer to Rome.