Divi Gregorii Papae Omnia Opera – Gregory I – 1542 | Huge Folio Edition in Latin

The 1542 Divi Gregorii Opera Guillard edition contains the full Latin works of Pope Gregory I, also known as Gregory the Great, issued in two huge folio volumes by Carolae Guillard in Paris. This edition was produced using earlier manuscript exemplars and adjusted against previous printed texts. The printed title announces an expanded subject index and a separate index of biblical references that had not been integrated into earlier printings.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Divi Gregorii Papae, huius nominis primi, cognomento Magni, Omnia quae extant, opera: nunc recens ad fidem veterum exemplartiorum…
• Author(s): Gregory I (Pope Gregory the Great)
• Publisher: Parisiis, Carolae Guillard
• Edition: First Guillard Edition, 1542.
• Format: Folio, 2 volumes
• Binding: Original full leather, six raised bands
• Size: 15.75 x 10.75 in (40 x 27.5 cm)
• Collation: Vol I: [148], 214 leaves; Vol II: 327 leaves
• Contents Include:
  • Pastoralis (manual for clerical office)
  • Homilies
  • Epistles (Epistolarum)
  • Commentaries on Liber Regum (Kings) and Liber Iob (Job)

Condition:

Both volumes are bound in original leather with six raised bands to each spine. The bindings are intact with visible surface wear. The spines are worn but gilt titling remains. Boards remain attached and stable. Edges show age-appropriate wear. Internally, the paper is complete and generally clean, with scattered foxing and some darkening to early leaves. Margins are generous. There are no missing gatherings. Paper is thick and shows the typical characteristics of mid-16th-century Parisian printing.

Why Collect This?

• Complete 16^th-century huge folios
• First known Guillard edition of Gregory I’s complete works

• Valuable to collectors of Latin theology, early Paris printing, or pre-Tridentine ecclesiastical texts