Cornelius á Lapide

CORNELIUS Á LAPIDE (Bocholt, Belgium, 1567 -1637).
"Commentaria in Ieremiam prophetam, Threnos et Baruch".
Printer: Martin Nutius. Antwerp, 1634.
Presents moisture stains, damage caused by xylophages, annotations and parchment covers.
Measurements: 35.5 x 22 x 6 cm.
Cornelius Cornelius à Lapide was a Jesuit Catholic priest and exegete of Sacred Scripture. He studied humanities and philosophy at the Jesuit colleges of Maastricht and Cologne, first theology for half a year at the University of Douai and then for four years at the Ancient University of Louvain. After teaching philosophy for half a year, he was appointed professor of Sacred Scripture at Louvain in 1596 and professor of Hebrew in 1597. In 1616, Lapide was called to Rome, where he died. Cornelius a Lapide wrote commentaries on all the books of the Catholic canon of Scripture, that is, including the deuterocanonical books, except the Book of Job and the Psalms. The commentaries on the Major and Minor Prophets, the Acts of the Apostles, the Canonical Epistles and the Apocalypse of St. John, the Wisdom of Ecclesiasticus and the Book of Proverbs were later. The rest were published posthumously, and all of them have been republished several times separately and as a whole.