Roberto Bellarmino - Explanatio in psalmos - 1611

2 volumes in 4to, full calf leather of the period, spine ornamented with raised bands, gilt fillets on the boards, red-edged pages, in two parts, continuous pagination. Beautiful engraved title page, 1088 pages plus a 26-page index
- A verse-by-verse commentary on the entire Book of Psalms, based on the text of the Vulgate and linked to the Douay-Rheims translation. Bellarmine provides there a spiritual, moral, and theological synthesis of the biblical poetry of the Old Testament.