12mo. [12], 274pp, [2]. The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark 'A' to recto; the second leaf is blank. With a terminal errata leaf. Title in red and black. Later blind-tooled calf, recently neatly rebacked, all edges green. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. Early inscription of Samuel Thomas to head of title page.

An early seventeenth century revised edition of the Commonitoria, a fifth century heresiography by Vincent of Lérins (d. c. 445), Gallo-Roman saint and theologian.

Vincent published the Commonitoria, under the pseudonym of Peregrinus, approximately four years after the Council of Ephesus in an attempt to reply to contemporary heresies and establish a convention for orthodoxy. A leading arbitrator for the Semi-Pelagians - devotees of ascetic practices - Vincent alludes to the nontraditional teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, positioning the Commonitoria as an indirect attack on the theologian.