Lactantius, First Edition (32 results)

19,5 x 13 cm. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. XX, 287 Seiten Ganzer Titel: Von den Todesarten der Verfolger; Vom Zorne Gottes; Auszug aus den göttlichen Unterweisungen. - Innen sauberer, guter Zustand, randgebräunt. Seitenschnitt mit wenigen Fleckchen. Halbpergamenteinband, mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. Gebräunt, leicht fleckig. Kanten etwas berieben. Nur leichtere Lagerspuren. - Bibliothek der Kirchenväter. Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt. B15-02-03Z|A21 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 520.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dustwrapper lightly foxed but unclipped. Dustwrapper protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xiv, 175pp. No ownership marks.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Following the publication of the epitome ('short version') of the Diuinae Institutiones ('Divine instructions') in the BT in 1994, and a translation of this epitome in 2001, work has now begun on an edition of main work, the 'Diuinae Institutiones', to be published in 4 fascicles. Fascicle 1 contains the praefatio for the whole work. Following the publication of the epitome ('short version') of the Diuinae Institutiones ('Divine instructions') in the BT in 1994, and a translation of this epitome in 2001, work has now begun on an edition of main work, the 'Diuinae Institutiones', to be published in 4 fascicles. Fascicle 1 contains the praefatio for the whole work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

1. Auflage. XXIV, 100 S. -EINLEITUNG DEUTSCH; TEXT LATEINISCH-DEUTSCH PARALLEL- 0 Gewicht in Gramm: 350 Gr.-8°. Original-Leineneinband, Rücken verblaßt, Name und Jahr auf Vorsatz, insgesamt gutes Exemplar.

Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage;. XI, 276 S., XII, 311 S.; Neu gebunden. Zwei Teile in einem Band. 4 Seiten durch Kopie ersetzt. Seiten vereinzelt etwas fleckig, sonst gut. /lager2 0063 la Gewicht in Gramm: 600 gebunden, neuer Halblederband mit marmoriertem Deckelbezug, Lederecken,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Full leather suede binding. Externally clean. Binding firm. Lacking spine label. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with marginal age toning and the odd spot.Thomas Spark, born 1655, was a classical scholar and chaplain, notably delivering the first oration on Sir Thomas Bodley. Sparks was also a prolific author, with this work being a detailed work regarding the works of early Christian author Lactantius. Lactantius is credited as being an important advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, and was integral in shaping his religious policy. The work explores a number of his works including 'De Falsa Sapientia', a notable work regarding 'false wisdom'. Like many of Lactantius's contemporaries, the work is influenced by pagan and philosophical thought. 912 pages with 33 pages index.Text in latin.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Amsterdam: Printed for J.S., 1687. This edition of A Relation of the Death of the Primitive Persecutors presents an English translation by Gilbert Burnet of Lactantius's polemic against Roman imperial opposition to Christianity. The narrative outlines the deaths of emperors such as Nero, Diocletian, and others regarded as enemies of the early Church. Burnet's translation emerged in a Protestant context and aligns with late 17th-century religious polemics. The text was published in a sextodecimo format and bound in original leather. Condition: Very Good. Binding secure with minimal rubbing. Pages clean and complete. #29093. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. First edition. L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Opera, quĉ extant, omnia: Accedunt Carmina vulgò asscripta Lactantio. Cwm notis Antonii Thysii, published by Lugduni Batavorum Leffen, 1652. Presumed 1st Edition Thus. 670pp + indices. Steel engraved frontispiece and page headings. Internally Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate or inscription, pale easily erasable pencil underlining to prelims to pp16, note of editions handwritten in ink and dated 1715 to lower endpaper, no further marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges, remarkably free from foxing or browning. Beautifully bound in white vellum leather stitched to joints, French yapped to fore-edges and with handwritten author and date black ink; 'Lactanttius 1652'. Lusius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius 250-325, was born a Pagan, became an early Chrisian apologist, was declared Professor of Rhetoric by emperor Diocletian before resigning and living in poverty, was subsequently reinstated to high office as Latin tutor to the son of Crispus,the latter becoming Caesar and being put to death by his father Constantine. The volume in hand contains all surviving works, and is beautifully bound in vellum, the same used for the Magna Carta and all laws in England. Only one Vellum maker remains in the UK. An increasingly uncommon Edition, bound in an increasingly uncommon material, by an increasingly sought after author. His works were copied in manuscript several times in the 15th century and were first printed in 1465 by the Germans Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheim at the Abbey of Subiaco, the first book printed in Italy to have a date of printing. It was probably the fourth book ever printed in Italy. A copy of this 1465 edition was sold at auction in 2000 for more than $1 million.

Leinen. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. xx + 287 p. [BIBLIOTHEK DER KIRCHENVÄTER ; 36].

Condition: New. 2011. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Loss to top spine volume I Ante-Nicene Christian Library XXI 1886. Book.

gebunden, Orig.-Leinen; Condition: Sehr gut. XXIV, 103 S. ; gr. 8°; Rücken leicht aufgehellt, ExLibris auf Spiegel, sonst sehr guter Zustand. /altphilologie la Gewicht in Gramm: 600.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Early 18th century version of one of the works of the early Christian author. This is a scholarly publication with many footnotes; plus addenda, indices and a catalogue. Speckled calf leather boards which are a little frayed at the edges; especially the boards/spine joints (main image). Raised spine with gilt title towards the head; set against a (slightly faded) red background. Internally, the binding is firm. There is some quite marked tanning in places and, as is often the case with older books, this is more evident on the preliminary and final pages. Bookplate on front pastedown (image). Printed on laid-type paper. pp. 259 + Indices. 16mo. As far as we can ascertain - this is a first edition. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or would like some more photos. N.B. depending on destination we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Abe2237.

8°. Originalbroschur. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. XLVIII, 128 S. Eingeklebtes Exlibris auf Titelblatt mit handgeschriebenem Datum. Sonst gut. la Gewicht in Gramm: 220.

Gr.-8°, OLnbd. 1. Aufl. 103 S. Latein und Deutsch. Signatur, gestempelt, Einband etwas lichtrandig, sonst schönes Ex. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0.

Hardcover (Vellum). Condition: Near Fine Condition. First Edition. Early full parchment, gilt lettering piece, marbled page edges, light wear and discoloration to parchment. An attractive and well preserved binding. Some wear to endpapers, pencil notes to blank and pastedown, light soiling and staining to last few pages. Title page has been trimmed, neatly repaired and redacted - probably when rebound, apparently to remove ownership marks (but possibly a cancel). Scattered minor foxing. Ahmanson-Murphy 132. (16), 348 (with some pagination mistakes, 271 repeated twice, 274 once, 276 once, 278, 281, etc), 12 leaves, printer's mark serving as the title page for Tertullianus, (4), 48 leaves. The first Aldine edition of Lacantius' Divine Institutes along with a selection of Tertullian's apologetics. Lactantius was the first dated book printed in Italy (at the Subiaco commune by Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz). It is famous as the first sustained defense of Christianity against pagan attacks, for the quality of it's prose, Lactantius' shaky grasp of scripture, and a section mocking the idea of a round earth which was specifically mentioned by Copernicus in his introduction to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("For it is not unknown that Lactantius, the writer celebrated in other ways but very little in mathematics, spoke somewhat childishly of the shape of the earth when he derided those who declared the earth had the shape of a ball. So it ought not to surprise students if such should laugh at us also.") Provenance: armorial bookplate of Paui van de Woestijne "Gandavensis" (of Ghent). Nicola Perrarca (?) early signature to title. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 049717.

Two parts in one vol., folio, ff.VIII, 2ICLX, 3IXXII; roman type with some phrases in Greek, woodcut printer's device to title-page (signed 'BM'), white-on-black woodcut initials, A1 with large woodcut initial and headings printed in red; title-page somewhat soiled with marginal repair at foot, occasional light marginal staining, bifolium A4.5 detached with a few chips to edges, small rust-holes in inner margin of last few leaves, otherwise a very good, fresh copy; bound in late eighteenth-century Italian mottled calf-backed boards with mottled paper sides, spine ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco lettering-piece, front endleaf with watermark of three crescent moons, rear endleaf with watermark of a W surmounted by a hand holding a sabre (late eighteenthearly nineteenth century), sewn on 3 sunken cords; a little rubbed, spine chipped and defective at head and foot with a few small wormholes, sewing defective; late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century annotations to c.85pp. (sometimes shaved); inscription 'Joh. Franc. Presbyt. Bauchieri [] Theol. Dr.' to front flyleaf.A closely read copy of Lactantius's encyclopaedia of Christian apologetics, defending and explaining the Christian faith. Lactantius (c.250c.325), from north Africa, taught rhetoric at the imperial court in Nicomedia, where he witnessed the Christian persecutions of Diocletian. According to Jackson Bryce's online bibliography of Lactantius editions, this is probably the eighteenth printing of the works of Lactantius, following the first edition of 1465 (the first surviving book to be printed in Italy). This edition, however, contains more texts, including Lactantius's neo-Latin poem De ave phoenice about resurrection, John Chrysostom's De Coena Domini and Lorenzo Valla's sermon De mysterio Eucharistiae; the volume closes with Tertullian's Apologeticus adversus gentes which has separate foliation and its own colophon. The text was edited by Pierio Valeriano from Belluno (14771558), the nephew of the Greek scholar Urbano Bolzanio, through whom he became acquainted with Aldus Manutius. He studied in Padua and became increasingly interested in Egyptian hieroglyphics, and indeed the text of Lactantius includes much information about ancient Egypt. The annotations are concentrated on the sections of the Divine Institutes entitled 'De vera sapientia', 'De divino praemio' (elsewhere entitled 'De vita beata'), and chapter IX of 'De origine erroris'. Elsewhere there are a few marginal hash marks and single words, and some underlining of words and phrases. The annotator shows close engagement and understanding of the text, as well as giving his opinion; on D3vD4r he states that Lactantius has proved that materia prima was created by God, not the other way round. In the chapters on true wisdom (in which Lactantius states that philosophy is not wisdom) they cite many pagan authors, such as Pythagoras and Plato, Hermes Trismegistus and Cicero, whom Lactantius aimed to discredit (his aim was to demonstrate that before the recent history of polytheism, which began in Egypt, only one God was worshipped in the Mediterranean, which the annotator notes has been proved). The annotator also provides the sources of some of Lactantius's text, where not acknowledged by Lactantius himself; for example, on Q2v, he correctly identifies a reference to the first book of Ovid and some lines from Virgil's fourth Eclogue, and on Q3v mentions Aristippus. Along with Cyprian, Lactantius also believed that the end of the world was at hand; in 'De divino praemio' chapter XXV, the annotator has noted 'completo sexto millesimo anno, tunc erit finis mundi' (at the end of the sixth millennium, then it will be the end of the world), a common notion within the prolific genre of Apocalypse commentaries, frequently repeated with variants in the form. The annotator is writing a thousand years after that, thus revealing a predilection for the consciously metaphorical exegesis of millenialist statements. The annotator also complements Lactantius's notes on the Antichrist by referring to one of the numerous circulating interpretations of Daniel and Isaiah regarding his Syrian origins (Q3r). EDIT16 CNCE 34364; USTC 762283; Sander 375 8. Language: Latin.

Rilegato. Condition: molto buono. prima edizione. Basileae, Apud Andream Cratandrum, mense Februario, anno 1521. In-8° (21,6 cm x 13,7 cm). 2 c.b., XVIII, 433, (3), 2 c.b. Segnatura: a4, b6, c-z4, A-2I4, 2K6. Con tutte le sue carte bianche conservate, 2 all' inizio e due in fine. Solida legatura settecentesca in cartone marmorizzato con laccetti passanti, autore e titolo manoscritti sul dorso. Raffinato frontespizio inserito entro una ricca e complessa cornice rinascimentale impressa in xilografia, in un unico blocco, raffigurante Lucrezia e Giuditta di Hans Holbein il Giovane. Grande marca tipografica in xilografia alla c. 2Z6(v). Carattere corsivo, greco e romano. Numerose affascinanti glosse ed annotazioni manoscritte da mano cinquecentesca. Alcune deboli fioriture chiare al margine esterno di qualche pp., qualche normale segno del tempo, peraltro esemplare a pieni margine, con tutte le sue cc. bianche conservate, in stato di conservazione molto buono. Prima edizione di Cratander delle opere complete di Lattanzio, il "Cicerone cristiano" dallo stile fluente ed armonico del retore romano preferito dall' A. a modello latino per i suoi scritti apologetici verso la "religio nova". Le "Divinae Institutiones", in sette libri, sono un apologia del Cristianesimo, un rifiuto netto, tramite la confutazione dei loro errori, della filosofia pagana antica, della dottrina eroica e della mitologia, alle quali il nostro autore contrappone i capisaldi della dottrina cristiana cui è molto legato. L' opera sulla creazione di Dio, "De opificio Dei", è invece innervata dall' elogio della sapienza dispiegata da Dio nel creare l' uomo, la potenza divina si riflette propriamente nell' atto della creazione di quel microcosmo che è il corpo umano. Nel "De ira Dei" Lattanzio polemizza con gli Stoici e gli Epicurei, sostenitori dell' atarassia e dell' imperturbabilità degli dèi, affermando che Dio interviene nelle vicende umane, in bene o in male, specie per punire gli uomini che lo offendono. In particolare, Lattanzio si accanisce contro Epicuro e la sua convinzione del disinteresse divino per le umane vicende. Al front. appare per la prima volta, usata fino al 1523, la celebre incisione xilografica raffigurante "Lucrezia e Giuditta" opera di Hans Holbein il Giovane, questa è la probabile terza variante della cornice nell' arco di sei mesi. Da quest' opera la raffigurazione principale del bordo ora appare nei suoi pannelli laterali non più al centro. Dopo numerose edizioni in Italia (prima a Subbiaco nel 1465), poi a Rostock e Parigi, Cratander è il primo a Basilea a stampare le opere sopravvissute, tra cui la sua opera principale, l' Esposizione completa della fede cristiana in latino del Padre della Chiesa nordafricano Lattanzio. Nella sua prefazione, Cratander contrappone le opere del suo autore, che il Padre della Chiesa Girolamo definì giustamente un fiume di eloquenza tulliana, con la verbosità vuota, le sottigliezze sofisticate e le indagini spinose dei dottori scolastici del suo tempo. Bibliografia: Adams, L-18; Göllner, 47; Graesse, p. 66; Panzer, VI, 52; USTC, 671383; VD 16, L 28. Cfr. Kommer-Emmendörfer, "Hans Holbein d.J. (1497/98-1543) Ausstellung zum 500. Geburtstag des Künstlers", p. 71.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A precisely dated manuscript copy almost certainly derived from the 1465 editio princeps, preserving rare evidence for the transition from manuscript to print Italy (probably Genoa), 31 August 1472 Manuscript on paper, with vellum in binding, 285 × 205 mm, 112 leaves, complete, written in two columns of 47 lines in a fine humanistic hand with influence of secretarial script, ruled in black ink within single bounding lines. Rubrics in red, two-line initials in red, purple, or blue with contrasting penwork; larger initials in red and blue; and several very large initials, 8 to 10 lines high, with elaborate scrolling geometric penwork infill and floral terminations extending into the margins. Spaces left for a number of Greek quotations. Bound in 18th- or early 19th-century vellum over thin paper boards. Contents ff. 1r-92v: Divinae institutiones adversus gentes, opening: Incipit liber Lactantii Firmiani de divinis institutionibus adversus gentes? Magno et? ff. 92v-102r: De ira Dei ad Donatum, opening: Animadverti saepe? ff. 102r-111r: De opificio Dei vel formatione hominis, opening: Quam minime? f. 111r: Colophon: Lactantii Firmiani de divinis institutionibus adversus gentes libri septem: necnon eiusdem ad Donatum de ira dei liber unus, uni cum libro de opificio hominis ad Demeterianum foeliciter finiuntur. Sub anno domini M.CCCCLXXII Indictione quinta die ul vero ultima mensis Augusti. Deo Gratias. Provenance At the foot of f. 1r a near-contemporary Dominican ownership inscription: "Hic liber est conventus rabiensis ordinis predicatorum." Later shelfmark "E" in brown ink on f. 1r, probably 19th century. A manuscript at the hinge-point between scribal and printed culture This is an unusually revealing and intellectually attractive late humanist manuscript of Lactantius, copied at a moment when the authority of the manuscript book had not yet yielded fully to print. Although written in 1472, seven years after the appearance of the 1465 Sweynheym and Pannartz edition at Subiaco ? the first dated book printed in Italy and the editio princeps of Lactantius ? the present codex is not merely a late manuscript witness to a classical text, but rather a rare and early document of how printed texts were themselves re-transmitted in manuscript form. The evidence for dependence on the 1465 edition is especially striking. Most notably, the colophon appears to be consciously adapted from that of the Sweynheym and Pannartz printing, with the date altered to 1472, suggesting that the manuscript was copied directly or indirectly from that printed exemplar or from a closely related descendant. This feature alone gives the manuscript unusual bibliographical interest, for it preserves the moment at which the language and authority of print are absorbed back into the conventions of scribal production. That relationship becomes even more compelling in the treatment of the Greek quotations. As in the earliest printed Lactantius tradition, the Greek text is here not fully resolved: spaces are left for a number of Greek passages, but these remain unfilled. This is highly significant. The handling of Greek in Lactantius ? both in manuscript and in print ? remains an understudied aspect of the text's transmission, and this codex belongs to a small and revealing group of late medieval and early Renaissance witnesses that expose the uncertainty surrounding the copying, availability, and authority of Greek passages in a primarily Latin scholarly environment. The point is of real historical interest. The 1465 Subiaco edition famously handled the Greek inconsistently, leaving blank spaces where suitable type or exemplar readings were lacking, while later editions, such as the 1468 Roman printing, offered a fuller Greek text. The present manuscript appears to stand precisely within that transitional zone: a scribal book produced in the first decade after the editio princeps, yet still bearing the textual scars of the earliest printed state.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1570 Lactantius 1ed Divine Institutes Apologetics Pagan FLAT EARTH Antwerp Lactantius was a 3rd-century early Christian author who is remembered primarily for his work 'Institutionum Divinae', an important treatise written to defend Christian truths against pagans. Not only was the content important to Christian apologists, the style in which it was written gives a proper example of 4th-century Christian thought. While this work appears to be just a Christian apology, it also includes elements of civil law, including Lactantius's condemning the round earth theory, a view that Copernicus would refute in his 16th-century works. This 1570 edition is considerably rare! Item number: #27885 Price: $795 LACTANTIUS L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Diuinarum institutionum libri septem Antverpiae: Apud Viduam & haeredes Ioannis Stelsii, 1570. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages o 756, [58] References: edition not in USTC Provenance: Binding stamp AHV, 1588 Language: Latin Binding: Vellum; tight and secure Size: ~7in X 4.5in (17.5cm x 11.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! Photos available upon request.

Gr.-8°. Originalleineneinband. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. XXV, 104 S. 1 kl. Stempel auf Rücks. des Titelblatts. Rücken mit Läsuren und Lichtrand. la Gewicht in Gramm: 330.

270 Seiten mit 2 Zeittafeln, 1 Diagramm und 1 s/w Karte. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. Sprache: Deutsch Original-Leinenband mit Schutzumschlag.

Rilegato. Condition: ottimo. prima edizione. [ 500 Aldina prima edizione] (cm. 16,7) Ottima e solida piena pergamena originale, con unghie del XX secolo, titolo calligrafato al dorso-- cc. 16 nn. , cc. 348, cc. 12 nn. ; cc.4 nn., cc. 48. Ancora Aldina al frontis(Flecher 3) e (Flecher 5) al secondo frontis e al verso dell' ultima carta. Prima edizione aldian sia delle opere di Lattanzio che dell'Apologeticum di Tertulliano. Lattanzio nato verso il 250 fu denominato il "Cicerone cristiano" da Pico della Mirandola. Giovan battista Egnazio curò l'edizione e dopo la morte del Manuzio, assunse il ruolo di responsdabile scientifico al fianco di Andrea Sodano. Questa edizione emendata dall'Egnazio dai vari erroei dell'edizione curata dal Parrasio nel 1509 divenne la fonte delle edizioni successive: Cratander (Basilea 1521), Jean petit (Paris 1525, J. Graphaeus (Anversa 1532). L'Apologeticon di Tertulliano ha frontis, registro e colophon propri tanto che renouard ne ipotizza l'autonomia editoriale dal lattanzio. La seconda edizione apparve nel 1535. Bell'esemplare nitido e marginoso alcune note coeve ai margini, in alto all'ultima carta una nota manoscritta in 4 righi datata 1665 e firmata Domenico Angelino. Restauro di pochi millimetri all'angolino della prima e ultima carta, Qualche lieve macchiolina e antiche sottolineature. Provenienza: Asta Sotheby's Firenze 1990. * Renouard 70/2; *Choix 4728; *Brunet III 736; *Ebert 11601, * Firmin - Didot p. 399 * "G.F. D' Asola" n° 3; * Bm. Stc.Italian 366; * Adams L 16; * Ucla 132.[f82].

Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. XI, 276 S. / XII, 311 S. Bibliotheksexemplar. 2 Stempel auf Rücks. des Titelblatts. Namenszug auf Vorsatz. Einband beschabt. Rückenschild Lädiert. Innen gut! la Gewicht in Gramm: 480 Kl.-8°. Halbleinenband der Zeit mit Papierschild.

Condition: Gut. [8] Bl., 757 [i.e. 759] S., [14] Bl. Graesse IV, 67.; Ebert 11613; VD17 3:315989H; Die sehr gesuchte, erste von Christoph Cellarius besorgte Ausgabe, auf Grundlage von Thysius und mit Korrekturen aus Manuskripten undälteren Ausgaben. Titel in Rot u. schwarz gedruckt mit kelienm Ausschnitt, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar. Namensvermerk a.d. Innendeckel. la Gewicht in Gramm: 1500 Ganzpergamenteinband der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Rücken-Titel.

Condition: Very Good. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1684. First Edition. Thick octavo (21cm.); contemporary speckled paneled calf, spine in five compartments with brown gilt-lettered spine label, all edges stained red; [18],912,[2],38pp. (collated, presumed complete); engraved vignette on title page of the Sheldonian Theatre. Ex-library (institute unknown) with faint manuscript markings directly to spine and small rubber-stamp to front pastedown, leather a bit scuffed and dried along spine edges with brief cracking to upper joint, 18th-century ownership signatures of Ida Grey and Thomas de Grey to front free endpaper and title page, else a Very Good, mostly fresh and sound copy. One of just two scholarly works published in the lifetime of English theologian and scholar Thomas Spark (1655-1692). As a clergyman of the Church of England Spark was admitted to a prebend in the church of Rochester a few years before his untimely death: "He died on 7 Sept. 1692 at Bath, whither he had gone to drink the waters" (DNB). His contemporaries attributed his death to "his excesses and too much Agitation obtaining Spiritualities" (Wood, "Ath. Oxon."). The present work is a scholarly edition of the works of early Christian theologian Lactantius (ca. 240-320 CE). Thomas Hearne, contemporary of Spark's, deemed it "a poor Performance, the Text being very incorrect, and the Notes from MSS. very mean, he having taken no pains to collate them accurately." Overall a reassuring reminder that shoddy scholarship has been around for a long time and can endure for centuries after the scholar's demise. ESTC R014307; WING L-139; see also the DNB XVIII, p. 719, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

[Venetis, in aedibus Haeredum Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense martio], M.D.XXXV. [1535]. 17 x 11 cm, [16]-328-[10-2 bl.]-47-[1 bl.]-[44] ff. Relié, plein veau glacé, grand décor doré sur les plats, dos à 5 nerfs avec auteur, lieu et millésime orné de même, filet doré le long des coupes en cannelures sur les coiffes, doublures bordées du même cuir en papier marbré ainsi que les gardes. Reliure signée H. Beenkens & Fils (sur le dernier plat). Cette édition de 1535 inclut une nouvelle préface par Paulus Manutius qui s'ajoute à celle de Ioannes Baptista Egnatius (Giovanni Battista Egnazio) pour Tertullien, déjà présente dans la première édition aldine de 1515 (editio princeps 1465). Marque de l'imprimeur sur la page de titre et sur le dernier feuillet imprimé. Renouard valorise cette édition par rapport à celle de 1515 : "Très bonne édition, bien supérieure à celle de 1515 ; elle a été revue par Honoré Fascitello, sur plusieurs manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Blont-Cassin". Quelques faibles épidermures, très bon état intérieur excepté de petites restaurations de papier sur les deux derniers ff. impr., avec perte de 2 lettres à la table, et quelques traces occasionnelles. Mors fragilisé sur deux centimètres. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde I, p. 271 n° 2 - Greasse, IV, p. 66. Provenance : Bibliothèque Beenkens. Livres.

With fine woodcut title-border by Hans Holbein the Younger, and numerous woodcut initials. 10 unn. leaves, 433 num., 3 un. pp. Small 4to. Contemp. blind-stamped calf, 1 metal clasp (of 2). (Basel, A. Cratander, February 1521). First edition. A very fine and interesting copy published by Cratander in Basel of the collected works of Lactantius, "the Cristian Cicero." In this finely printed volume appears for the first time the famous woodcut border depicting "Lucretia and Judith" by Hans Holbein the Younger. The "De Divinis Institutionibus adversus gentes", written in A.D. 304-13, is considered his greatest work, a comprehensive survey of all the arguments then available in favour of the new religion. - With some old ms. inscriptions and sm. monastery library stamp on title. - VD 16 L 28; Adams L-18. CLASSICS ; ALTE DRUCKE ; RELIGION / THEOLOGY ;

1. Aufl. 785 S. + Index Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900 kl-8°, brauner restaurierter Ledereinband des 18. Jahrhunderts, guter und Innen sauberer Zust.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Following the publication of the epitome ('short version') of the Diuinae Institutiones ('Divine instructions') in the BT in 1994, and a translation of this epitome in 2001, work has now begun on an edition of main work, the 'Diuinae Institutiones', to be published in 4 fascicles. Fascicle 1 contains the praefatio for the whole work. Following the publication of the epitome ('short version') of the Diuinae Institutiones ('Divine instructions') in the BT in 1994, and a translation of this epitome in 2001, work has now begun on an edition of main work, the 'Diuinae Institutiones', to be published in 4 fascicles. Fascicle 1 contains the praefatio for the whole work. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.