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Sorbonicis habuit … Secunda editio ab auctore recognita.
Parisiis, apud Joan. Bart. Garnier …,
1749. Pages xxxvii, (3), 656:
xiii, (3), 656, 2 vols, 8vo, later half calf, fully gilt spines, with
black and green contrasting labels, gilt: some light internal
staining, still a neat, attractive set.
Tournély’s writings are still so important in extent and value that he
may be regarded as on of the most notable theologians of his age. The
learned Lafiteau, Bishop of Sisteron, declared him “one of the greatest
men who has ever been in the Sorbonne”, and his works were highly
esteemed by St. Alphonsus Liguori. His chief merits are clearness of
explanation, elegance of style, deep learning and orthodoxy; his one
defect was Gallicanism (Cath. Ency.).
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NICOLAS DE HANNAPES, Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Exempla Biblica in materias morales distributa, nunc in
ordinem alphabeticum redacta, & novis aliquot titulis aucta …
Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]. Apud Mathiam Wolff …,
1727.
Pages (8), 367, (5), 4to, contemporary vellum-backed marbled
boards: with a small oval stamp on ttitle-page and a neat
ownership inscription dated 1731, light foxing in places, but
otherwise a very good copy.
A scarce edition (COPAC has only a defective copy in Bodleian) of this
highly successful collection of Bible texts and passages arranged by
moral topics. An English translation, `Examples of Vertue and Vice’,
was published in 1561.
(4)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
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BIBLE, N. T., ARABIC.
Arabic: Kitab al-Injil al-sharif …
[Book of the Liturgical Gospels].
[Shuwair, Dair al Yuhanna,
Monastery of St John the Baptist]
(1818)
SECOND EDITION OF THIS VERSION, printed in Arabic
throughout in red and black, the title within a border of
typographic ornament, with woodcut and typographic
ornaments throughout, pages (4), (316), folio, original Lebanese
red goatskin, blind-stamped bordered sides with gilt centre
ornaments forming a cross, unlettered spine, yellow edges lightly
sprink led in red, with two silk markers: in crisp state
throughout, the attractive binding in nice state with only very
small areas of abrasion on the lower cover: a handsome copy.
An edition not in Darlow & Moule. The first (1776) and third (1861)
editions have portraits of the Evangelists - but this present copy of the
second edition bears no evidence any were ever bound in, nor are they
mentioned in the descriptions of the two other copies we have been able
to trace (Houghton Library and Leiden University). “This second
edition has been completed by order of the Church authorities, in the
Monastery of St. John the Baptist known as Al-Shuwayr in the
Kisrawan mountains, through the labour of the monks of the rule of
St. Basil of the Melkite denomination, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen AD. “ - introduction, page (iv), translation
courtesy of G. J. Roper.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
574
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BIBLE, NT, GREEK,1763.
… (Greek) Novum
Testamentum. Juxta exemplar Millianum. Typis Joannis
Baskerville.
Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano. Sumptibus
academiae,
1763
Pages (4), 415, (1, blank), complete with the half-title, large 4to,
contemporary calf, gilt, gilt ruled and lettered spine: the spine
and joints strengthened with cloth: a large (23 by 28. 5 cms) and
very good copy: with the small, neat signature “Tho. Sutton /
1795” on the title-page and a small stamp of his name and crest
on the half-title.
Gaskell Add. 1. Darlow & Moule 4755. Baskerville supplied a fount of
Great Primer Greek, with which the University produced a Testament
in 4to and 8vo. The type was not generally liked and was only once
again used. The text is based on that of Mill’s edition, Oxford, 1707.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
575
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BIBLE, NT, GREEK, PARIS, 1642.
(Greek character) …
(Variae lectiones in Novo Testamento …)
(Greek character: Paris:
Imprimerie Royale)
(1642)
Printed almost entirely in Greek throughout, with engraved title-
page and attractive large head and tail-pieces, etc., pages (4),
453, (1), (2, blank), with the half-title, folio, contemp-orary calf,
with ducal crest in gilt on both boards, neatly and recently
rebacked, and the corners repaired, retaining the original
backstrip, a large, unpressed copy, with some edges uncut, neat
signature of T. J. Mathias, Trin: Coll: Camb (wrier and satirist,
author of The Pursuits of Literature) on the extreme upper
outer blank margin of title-page, a crowned armorial bookplate
(“si deus pro nobis quis contra nos”) and the further armorial
bookplate of Wm. Wrixon Leycester of Ennismore, Co Cork: a
large and very good to nice copy.
Darlow & Mouule 4687. The text is a reprint of the 1624 Elzevier NT,
which in turn was based on Beze’s 1565 edition. It was one of the early
productions of the recently founded (1640) Royal Printing Office under
the directorship of Sebastien Cramoisy. “This magnificent edition …
compiled at the solicitation of Cardinal Mazarin … is a work which,
along with the Juvenal, Horace and Virgil from the same press, ranks
among splendid rather than critical productions. ” – Dibdin.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
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BIBLE, O. T. GENESIS, POLYGLOT, 1702: Otho
(George),
ed.
Palaestra linguarum orientalium, hoc est, Quatuor
primorum capitum Geneseos, I. textus originalis tam ex
Judaeorum quàm Samaritanorum traditionibus, II. Targumim
seu paraphrases Orientales praecipuae, nempe I. Chaldaicae,
(Onkelosi, Jonathanis et Hierosolymitana) II. Syriaca, III.
Samaritana, IV. Arabica, V. Aethiopica, VI. Persica: omnia cum
versione Latinâ, ex Bibliis polyglottis Anglicanis maximam
partem desumta & eo fine seorsum edita, ut & linguarum
studiosi habeant, in quibus sese exerceant, et alii praestantiam
ac utilitatem harum paraphrasium hinc tanquam ex ungue
leonem perspicuè cognoscant. Curâ Georgii Othonis... accedit
brevis ejusdem de scopo & usu hujus opusculi praefatio, &
qualecunque specimen; et omnium quae in IV. his capitibus
earumque paraphrasibus occurrunt vocum index alphabeticus,
qui lexici vicem supplere queat.
Frankfurti ab Moenum, Impensis
Friderici Knochii. Typis Martini Jacqueti,
1702
FIRST EDITION, pp (18), 140; 147, (3), 2 parts in 1 vol, 4to,
contemporary vellum-backed boards: binding worn and shaken
and with hairline worming in the inner margin affecting text
only slightly on some twenty leaves, with 19C inscription on
endpaper “Ex Libris / Roberti Travers, A. M., M. B. / e Coll. T.
Trinitatis / Dublin. “: a clean and very good copy.
The text, largely derived from Walton’s Polyglot (1655-57), covers the
first four chapters of Genesis, and is typographically interesting for its
use of exotic types for the eight oriental scripts it uses for the Arabic,
Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Samaritan Aramaic, Ethiopic, Syriac and
Persian versions of Genesis I-IV compared with the Latin version of
Arias Montano. Includes preface, index and a glossary by Othone.
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
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BIBLE, O. T. PSALMS, LATIN/HEBREW, 1666:
Leusden (Johannes).
… [Hebrew = Sefer tehilim] Liber
Psalmorum editus a Johanne Leusden.
Amstelodami, typis &
sumptibus Josephi Athias,
1666
In Hebrew & Latin on facing pages, pp 6, leaves 2- 132, 132(bis)-
136, 138-155, 157-240, pp (6), complete thus, though bound
without half-title, 12mo, old calf, gilt lettered spine: spine and
headband worn, binding strong, a very good copy with the
armorial bookplate of W. H. Gregory on front endpaper and of
Richard Gregory, both of Coole Park, on rear endpaper.
Leusden (1624-99), Dutch oriental scholar, professor of Hebrew at
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