Ff.1.07
Irenaeus Saint, Bishop of Lyon.
[Adversus haereses. Latin & Greek. 1702.]
Tou en hagiois patros hemon Eirenaiou episkopou Lougdounou elenchou kai anatropes tes pseudonymou gnoseos biblia pente. S. Irenæi episcopi Lugdunensis Contra omnes hæreses libri quinque. Textus Græci partem haud exiguam restituit; Latinam versionem antiquissimam è quatuor MSS codicibus emendavit; fragmenta aliorum tractatuum deperditorum subjunxit; omnia notis variorum, & suis illustravit Joannes Ernestus Grabe..
Portion of title: Contra omnes haereses libri quinque
Parallel title: S. Irenaei episcopi Lugdunensis Contra omnes haereses libri quinque
Oxoniae, : E Theatro Sheldoniano, impensis Thomae Bennet, ad insigne Lunae Falcatae in Coemeterio S. Pauli Londini,, Anno Domini, MDCCII. [1702]
[12], XX, 113, [3], 113-283, 300-385, 390-472, [52]; 31, [1] p. : ill. (engr. frontis.) ; 41 cm. (fol.)
The first sixteen words of the title are transliterated from the Greek.
Text and register continuous despite pagination.
Signatures: pi⁶ a-e² A-K² L-S⁴ T⁶ V-Z⁴ Aa-Tt⁴ Uu-Zz² Aaa-Hhh⁴ Iii² Kkk-Sss⁴ Ttt-Zzz², ²Zzz² Aaaa-Gggg² *A-*H²
The first leaf has a frontispiece (signed MBurg. sculp.) on the verso, with the imprint "Impensis Thomae Bennet Bibliopolae in Coemeterio, D. Pauli, Londini 1702".
A variant has the words "Place this leaf last in the Book." at the foot of the proposal leaf (sig. 4G2) under a rule.
With indexes, glossaries and a leaf of proposals followed by "Joannis Croii specimen conjecturarum et observationum, in quædam loca Origenis, Irenæi, ..." with separate pagination and register.
ESTC, T139640
Ms. inscription on front pastedown recording donation by Thomas Horne, fellow, dated 1713.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
18th-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled and mottled brown calf binding; five raised bands; ?red morocco spine-label.
Ms. annotation in same hand as donation inscription on front free-endpaper.
Previously Al.1.05.
Tradition (Theology) Early works to 1800.
Authority Religious aspects Early works to 1800.
Christian heretics Early works to 1800.
Christian heresies Early church, ca. 30-600.
Croy, Jean de, ? - -1659 commentator.
Bennet, Thomas, ? - d. 1706 publisher.
Burghers, M. illustrator.
Horne, Thomas, 1610 - 1654 former owner.
Sheldonian Theatre printer.
England London.
England Oxford.
B32305