Author: RUINART Theodore :
Title: Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta Exlibris cum editis, tum manu scriptis collecta, eruta vel emendata...Opera & studio Domini T. Ruinart Presbytere & Monachi Benedictini è Congregatione Sancti Mauri. His praemittitur Praefatio Generalis, in qua resellitur Dissertatio XI Cyprianica Henrici Dodwelli de paucitate Martyrum.
Description: .: 10. Parisiis (Paris), Excudebat Franciscus Muguet, 1689, in-4°, title with copper-engraved vignette + (6) + lxxiv + (10) + 710 pp + (21)(index) + (1)(bl). Contemporary full calf, raised gilt back, some expertly restorations at the extremities. With the manuscript ex-libris in the upper margin of the title; ''Ex libris Monastii S(anc)ti Mauritii de Belloloco Ord. Sti Bened. Congreg. ... 1693'', modern ex-library stamp on verso title. This is the first scientific text edition of the lives of the early Roman Catholic martyrs. Many entries contain also the Greek transciption of the original text, printed in two colums, next to the Latin translation. This is the first edition, compiled by the French Benedictine monk Theodore Ruinart.. .

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