Author: IRENAEUS (c. 130-c. 200).
Title: {Tou en agiois patros emon Eirenaiou.} Sancti Irenaei Episcopis lugdunesis et martyris, detectionis et e versionis falso cognominatae agnitionis, seu contra haereses libri quinque. Post Francisci Feuardentii et Joannis Ernesti Grabe recensionem... Studio et labore Domni Renati Massuet.
Description: Paris, Typis & sumptibus Joannis Baptistae Coignard, 1710, Cont. leather, raised bands, titlepage with engr. vignette, CLXXVIII, engr. plate (Prospectus Systematis Valentinianorum), 440, 222 pp. engr. vignettes and capital ornamental vignettes. Folio. Some brownings. Greek and Latin edition. In good condition. * Major work of Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon. In this Adversus Omnes Haereses he attacked gnosticism, especially the system of Valentinus and the millenarianism popular in Montanist circles (Cross, Oxford Dict.)

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