BENSLY, R., HARRIS, J. & BURKITT, F. (TRANSCRIBERS),

The Four Gospels in Syriac.

. Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest. Introduced by .A.S.Lewis. Cambridge, 1894 (1st ed); large qto (11 x 9 in); xlviii, 318pp; bound in crisp, new cloth (title gilt); contents near-fine. [ DL 2/4 ].

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Catalogue: Classical Antiquity

Keywords: Theology Wim Meeuws Ancient Near East Transcriptions Religious Texts Ancient Languages Sinaitic Syriac

ALAND, KURT (ED.)

Die Katholischen Briefe 4 Volumes

. ( Text Und Textwerk Der Griechischen Handschriften Des Neuen Testaments I ) ([Arbeiten zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung er Wesfälischen Wilhelms-Universität volumes 9, 10, 1 and 10,2 and 11 ) Volume 1, Das Material; Volumes 2.1 and 2.2, Die Auswertung; Volume 3, Die Einzelhandschriften. In verbindung mit A.Benduhn-Merz & G.Mink. Heraugegen von Kurt Aland, De Gruyter, 1987; xviii, 430; xxiiv, 598; 118;734; xi, 412pp. volume 2.1 complete with 118pp near-fine paperback appendix inserted in back flap; with numerous tables; bound in publisher's grey cloth, lettered in gilt; base of one spine & two corners bumped, tiny spot on one rear board, otherwise the cloth is clean and very good, and the contents are in near-fine condition.[ DL 5/1].

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Keywords: Auctiongerman Weblists Theology German Bible Scholarship New Testament Bible Studies Katholiek Catolicism Katholisch Katholik

HYMN BOOK

Hamburgisches Gesangbuch Fuer Den Oeffentlichen Gottesdienst Und Die Haeusliche Andacht. Mit Eines Hochedlen Und Hochweisen Raths Special Privilegio. Zweite Auflage Im Verlage Des Amts Des Buchbinder.

. Hamburg, 1843, gedruckt bei Johann August Meißner. XII, 774, 17, 12pp. bound in full velvet with brass clasp, All edges gilt , finely embossed. Rear hinge partly split, but book block firmly attached. The last 12 pages contain. Gebete und Andachten in Beziehung auf das heilige Abendmahl.

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CURETON , W., [IGNATIUS, BISHOP OF ANTIOCH, SAINT, MARTYR, C.35-C.107. ]

Corpus Ignatianum: A Complete Collection of the Ignatian Epistles Genuine, Interpolated, and Spurious; Together with Numerous Extracts from Them, As Quoted By Ecclesiastical Writers Down to the Tenth Century; in Syriac, Greek, and Latin :

. an English translation of the Syriac text, copious notes, and introduction, by William Cureton. London, Francis and John Rivington, 1849, [4], xvii, lxxxvii, [2], 365, [2] pp.; double-page pl. of Syriac mss. drawn by Harrietta Cureton, lithographed in red & black; size 26 x 17 cm. text in Syriac, Greek, Latin and English. Robust and elegant full dark brown calf leather binding, with some mottled lighter patches and a few scuff marks; front and rear covers each blind-ruled with double lines to form one main central panel, narrower panels along all four sides, and four corner panels, each corner with blind stamped floral ornament; spine with title in gilt on red leather title label , four raised bands with blind stamped floral ornaments between them; the top 5 cm. of the spine has at some time been neatly repaired and strengthened, though the repair material now covers the place where a fifth raised band was originally positioned; lower part of spine has a former library shelfmark in small white numerals on black background ("2.81.3"); head and tail bands; lower rear hinge has a small split, pages edged in red; marbled end papers; pasted on to the front endpapers are bookplates of Thomas Hodgkin (1831-1913, a prominent Quaker and historian) and the Woodbrooke Library (a Quaker institution in Birmingham), with a label indicating that the Woodbrooke Library received the volume from the library of Dr. Hodgkin on 12 November 1913; apart from foxing of a few pages at the beginning and end of the book, and neat pencilled notes in the margins of about ten pages, the text is clean and unmarked. Very scarce. An important date in the Ignatian controversy was the year 1845, when Canon Cureton published a Syriac version of the epistles to St. Polycarp, the Ephesians, and the Romans. The three epistles contained in this version appear in a much shorter form than is found in the Greek text and Latin version. A fragment of the epistle to the Trallians is incorporated in the epistle to the Romans, but none of the other epistles appear in the collection. The text of Cureton's edition was based upon two MSS. in the British Museum. The former of these two MSS. dates from the sixth century. It was purchased by Archdeacon Tattam from the convent of St. Mary Deipara in the Nitrian desert in 1839. The second MS. dates from the seventh or eighth century, and was brought from Egypt by Archdeacon Tattam in 1842. Cureton maintained that these three epistles alone represented the genuine Ignatius, that the Vossian collection contained these three in an interpolated form, and that the remaining four letters of the Vossian collection were forgeries. This rekindled the controversy. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, declared the newly-discovered version to be an epitome of the genuine letters made by an Eutychian heretic. This led Cureton to a fuller treatment of the question. He had meanwhile discovered an additional MS. of the three epistles, brought, like the first-named, from the convent of St. Mary Deipara, and dating from at least the ninth century. He now published his great work Corpus Ignatianum (London, 1849), which contains a full treatment of the whole question. Cureton's view was supported by Bunsen and several eminent scholars. But it has failed to hold its ground. Apart from the fact that the seven letters of the Vossian collection were plainly known to Eusebius and Theodoret, they exhibit a perfect unity of authorship and style throughout. Cureton's theory requires us to suppose that the interpolator was able to reproduce in his additions to the letters the most subtle characteristics of language and grammar. A similar difficulty occurs when we examine the relation of Cureton's Syriac version to the Syriac version of the seven letters. The one is plainly derived from the other, and it is far more probable that the Curetonian Syriac version is an abridged form of the Syriac version of the seven letters, than that the latter is an expansion of the former. Epistle to Polycarp, to the Ephesians and to the Romans: on the left opening Cureton's restored Greek text at the head with the shorter and longer recensions in parallel, on the right the Syriac from his ms a at the head with the longer and shorter Latin versions. For the epistle to the Magnesians, Trallians, Philadelphians and Smyrnians: the shorter and longer Greek recensions on the left, the longer and shorter Latin on the right. Fragments of `Other Ignatian epistles, not mentioned by Eusebius' include epistles from and to Maria Cassobolita, to the Tarsians, to the Antiochians, to Hero the Deacon and to the Philippians, in parallel Greek and Latin; to John Apostle and Evangelist I-II and to S. Mary the Virgin, in Latin only. -- Testimonies respecting St. Ignatius, and extracts from the Ignatian epistles as cited by various authors down to the tenth century, p. [158]-195 -- Passages from the Ignatian epistles, and extracts from various writers respecting St. Ignatius, in Syriac, p. [196]-225 -- English translation from the Syriac, p. [226]-55 -- Excerpta Ignatiana Aethiopice, p. [256]-62, Ethiopic and Latin on facing pages -- Notes, p. [263]-363, with Syriac text of the Epistle to the Tarsians, obtained by the British Museum in 1847, p. 363-65. [ DR - 3 ].

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Keywords: Weblists2 Theology Bible Studies Theology Syriac Greek Latin

FALLERSLEBEN, HOFFMANN VON,

Geschichte Des Deutschen Kirchenliedes Bis Auf Luthers Zeit

. nebst einem Anhange In Dulci Iubilo, nun Singet und seid Froh: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Poesie. Dritte Ausgabe.Two volumes bound in one, In Dulci Iubilo containing "einer musikbeilage von Ludwig Erk"). Carl Rümpler (verlag), Hannover, 1861; xii + 540pp ("Geschichte..") & 128pp ("In Dulci.."); binder's cloth, gilt-titled; small splits in spine ends, corners bumped & v.sl.worn, waterstain to a few corners, a few spots on occas. leaves, otherwise sound. ASK FOR POSTAL QUOTE [ST].

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Catalogue: German Literature

Keywords: Theology Medieval Literature Mittelalter Church History Hymns German Deutsche Poetry Music Chorals

HAWKER, ROBERT,

Zion's Pilgrim

0. 1801. Falmouth, printed by T.Findell [& sold London, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Helston, Penzance etc.]; 1801; [iv], 170pp. with wood-engraved title-vignette, and wood-engraved tail-piece [initialled R[obert] A[ustin]; original sheep; corners rubbed, spine very rubbed, with loss, small patch of leather missing from front board, larger patch missing from rear board, contents minimally spotted, short closed tear at p. 87/8. First edition, with the book-plate of John Davies Enys [possibly a relation of Davies Gilbert, the Cornish Antiquary]. The author, a very popular preacher, was the grandfather of R.S.Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow. The work describes in a fictional first-person narrative how a man is brought to Christian belief and values through a series of encounters - the Moral Preacher, the Poor Man's Experience, the Suicide, the Ploughman, the Stable Boy, an Inn, etc. including the Jew, with a narrative of how he was converted to the Christian faith. In 1820 the artist William Blake engraved a portrait of "Revd. Robert Hawker", after Ponsford; a very reduced photocopy.of this print is loosely inserted before the half-title of our copy.

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Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Ianweb Theology Christianity Evangelism Religion the Pilgrim's Progress 18th Century Devon and Cornwall Judaica English Literature R.S. Hawker

HEIDENHEIM, HANNS H.,

Woodcuts of the Bible. 5 Volumes

. 5 volumes in folio. splendid edition, one of 300 numbered copies printed by hand from original woodblocks on hand-made Japanese paper. All prints signed by the artist/printer. Bound bloc-book type in oak-tanned cowhide, covers embossed from woodblock. Folder and slipcase covered in hand-made paper, main title and masthead of the volumes are also woodcuts. Düsseldorf, Ursus presse, 1965-1970. Splendid set.
¶ Volume 1: IJOB (Job) 23 woodcuts, separate introduction enclosed; Volume 2: Das Lieder der Lieder (Song of songs) 17 woodcuts, biblical text edited by Max Brod; introd. by J. Mager; Volume 3: Jesaja (Isaiah) 20 woodcuts. Volume 4: Am Anfang ( In the beginning) 21 woodcuts, 1998, In these woodcuts the artist tried to show the development of the Deus absconditus, the hidden God till His revelation in creation. Foundation of this work were the books of the Kabbalah. Volume Volume 5: Ursprung (Origin) 20 woodcuts, 2002, the 2nd announcement of the creation in the Bible. The illustrations cover old folk legends gathered over 3000 years going back to the Stone Age. Cave drawings from 7000 to 200,000 years ago form the basis of these woodcuts. A descriptive booklet in the German language is added.ADDED ALSO: Large poster-sized print , measuring 97 x 61 cm. PSALM 22: Eli, eli, lema sabachtani. Printed from the woodblock in 3 colours, one of an edition of 180 copies printed on Japanese paper signed and numbered . AND Numerous invitations to Heidenheim's gallery in Duesseldorf( private press ).

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HOFFMANN, FELIX

Das Hohe Lied and : Felix Hoffmann. Seine Arbeit Im Buch, in Glas, Auf Der Wand

. Das Hohe Lied . Zürich und Stuttgart, Flamberg, 1964. Mit 22 (10 ganzs.) Orig.-Farbholzschnitten Von Felix Hoffmann. (24) Bll. 4to. Orig.-HPgt. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel. 1 von 400 numerierten Exemplaren, im Impressum vom Künstler signiert, der ebenfalls das Einbandpapier schuf. Der Text folgt der Übersetzung der Zürcher Bibel. Typografische Gestaltung Max Caflisch. - Dieses Exemplar unnumeriert hors commerce aus der Bibliothek des Hamburger Verlegers Friedrich Wittig. Tadelloses Exemplar in Schuber. Siehe Wendland 50. AND: Henning Wendland und Guido Fischer: Felix Hoffmann. Seine Arbeit im Buch, in Glas, auf der Wand. Aarau und Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Sauerlaender, 1971, Erschienen zum 60. Geburtstag von Felix Hoffmann, der die Gestaltung des Buches besorgte. Mit einem speziell für dieses Buch geschaffenen, lose beiliegenden signierten Farbholzschnitt; dieser wurde von den Originalstöcken abgezogen. - 4°, mit zahlreichen teils farbigen Abbildungen. 22x29, Geb Schutzumschlag. ca. 118 Seiten unpaginiert und einer Karte mit Text " mit bestem Dank zurueck" signiert und datiert 13.4.1970 [an den Verleger Friedrich Wittig] Dazu Ausschnitt aus der Welt vom 21.12.1964 ueber Felix Hoffmann, ebenfalls ueber sein Leben von Arianna Giachi zum Tode des Kuenstlers am 11.7.1975, ein Angebot des Flamberg Verlag Zuerich fuer Hoffmanns letzte Illustrationen des Buches Weihnachten, Poster mit einer farbigen Illustration, D. Oelbermann : Felix Hoffmann - Partnerschaft und Einfuehlung in der Reihe Quellen der Buchgestaltung erschienen im Boersenblatt vom 6.1.1979; Ausstellungskatalog der Galerie im Rahmhof, Oktober/November 1974 FELIX HOFFMANN -Illustrationen - Farbholzschnitte- Radierungen , 8 seiten in farbigem Umschlag und loose dazu ein Holzschnitt in Sepia; schliesslich Felix Hoffmann: Vom Chaos vor der Schoepfung bis zur Auferstehung Christi. Die Chorfenster in unserer Stadtkirche,4 Seiten, eine Seite Text.

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Catalogue: Art

Keywords: German Theology Art Bibliophile Signed

JUNCKER, CHRISTIAN. [1668 - 1714 ].

Das Guldene Und Silberne Ehren-Gedächtniß Des Theuren Gottes-Lehrers D. Martini Lutheri. In Welchem Dessen Leben, Tod, Familie Und Reliquien, Benebst Den Vornehmsten Geschichten Der Evangelischen Reformation, Wie Auch Der Evangelischen Jubel-Feyern,

1706. umständlich beschrieben, und auf eine sonderbar anmuthige Art, aus mehr als zwey hundert Medaillen oder Schau-Müntzen und Bildnissen von rarer Curiosität, mit auserlesenen Anmerkungen, erkläret werden. Durch Christian Juncker/Dresdensen, Hoch-Fürstlichen Sachsen-Hennebergischen gesamten Historiographum. Schleusingen, gedruckt von Georg Wilhelm Göbel, und zu finden in Franckfurt und Leipzig / Beij Johann Andreä Endters sel. Sohn und Erben, ANNO M DCC VI , [1706]. (195 x 120mm). [LVI] 562, [xii = Register] + 2 blank leaves. Complete with the double-page frontispiece and 8 full-page engraved plates of portraits, some of which folding, included in the pagination. Also a folding genealogical chart [not included in the pagination ] With 213 copper-engraved impressions of medals in the text. Decorative head- and tail-pieces and initials. Printed in Fraktur, Half-title, Title-page printed in red and black, In full contemporary vellum binding.title handwritten in ink on spine which also has a few remnants of a typed label. A very good and tight copy, a few mm. missing from top corner of f. e.p. and first blank . First enlarged German edition of the Latin edition. - Contains medals concerning Luther, Brenz, Bucer, Calvin, Melanchton, Menno Symons, Viret, Zwingli, Cromwell, Erasmus, Dürer, etc. see: Lipsius p. 204. Jackson 1432.

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JUSTIN MARTYR (ED. BY JOHANN CARL THEODOR OTTO, 1816-1897 )

S. Iustini Philosophi Et Martyris Opera Quae Feruntur Omnia : Ad Optimos Libros Mss. Partim Nondum Collatos Recensuit Prolegomenis Adnotatione Versione Instruxit Indices Adiecit / Ioann. Carol. Theod. Otto . Opera Iustini Indubitata (5 Parts)

Mauke. ( Corpus apologetarum Christianorum saeculi secundi ; vol. 1-5 ) editio altera. Friederich Mauke, Jena, 1847-1850, second edition, five volumes bound in two, 1786 pp. + 4 facsimiles, size 22 x 14 cm. approx. complete works of the early Christian writer, Justin Martyr, giving parallel texts in Greek and Latin, accompanied by commentary in footnotes. Full calf Leather binding, showing some signs of wear but generally robust, front and rear covers double-ruled in gilt on all four sides with gilt floral ornament in each corner, forming a rectangular panel, further gilt patterning of lines and dots along cover edges; gilt titles on labels on spines, with five raised bands, each having a line of gilt (now somewhat eroded) above and below; head and tail bands intact; cover surfaces have many spots of a darker colour (possibly from old ink stains), also there are scuff marks, particularly on the spines, and there is some wear to the cover corners and edges of both vols. and at head and tail of spine on vol. 2; apart from the upper joint of vol. 2, the joints remain strong; end papers brown; pages edged in pale red along fore-edge and lower-edge, and in brown along upper-edge; front end paper of each volume has bookplate, partly defaced, of Thomas Raffles D.D. L.L.D. (1788-1863, Congregationalist minister) with his coat of arms, partly covered by what appears to be the remains of a bookplate of the Congregational College Library, Manchester, accompanied by the former library shelf mark of "G.9.H"; text is clean and unmarked throughout, apart from slight foxing on just a few pages. Rare book. No copy of this edition in the British Library. ? Justin was born around 100 (both his birth and death dates are approximate) at Flavia Neapolis (ancient Shechem, modern Nablus) in Samaria (the middle portion of Israel, between Galilee and Judea) of pagan Greek parents. He was brought up with a good education in rhetoric, poetry, and history. He studied various schools of philosophy in Alexandria and Ephesus , joining himself first to Stoicism, then Pythagoreanism, then Platonism, looking for answers to his questions. While at Ephesus, he was impressed by the steadfastness of the Christian martyrs, Justin became a Christian, but he continued to wear the cloak that was the characteristic uniform of the professional teacher of philosophy. His position was that pagan philosophy, especially Platonism, is not simply wrong, but is a partial grasp of the truth, and serves as "a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ." He engaged in debates and disputations with non-Christians of all varieties, pagans, Jews, and heretics. He opened a school of Christian philosophy and accepted students, first at Ephesus and then later at Rome. He was tried before the Roman prefect Rusticus, refused to renounce Christianity, and was put to death by beheading along with six of his students, one of them a woman. A record of the trial, probably authentic, is preserved, known as The Acts of Justin the Martyr.

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KEIL, FRIEDRICH SIEGEMUND (ED.)

Des Seligen Zeugen Gottes, Merkwürdige Lebens-Umstände Bey Seiner Medicinalischen Leibesconstitution, Krankheiten, Geistlichen Und Leiblichen Anfechtungen Und Anderen Zufällen, Von Dem Jahre Seiner Geburt 1483 Bis an Seinen Tod 1546

. beschrieben in vier Theilen und so viel Bildnissen, die sich auf Luthers Amtsumstände schicken, sammt Geschlechts-Register aller seiner Nachkommen bis auf gegenwärtige Zeit. Leipzig, bey Friedrich Gotthold Jacobäern, 1764, 4 parts bound in one volume, each with a different portrait of Luther as frontispiece, [14],94,[2]; [2],[93-]237,[3]; [4],184,[2]; [2],[185-]332,[2] pp. the preface to this 2nd edition is dated: Krötzschau, am 29. Sept. 1764. Also includes the preface to trhe first edition dated: Zeiz, am 5.März 1753. Part 1: Von dem Jahre seiner Geburt 1483 bis auf das Jahr 1520. - Part 2: Von dem Jahre 1521 bis auf das Jahr 1529. - Part 3: Von dem Jahre 1530 bis auf das Jahr 1541. - Part 4: Von dem Jahre 1542 bis an seinen Tod 1546. text irregularly browned Previous owner has added some annotations in i9nk on blank preceding title and on l;ast blank in contemp full calf binding, decorated spine with 5 raised bands, and leather title label. binding worn, esp. at corners, spine lacks small part of about 1 cm at the top, outer hinges partly split.

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KEILL, JOHN ( 1671-1721 )

An Introduction to Natural Philosophy Or, Philosophical Lectures Read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700

. To which are added, the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill M.D. Savillian Professor of Astronomy, F.R.S.. Translated from the last edition of the Latin. The second edition. London : printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, MDCCXXVI [ 1726 ], xii,306pp. :; 8°. Lacks the final advertisement leaf. Inscr. and smudges in ink on title ,name in ink on first page iii of preface. Text quite bright, but with occas. light soiling. P. 69/70 with heavier brown spot on centre right hand sideTitle page frayed at bottom ( see image) , last 40 pp wwith more marginal browning, and somewhat creased in top inside cornersleaf 305/306 with heavier staining , small hole in the centre not affecting the illustration and frayed sat the bottom. The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall. Illustrated with numerous engravings and diagrams. Keill, John 1671-1721, mathematician and astronomer, was born in Edinburgh.. He was the deputy to Dr. Millington, Sedleian professor at Oxford, and seems to have joined Christ Church (ib. ii. 26). His lectures were from the first highly successful. They were printed in 1701 under the title "Introductio ad Veram Physicam " and became well known on the continent. Halley is said to have pointed out numerous errors in the first edition, but in a friendly manner. (ib. i. 90). The book was first published in Latin in 1701 Two additional lectures and many corrections were introduced into the second edition, published at Oxford in 1705. Other editions appeared in London in 1715, and at Cambridge in 1741. In a translation into English, published in 1736, Maupertuis, who suggested the venture, appended his theory of the ring of the planet Saturn. The "Introductio" was considered Keill"s "best performance" and it was generally welcomed as an excellent introduction to the "Principia" of Newton He was much Newton's client in the priority dispute with Leibniz. One of few Newton supporters with High Church patronage he was crucial in fighting Cartesianism and mechanical thinking, stating natural theology should be subordinated to the Scripture. His lectures were well regarded with the first translation into English. In a new polished cloth binding with the central leather panel of trhe original binding preserved and recessed in the front board (see image).

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LUTHER, MARTIN

Das Newe Testament Deutzsch. Neuausgabe Der Wittenberger Septemberbibel Vom Jahre 1522

. veranstaltet unter Mitarbeit von Gustav Kawerau und Otto Reichert. Berlin, Furche Verlag, 1918, [7] CLXVII lvs. [10] , CXIV [20] lvs.[16] Orig.-full white vellum binding (sl. soiled, rubbed) 4 raised bands . Number 159 of the limited edition of 190 copies of the special edition with handcoloured initials by Anna Simons. Printed with instructions by F. H. Ehmcke. Title on spine hardly visible. Luther's first translation of the entire New Testament from the Greek original was published by Melchior Lotter the Younger in September 1522, The so-called September Testament. Diese Neuausgabe der Wittenberger Septemberbibel vom Jahre 1522 veranstaltet unter Mitarbeit von Geh. Oberkonsistorialrat Professor D. Dr. Gustav Kawerau in Berlin und Pfarrer D. Otto Reichert in Geiersdorf, Kreis Löwenberg (Schlesien), im Jahre 1918, dem vierten Jahre des Weltkrieges. Copy owned by the Hamburg publisher Friedrich Wittig ( 1906 - 2001) ,President of the German booksellers Association 1962 - 1965 and 4 handwritten cards to Wittig from Heinrich Rennebach, ( 1888-1971) Managing director of the Furche verlag 1916 - 1959 who had presented Wittig with this copy and a copy of a typewritten letter from Wittig to Rennebach.

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Keywords: Bible Theology Luther Religion Christianity

MCCRIE, THOMAS

Life of John Knox, Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland, with Biographical Notices of the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland During the Sixteenth Century, to Which Is Subjoined an

. Appendix, Consisting of letters and other papers never before published. Edinburgh, John Ogle and William Blackwood; Glasgow, M. Ogle; London, J. Murray. R. Baldwin,, R.Ogle and T. Hamilton, 1812. First edition. XVII, [1] 582pp.+ unnumbered index. Half calf with marbeled paper covered boards, hinges and corners rubbed, text darkened end papers sl. foxed. ?Thomas McCrie was born in Duns in November 1772. After receiving his elementary education at the parish school, he was by the age of 15 to be found teaching in two local village schools. In 1788 he went to Edinburgh University, graduated, and went to teach in Brechin in May 1791, in a school connected to an Antiburgher congregation there. He was ordained in 1796, but was ejected from his pastorate, for his views, in 1809. In 1812 he published his life of John Knox, which has been described as 'a work of genius and erudition'. In 1813 he was made Doctor of Divinity, and was Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh from 1816 - 1818. His life of Andrew Melville was published in 1819. Thereafter he continued to write and publish other religious tracts. He died, in Edinburgh, on August 6th 1835. In Scottish ecclesiastical history proper, the palm must be assigned to an McCrie, an original seceder from the established church. Through his Life of John Knox (1812), as the subtitle of the book indicates, he sought to throw light upon the history of the Scottish reformation. It was followed by The Life of Andrew Melville, and the two books, which were supplemented by material belonging to a later period, became standard narratives of the greatest historical movement in Scottish national life. McCrie further contributed to the history of the reformation two less exhaustive works, on its progress and suppression in Italy and in Spain. Whether, had he carried out his design of a life of Calvin, it would have proved equal to his life of the great Scottish reformer, it is, of course, impossible to say; but few ecclesiastical historians were better qualified for essaying even so thorny a theme.(in: Cambr. his. of Engl. and Am. lit volume 15 ) [DL 1/3].

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ORTEL, H.,

Geistlicher Frauen-Zimmer Spiegel

0. 1664. aus alt und neuem Testament/ an vierzig erleuchteten Frauen in schoenen und lieblichen Geschichten / nutzlichen Erinnerungen/ andaechtigen Gebeten/ und Himmelauffliegenden Herzenseufzern weiblichem Geschlecht zum Schaz der Gottseligkeit vorgestellet durch Hieronimus Orteln/ von Augsburg. welchen neulichst M. Jacob Behme/ Pfarrer in Zweinitz verbessert: der anizo mit seel-erquikenden Bluemlein meistzenteils des woledlen /u. Johann Ristens/ wenig anderer beruemter Reimdichter bestreuet ueber den Gewissenlosen Roschischen Nachdruck hin und wieder verbessert: und mit 46 kuenstlichen Kupferstueken verzieret .. [Two parts in one volume] Frankfurt in Georg Muellers Verlag MDCLXIV [1664]; 12o (c. 5 x 11 cm.); [ii] [xviii], 766, [xviii] pp, with 44 copper-engraved plates, and engraved title-page to Part Two (the pagination is continuous); contemporary binding in dark pink velvet, with traces of a floral pattern, burnished endpapers, and two intricately-worked silver-plated clasps (complete and in full working order), gilt and gauffered edges; covers worn in places, with a few splits, very small brown stain with minute hole on p. 407/8; a very good, very well-preserved copy. A work very popular in its day, offering comfort but also instruction, or comfort usually in the form of instruction, and prayers, for women in whatever situations or tribulations they might experience in a very violent period of German history. It was obviously intended, and used, for devotion and meditation at home rather than in Church. In an informative blog for the University of Pennsylvania Dr Elisabeth Esser Braun, who had donated her copy of the 1708 edtion of this book to the university, refers also to a longer study by Ferdinand van Ingen, "Frauentugend und Tugendexempel . Zum Frauenspiegel des Hieronymus Ortelius und Philip von Zesens Biblischen Frauenportaets", in "Barocker Lust-Spiegel. Studien zur Literatur des Barock", (Amsterdam, 1984). We cannot ascertain whether our edition is the first to contain the additional poems by diverse authors, particularly Johannes Rist [known by some of his contemporaries as "Nordischer Apoll], but the title-page implies it is. The binding, with its 17th century-crafted silver-plated clasps and gauffered edges, is a delightful and uncommon survival. The engravings mostly show women of the Bible, whose lives and example inspire the separate chapters of the text.

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Keywords: Ianweb Antiquarian Rare Theology German 17th Century Bindings Bibliophile German Baroque Literature Women's Studies Johannes Rist

PARKINSON, RICHARD, CANON OF MANCHESTER,

The Old Church Clock.

. Edited with a biographical sketch of the author by John Evans. 5th edition. Manchester, Abel, Heywood & Son, London, Simlin, Marshall, 1880, xcii,255 + 12pp. 24 black and white illustrations, half calf with title label, large margin edition. 5 raised bands, staining (fingers ?) to some pp. a few text pages have tiny creases to bottom corners, an extra loose photograph of the author is inserted. [ DR4 ].

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PETER, REV. DAVID, .

Hanes Crefydd, Yn Nghymru, O`R Amser Y Daeth Y Cymry

. I `nys Brydain Hyd Yr amser Presennoi, Gan D. Pater. Caerfyddin, 1816. Xvi, 704pp. Bound in full chestnut calf , cnrs. and edges rubbed and frayed; cnrs. bumped; spine creased and edges worn; scratch mar ks on bds. Inscribed by prev. owner, otherwise good. ? PETER, David (1765-1837) b. Aberystwyth. Minister (Ind) Heol Awst, Carmarthen. Headteacher from 1795-1835 at Carmarthen College. [ ST ].

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PORST, JOHANN

Geistliche Und Liebliche Lieder,

. Welche Der Geist des Glaubens durch Doct. Martin Luthern, Johann Hermann, Paul Gerhard, und andere seine Werckzeuge, in den vorigen und jetzigen Zeiten gedichtet, und die bisher in Kirchen und Schulen der Königl. Preuß. und Churf. Brandenburg. Lande bekannt und mit Koenigl. Allergnaedigster Approbation und Privilegio gedruckt und eingefuehret worden Nebst einigen Gebeten und einer Vorrede von Johann Porst .?Berlin, Verlag der Schatzischen Erben, 1812, 795pp. [14] = Register, 64pp. (= prayers) Title printed in red and black, with a double page frontispiece ( view of Berlin and portraits of the Royal couple Queen Luise and Friedrich-Wilhelm III. ) in full contemporary calf, spine with 5 raised bands and gilt (worn) decorations, The front board has the initials F and J, headed by a crown and the year 1814 embossed in gilt the rear board has a small gilt decoration in the centre. All edges gilt with embossed decorations near the corners, booksize: 16 x 7.5 cm the binding is worn but in an overall good condition. A previous owner has written the dates of births and deaths of several family members on the end papers in ink between 1825 and 1839 [ Johann Porst, 1668-1728 ] [DR-5].

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PSALTER

Kievskaya Psaltyr'. 2 Volumes.

. Vol. 1: G. Vzdornov, Issledovanie Kievskoi psaltiri. Vol. 2. Kievskaya psaltyr' 1397 goda iz Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki imeni M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrina v Leningrade "Iskusstvo", Moskva, 1978; 171, 229, 4pp. with many plates, bound with d/w, folio, very good edition, splendid work Accompanied by The Kiev Psalter of 1397: an analysis. by Nadezhda Toranova. MKA Erin-Lee McGuire. which also includes some coloured illustrations from the facsimile edition. 16 A-4 pages, loose, printed single-sided.[DL1 /5 ].

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Book number: 016496

Catalogue: Slavic

Keywords: Theology Slavonic-Lot Wim Meeuws Rusrare Slavonic Russian Medieval Russian Bibliography Manuscripts Gospels Psalters Ukraine Kiev

RAHLFS, ALFRED (ED.):

Septuaginta. Id Est Vetus Testamentum Graece Iuxta Lxx Interpretes. Volume 1

. Leges et historiae. Stuttgart, [the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible ] Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935, XLVIII,941pp. First edition. Orig ½ black leather with leather corners and with blue buckram boards, dark brown endpapers & page edges stained red. Gilt title on spine. Very nice copy. Relies mainly on Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus, and presents a critical apparatus with variants from these and several other sources.( cheap but heavy volume, 2.9 KG ).

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RELIGION -

Vermehrtes Luneburgisches Kirchen Gesang Buch, Nebst Einem Gebet Buche Auf Sr. Konigl. Grosz= Britannischen Majestaet Und Chur Furstl. Durchl. Zu Braunschweig- Lueneburg Etc. Allergnadigsten Befehl Herausgegeben

. Fuenfte Auflage [ 5th edn. ] Lueneburg, Stern, 1789, [16 unnumberd pp ] 1209pp with 1020 songs followed by 17pp. being the index; followed by Verzeichnis einiger Lieder zu den Sonn- und Festtags -Evangelien und Episteln, nach den Nummern der Lieder, 22 unnumbered pp. 3 unnumberd pp. containig Biblische Vorlesungen an den Sonntagen. Gebetbuch zur Kirchen- und Haus=Andacht, nebst den Kirchen=Kollected und Antiphonen. Lueneburg, Stern, 1789,296pp. Episteln und Evangelia auf alle Sonn = und Festtage, nebst den zeitlichen Vorlesungen. Mit beigefuegter Geschichte von dem Leiden und Tode Jesu Christi, wie auch der Beschreibung von der Zerstoerung der Stadt Jerusalem. Lueneburg, Stern, 1843, 216pp. full black calf leather binding. more recent f.e.p. no e.p at the end. 5 raised bands on the spine worn binding solid.text uniformly darkened, a.e.g.
¶ First published in 1767 later editions hardly changed till it was replaced by the Hannöversche Gesangbuch about 100 years later.[ WB 14 ].

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ROEHR, JOHANN FRIEDRICH

Gedaechtniszpreddigt Bei Der Oeffentlichen Todesfeier Der Hoechtseligen Frau Groszherzogin Zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach Louise Geborenen Landgraefin Von Hessendarmstadt

. am Sonntage Reminiseere, den 7. Maerz 1830, in der Haupt- und Stadtkirche zu Weimar. Mit erlaeuternden Anmerkungen. Zweite Auflage, Weimar, Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1830, 32pp. in blank green wraapers as issued. Small stamp on title page.
¶ Johann Friedrich Röhr (1777 - 1848 ) , Doktor der Theologie, Generalsuperintendent und Oberhofprediger in Weimar. In seinen Schriften und Predigten erklaerte er das Christentum als reine Vernunftreligion. Roehr gilt als einer der letzten Vertreter des theologischen Rationalismus. Dazu hielt er 1832 die Trauerrede zur Bestattung Johann Wolfgang von Goethes in Weimar.

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VAKARELIYSKA C. (ED)

The Curzon Gospel (2 Vols)

. 2008, 1344 pp. fine immaculate hardback set . The first full publication of Curzon Gospel, transliterated and annotated. Introduction and commentary accessibly presented for historians and theologians Contains a complete index verborum of all orthographic and morphological forms. An essential tool for the study of medieval Slavic. Offers unique insights into the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This pioneering work introduces and presents the first full publication of the text of an unusual fourteenth-century Bulgarian gospel manuscript known as the Curzon Gospel. Volume I is an annotated transcription edition of the manuscript. Volume II is a comprehensive introduction and commentary volume analyzing its linguistic, orthographic, and textual features. The Curzon Gospel c. 1354, is important both for the study of the development of the Bulgarian language and for understanding the medieval Slavic tradition of Gospel transmission. Unlike most medieval Slavic manuscripts, it is reliably datable and serves as a chronological reference point for other gospel manuscripts. Professor Vakareliyska's annotated transcription edition includes modern chapter and verse numeration and a line-by-line comparison of the text with a corpus of twelve other Church Slavonic manuscripts. It has an index verborum of all orthographic and morphological forms in the text and their locations. Professor Vakareliyska has written and designed her commentary volume for a general audience of linguists, medievalists, Byzantinists, and Church historians. She examines the Curzon Gospel's close relationship to the thirteenth and fourteenth-century Dobreisho and Banitsa gospels and, by comparing the three manuscripts, offers a broad reconstruction of their common ancestor. She includes a detailed discussion of the Curzon Gospel's calendar of saints, discussing its relation to the tenth-century Constantinople Typikon and Latin martyrologies, and its implications for the understanding of the medieval Slavic calendar tradition. The book is fully indexed. These volumes offer a unique resource for the study of the medieval Church Slavonic language and Gospel tradition, and the veneration of saints in the Slavic Eastern Orthodox tradition. Cynthia Vakareliyska's work will be treasured by generations of scholars . Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2010 Distinguished Scholarship Award Winner of the 2009 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Best Contribution to Slavic Linguistics prize. Winner of the 2009 Bulgarian Studies Association John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize .(weight 3 KG) OUP's price October 2016 is GBP 310.00 [DL].

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Book number: F1457-4

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WERNER , Z (BUT NOT MENTIOPNED) [ FRIEDRICH LUDWIG ZACHARIAS WERNER ]

Martin Luther Oder Die Weihe Der Kraft. Eine Tragödie Vom Verfasser Der Söhne Des Thales

. Berlin, bei Johann Daniel Sander, 1807, XXI, (5), 381pp. Engraved frontispiece shows Luther with his wife, subtitled "Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott" + 5 further engraved plates in the text, folding plate at the end. This is a musical score of " Theresens Sehnsucht" by Bernhard Anselm Weber. Paper covered boards with green linen spine (one edge worn, linen corners, one corner worn. First edition of the first Luther drama in German literature. Werner disclaimed this work after becoming a Roman Catholic with "Die Weihe der Unkraft" It became his largest success however and was performed for the first time in Berlin in 1806. It also causes controversies . At the request of Wilhelm II and also caused by criticism in the Spenerschen Zeitung" the play was stopped after 15 Performances. E. T. A. Hoffmann was friends with Werner in his youth and later in Warsaw. - - see: Goedeke VI, 94, 4; Voerster, Hoffmann-Forschungen S. 102f. Wilpert-G.7. Slg. Borst 1064. Houben, Verbotene Literatur II, 571-599.

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ZINZENDORF,NIKOLAUS LUDWIG GRAF VON

Nikolaus Ludwig Graf Von Zinzendorf (1700-1760 ) a Unique Collection

. About 50 titles/items. Please ask for full details and directions to the complete list which we can also send as a PDF.

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Keywords: Zinzendorf Protestantism