Rationarum temporum. by PETAVIUS Dionysius (Petau Denys) -

1641. Paris, Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. remains of ties. Wear to backcover around lower corner. Light marginal browning. (24),703,(101),(4),291,(7) pp. With the name of the wellknown Danish historian C. paludan-Müller on front free endpaper. Denis Pétau was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labours of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849.

Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: Theodorum Haak, 1724. Two volumes, complete. Octavo, original polished calf, calf labels, [150], 660 pp. + [ii], 245, [ii] pp. Frontis portrait, engraved title, plates, 1 folding. Denis Petau (1583-1652) was a French Jesuit theologian, and one of the best-known scholars of his age, producing works in the fields of chronology, history, philosophy, polemics, patristics, and the history of Christianity. This work is a summary of a larger work he published in 1628, entitled Tabulae chronolgicae. That work was developed alongside of his vast, but unfinished, De theologicis dogmatibus, the first systematic attempt ever made to treat the development of christiana doctrine from an historical point of view. Very Good; joints are tender, upper label of Volume II is chipped, a bit of scuffing, interiors clean and tight.

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Apud Theodorum Haak, Apud Theodorum Haak, 1724. 8vo (20x13 cm). Contemporary blind vellum, title in ink on spine (vellum partly soiled). 152 (incl. title); 660; (ii),195,(vii); 245,(ii: Index),(i:blank) pp. With 2 titles printed in red and black, with woodcut vignettes (first title with stamps and small stain). With frontispiece-portrait and engraved frontispiece: interior of a library. And with 7 (1 folding) other engravings with portrait insets. - The first unnumbered 152 pp. 'Prefatio in Editionem Genevensem Anni 1720'. - Next 660 pp. 'Rationarii Temporum I' (528 pp.) with 'Stemmata' (56 pp) and 'Indices'76 pp. - 'Rationarii Temporum II'. 204 pp. incl. title, 'Ptolemaei Canon Regum' & 'Index'. - 'Rationarium Temporum III'. 245 pp. 'Successiones Patriarcharum, Pontificum, Imperatorum, ac Regum V. & N. Testamenti'. and 2 pp. 'Index'. - Some spots, a few leaves browned, but on the… Read More

(152)+660+195+(9)+245+(2) pag. Full leather, with coat of arms of Haarlem on covers (Spoelder 3). With price, d.d. 1819 for Jacob Warning, pupil of the Latin school of Haarlem. Illustrated with titleprint and portrait.

Sebastianum Cramoisy, Paris,, 1652. 2 parts in 1 vol., 12mo., on laid paper, part II with 8 full-page tables in the text, wanting title to first part and part II E6-7, part 1 R3 with small marginal tear (not affecting text or marginalia), neat early eighteenth century ex libris inscription on blank preliminary verso, some negligible age-staining; original full vellum, yapped edges, backstrip lettered in MS, a remarkably bright, clean, tight copy in wholly unrestored contemporary binding. This is the complete work, comprising Part I Books 1-IX and Part II Books 1-IV, thirteen books in all. The two parts are separately titled and paginated, and each has its own (extensive) index. Part I retains the dedication to D. Ludovico Borbonio, ad Lectorem, indiculus auctorum, and the two 'summa' leaves. Part I pagination is mis-numbered from p.443 onwards. Effectively an abridgement of the great Jesuit scholar's masterpiece 'Opus de doctrina temporum' (1627). Denis [Denys] Petau (1583-1652)… Read More

, [50], 568, [8]; [12], 536; [8], 364, volumes 1 & 2 in first book, volume 3 in separate binding, volume 3 edited by Jacques Sirmond, title pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes to title pages, double column text in Latin, marbled endpapers

Paris:: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1612., 1612. Folio (in 6s). [viii], 176, 175-427, [3], 66, [12] pp. Title printed in red and black, large title woodcut vignette (of the Morel family), decorative woodcut headpieces, large woodcut initial letters, text in double columns, 4 figs. on pages 369, 370 and 375, indexes, erratum; lacks rear free endpaper, lower corner of title torn away. The second numbered sequence in the pagination has the caption title: Ad Synesii orationem de regno. Original full vellum. Near fine. Rare. This is the only complete edition of Synesius's writings. The edition is bi-lingual, with facing Greek and Latin texts, translated by Petau, with extensive notes. Synesius was a Greek Bishop of Ptolemais and Neo-Platonic philosopher in the Cyrenaica. His writings are perhaps most notable for the tension they reveal between his Christian and Platonist beliefs. "Synesius pursued his higher studies at Alexandria, where he became a devoted disciple of the famous Hypatia, to whom several of his… Read More

[24], 354, [8] pp.First edition of a controversial work by Denis Pétau containing the results of his historical research on the functioning of Christian clerical authorities (primarily bishops) from the time of the Church Fathers to his own time, followed by a discussion of various questions of dogma. The text contains many citations from Latin and Greek Fathers. It is divided into two "books": liber primus "qui est de episcopis, & eorum jurisdictione, ac dignitate" (pp. 1-160) discusses the very delicate subject of the authority of bishops, a major issue in the disputes between Catholics and Protestants; and liber secundus "in quo certae fidei, vel rerum ecclesiasticarum quaestiones disputantur" (pp. 161-354) discusses various other questions of dogma related to widespread heresies. Pétau was a prodigious author and "one of the most distinguished theologians of the seventeenth century" (Catholic encyclopaedia), with works ranging over chronology, history, philosophy, patristics and the history of… Read More