Rationarum temporum. by PETAVIUS Dionysius (Petau Denys) -

Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. Good. Petavius, Dionysius. Aurelianensis E. Societate Jesu opus de Theologicis Dogmatibus. Tomus Quintus and Tomus Sextus bound in one volume. Zachariae, Francisci Antonius. Venice: Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. xii, 316; 350pp. Indexed. Folio. Full vellum binding. Book condition: Good. Vellum rubbed with losses of both head and foot of spine and corners. Covers soiled. Binding tight and end sheet lightly soiled. Volume 5 and 6 bound in one only.

Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. Good. Petavius, Dionysius. Aurelianensis E. Societate Jesu opus de Theologicis Dogmatibus. Tomus Tertius and Tomus Quartus. Zachariae, Francisci Antonius. Venice: Typographia Remondiniana, 1757. xv, 446; xx, 428pp. Indexed. Folio. Full vellum binding. Book condition: Good. Rubbing to edges with losses on both head and foot of spine and corners. Covers soiled. End sheets lightly soiled. Binding pulling away in the middle of the book but still holding. Volume 3 and 4 bound together in one volume only.

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.

(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

[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