1698 APOSTLES AND EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, by WILLIAM CAVE

MDCXCVIII.

(1698)

Above is the complete first work title page.

Contains 29 large engraved plates; heavy oversize book.

Text in Dutch with some Greek, Hebrew and Latin; heavy oversize book, five pounds four ounces.

A translation of Cave’s Latin Antiquitates apostolicæ and Apostolici; first Dutch edition, two works in one. Both have full title pages, the first in red-black text, each have engraved vignettes, and both are 1698.

The engraved title page by Joseph Mulder is after Jan Goeree. The twenty-eight plates by Pieter Sluyter (also after Jan Goeree) are depictions of the Apostles and early church fathers along with scenes from their lives.

There is one in-text engraving, on page 209 of the first work, between Petrus and Andreas, which shows a Roman praying at an altar with Greek inscription on one side and a fire burning on top.

The whole contains numerous engraved initial letters and tail-pieces. The second work also includes a 30 page chronological table.

HISTORY:

William Cave’s two works (full titles below) were published as a continuation of Jeremy Taylor’s Antiquitates christianæ, or, The Life and Death of the Holy Jesus.

1. Antiquitates apostolicæ, or, The history of the lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Savior, and the two evangelists, SS. Mark and Luke to which is added an introductory discourse concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical.

2. Apostolici: or, the history of the lives, acts, death and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles; as also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years to which is added a chronology of the first three ages of the church.

Second work Dutch title page:

Apostolische Mannen, of het Leven, Bedryf, Dood, en Martelaarschappen van de Vaderen, die ten tijde van de Apostelen, of straks na deselve hebben geleefd: Gelyk ook Van de voornaamste Vaders in de drie eerste Eeuwen. Met een Inleyding, rakende den voortgang der Christelijke Religie, en de Tien vervolgingen tegen deselve. Waar is bygevoegd een Tyd-Rekening, behelsende De Keysers, Burgermeesters, en de Kerkelijke geschiedenissen in die Eeuwen. Door William Cave, SS. Theol. Doct. en Ordinaris Kapellaan van sijn Majestett. Na de derde verbeterde Druk uyt het Engels vertaald door S. B. [Engraved vignette] Te Utrecht, 1698

BIOGRAPHY:

William Cave (1637-1713) English Anglican theologian, scholar, writer, eloquent preacher, Chaplain to Charles II, Canon of Windsor, known for Apostolici, and the Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria.

Herman Witsius (1636-1708), Dutch Protestant theologian, professor, pastor, expositor of federal theology, wrote De oeconomia foederum Dei cum hominibus, Judaeus christianizans and Miscellanea sacra.

Salomon Bor (1639-1705), Dutch Reformed theologian, translator and editor, minister of the Church at Ter Aa, best known for translations produced for numerous works, including William Cave’s Apostolici.

CONTENTS:

Apostolische Oudheden, 1698

Opdragt, Salomon Bor

Opdragts-Brief (dedication), William Cave

Voorreden, H. Wits

Oeffening, H. Wits

Poem, F. Halma

Ben Vertoog Van de drie groote Bedeelingen der Kerke, onder de Patriarchen, Moses en het Euangelium, zynde een inleyding tot het geheele werk—Eerste, Tweede, Derde

Petrus Apostel

Andreas, Apostel

Jacobus de Groote

Johannes, Apostel en Euangelist*

Philippus, Apostel

Bartholomevs, Apostel

Matthevs, Apostel en Euangelist

Thomas, Apostel

Jacobus de Kleyne

Simon Zelotes

Judas

Matthias, Apostel

Markvs, Euangelist

Lvkas, Evangelist

Korte Aanwysing en Naam – Register van de Apostelen en hunne Navolgers

Bladwyser der saken in de algemeene Inleyding des gantschen Werks

Apostolische Mannen, 1698

Aan Den Leser

Aanwyser

Inleyding

Stephanus

Philippus, Diaken en Euangelist

Barnabas, Apostel

Timotheus, Apostel en Euangelist

Titus, Bisschop van Creta

Dionysius, de Areopagiter

Clemens, Bisschop van Romen

Simeon, Bisschop van Jerusalem

Ignatius, Bisschop van Antiochien

Polycarpus, Bisschop van Smyrna

Quadratus, Bisschop van Athenen

Justinus, de Martelaar

Ireneus, Bisschop van Lyons

Theophilus, Bisschop van Antiochien

Melito, Bisschop van Sardis

Pantenus, Catechist tot Alexandrien

Clemens, Cathechist en Ouderling te Alexandrien

Tertullianus, Ouderling van Carthago

Origenes, Ouderling en Cathechist te Alexandrien

Babylas, Bisschop van Antiochien

Cyprianus, Bisschop van Carthago

Gregorius, Thaumaturgus genaamd, Bisschop van Neo-Cesareën

Dionysius, Bisschop van Alexandrien

Tyd-Aanwysing van de Roomsche Keysers, Burgermeesters en Kerkelyke Saken in de Drie eerste Eeuwen der Christen Kerk

(Chronological three-column table — numbered 1 to 300 — from page 347 to 376.)

Bladwyser der voornaamste saken in het leven van de Apostolische Mannen

PLATES:

Engraved title page*

Apostolische Oudheden

1. Petrus Apostel

2. Andreas, Apostel

3. Johannes, Apostel en Euangelist*

4. Philippus, Apostel

5. Bartholomevs, Apostel

6. Matthevs, Apostel en Euangelist

7. Thomas, Apostel

8. Matthias, Apostel

9. Markvs, Euangelist

10. Lvkas, Evangelist

Apostolische Mannen

11. Stephanus, eerste Martelaar

12. Philippus, Diaken en Euangelist

13. Barnabas, Apostel

14. Timotheus, Apostel en Euangelist

15. Titus, Bisschop van Creta

16. Dionysius, de Areopagiter

17. Clemens, Bisschop van Romen

18. Simeon, Bisschop van Jerusalem*

19. Ignatius, Bisschop van Antiochien

20. Polycarpus, Bisschop van Smyrna

21. Quadratus, Bisschop van Athenen

22. Justinus, de Martelaar

23. Theophilus, Bisschop van Antiochien

24. Pantenus, Catechist tot Alexandrien

25. Clemens, Cathechist en Ouderling te Alexandrien

26. Origenes, Ouderling en Cathechist te Alexandrien

27. Cyprianus, Bisschop van Carthago*

28. Gregorius, Thaumaturgus genaamd, Bisschop van Neo-Cesareën

* Shown in listing pictures

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

12 ½” x 7 ¾” x 2 ¾”

5 lbs 4 ounces

861 pages

(16) + 47 + (12) + 370 + (14) + (4) + 10 + (2) + 376 + (10)

Pagination includes engraved title page.

Full calf with boards that are detached, rubbed, scuffed and worn at edges; spine has six raised bands. Backstrip is scuffed, with gilt rules and gilt title on red panel: Apostolische Oudbeden.

Front paste-down bookplate: Peter Hertzog Theological Hall Library. Front free endpaper is lacking; back free endpaper and last two leaves of text are attached to back board. The two preceding leaves of text are detached, creased and chipped at edges. The dedication leaf lacks part of the tail fore-corner area; a fifth or so of the text affected.

A plate appears to have been excised from between pages 340 and 341 of the first work, the section on Judas, as well as from the section on Ireneus in the second work, between pages 202 and 203, and Tertullianus between 240 and 241 (page 241 is detached as a result). Plate 22 has a four inch tear at top near joint.

Binding is otherwise tight, no loose, missing, bent or torn pages other than noted; some small edge chips, creases and tears. Leaves have little foxing, some age tone in places; no significant fading or offset. Page edges are speckled; includes detached pink cloth placeholder.

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This book is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne, antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.