Album containing 122 engravings by Stukeley, many in proof, assembled by the artist himself. Contents include 85 engravings from Itinerarium Curiosum and 23 from Stonehenge, a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids.
Franciscus a Sancta Clara, 1598-1680 Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
Published / Created:
1632]
Call Number:
Me65 G916 D3G
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
De veritate religionis christianae. English
Description:
Added t.-p. engraved, illus., Printed title-page wanting; title taken from the Folger library card. Subsequently supplied in photostat from copy in New York Society Library., Signatures: 3 l. unsigned, A8B-P12Q8 (Q7 misprinted R; Q8 blank)., and Translated by Christopher Davenport (known as Franciscus a Santa Clara, or Francis Coventry).
Publisher:
Printed by I.H. for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at his shop in Ivy lane next the Exchequer office,
Followed by two letters by Silvester, patriarch of Antioch to an English merchant, 1733 (leaf 12 recto) and 1732 (leaf 13 recto), and an edict of the synod (majmaʻ) of Constantinople against Euthymius Ṣayfī, bishop of Tyre and Sidon, 1718 (leaf 18 verso). and Polemical correspondence with an English merchant named Sherman (?), in 1734.
Description:
Fair 18th century naskhī, in red and black., For the author see Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, III, 134., Islamic binding, in black., No. 4 of 5 titles bound together., On Euthymius Ṣayfī see Graf, III, 179., and Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
Subject (Name):
Euthymius Ṣayfī,--Bishop of Tyre and Sidon, Sherman, and Silvester, Patriarch of Antioch, d. 1766