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ipsius prætensi Aristeæ textus subjungitur. Additur Historia Baptismorum, cum Judaicorum, tum potissimum priorum Christianorum, tum denique & rituum nonnullorum, &c. Accedit et Dissertatio super Sanchoniathone. Amstelædami: apud Joannem Wolters, 1705.
BS44 .A8 D3
First Edition. 4to. 264 leaves, title printed in red and black; engraved device.
Van der Aa IV, 26.
Original vellum (sig. Ff misbound); with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Ordered by Jefferson on March 18, 1788, from Van Damme of Amsterdam, no. 3362 in a catalogue supplied by him. Billed on June 25, price 7-10. Entered at this price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Antonius Van Dale, 1638-1708, Dutch scholar.
Aristeas, who described himself as a gentile Greek, was an Alexandrian Jew who lived under one of the later Ptolemies. He was the author of a letter which described the origin of the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament and which caused a literary controversy.
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Ignatii et Barnabae epistolae Gr. Lat. p. 4 to. Lond. 1680.
1815 Catalogue, page 65. no. 81, as above.
ST. IGNATIUS.
S. Ignatii Martyris; Epistolæ Genuinæ ex Bibliotheca Florentina: adduntur S. Ignatii Epistolæ, quales vulgo circumferuntur. Ad hæc S. Barnabæ Epistola. Accessit universis Translatio vetus. Edidit & Notas addidit Isaacus Vossius. Editio Secunda. Londini: Typis Joannis Gellibrand & Roberti Sollers, 1680.
BR65 .I3
4to. 160 leaves; Greek and Latin in parallel columns, title-page in black and red; separate title on Dd 1 for Catholica Barnabae Epistola.
Lowndes III, 1158.
STC I39.
Dibdin I, 178.
St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch and one of the Apostolic Fathers. This recension of his Epistolæ is known as the Vossian.
The Epistolæ of St. Barnabas, Apostle, is one of the Apocryphal books of the New Testament.
Isaac Vossius, 1618-1689, canon of Windsor, was born in Leyden. His edition of St. Ignatius, first published in 1646, is based on a manuscript preserved in the Medicean Library at Florence.
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Censura scriptorum supposititiorum. R. Coco. Lond. 1614. }

Usserius de LXX. et liber Estherae. Lond. 1655. } p. 4 to.

Clementis ad Corinthios epistolae. Gr. Lat. Junii. Oxon. 1633. }
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 82, as above.
Three tracts bound together in calf by an early owner, who has written a numbered list of the contents on the inside cover, giving each of the four parts of the second tract (by James Ussher) a separate number; the authors listed in ink on the fore-edge. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
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Censura scriptorum suppositiorum. [ sic -- Ed. ] R. Coco. Lond. 1614.
i. COOKE, Robert.
Censvra qvorvndam Scriptorvm, qvæ svb Nominibvs sanctorvm et Vetervm avctorvm, à Pontificijs passim in eorum scriptis, sed potissimùm in quæstionibus hodie controuersis citari solent. In qua ostenditur, scripta illa, vel esse supposi-

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