Folio. 226 leaves collating in sixes and in fours, woodcut device on the title-page.
This edition not in Brunet.
Graesse II, 198.
Dibdin I, 188.
Calf; many leaves foxed, some margins cut away. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. From the library of Wm. Cocke, with
his autograph signature on the title[.] Other manuscript inscriptions and notes.
Clement of Alexandria, born about 150, Greek anti-Nicene Father of the Church.
For a note on Sylburg, see no. 48.
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J. 122
Clemens Alexandrinus.
Gr.
Lat. Heinsii.
fol. Lut. Par.
1641. (4)
1815 Catalogue, page 64. no. 179, as above.
CLEMENT
of Alexandria.
Κλημεντος Αλεξανδρεως τα Ευρισκομενα. Clementis Alexandrini Opera
græce et
latine qvæ extant. Post accvratam Danielis Heinsii recensionem . . . Accedunt diuersæ lectiones & emendationes . . . à Friderico Sylbvrgio collectæ . . .
Lvtetiæ Parisorvm: Typis
Regijs,
m. dc. xxxxi
. [1641]
BR65 .C6 1641
Folio. 510 leaves collating in sixes; woodcut Lutetia ship device on the title-page; title printed in red and black;
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns.
Graesse II, 198.
Dibdin I, 188.
Old calf. Not initialled by Jefferson. With the armorial bookplate:
Ex Cata
go Bibliothecæ Cavmartin
. Manuscript notes. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson may have obtained this with his inheritance from George Wythe; some of the notes appear to be in his hand.
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J. 123
Origen contra Celsum et de amore pulchri.
4
to.
(5)
1815 Catalogue, page 66. no. 161, as above.
ORIGEN.
Ωριγενης κατα Κελσου εν Τομοις η. . . . Origenis contra Celsum Libri octo: Ejusdem Philocalia. Gulielmus Spencerus, Cantabrigiensis, Collegii Trinitatis Socius, utriusq; operis versionem recognovit, & Annotationes adjecit. Accedunt item
notæ Davidis Hoeschelii in octo Libros Origenis, unà cum notis Jo. Tarini in Philocaliam. Cum indice rerum & verborum locupletissimo.
Cantabrigiæ: excudebat
Joan. Hayes, celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographus. Impensis
Guli. Morden, Bibliopolæ,
m. dc. lxxvii
. [1677]
BT1116 .O6 A3
4to. 3 parts in 1, with continuous signatures and separate pagination, 346 leaves; publisher’s advertisement on the last page,
title-page printed in red and black,
Latin and
Greek text in parallel columns. The title-page for
Origiensis Philokalia, with imprint dated 1676 on sig. Iii
4, and the half-title for
Gulielmi Spenceri Annotationes on Aaaa
2.
Graesse V, 46.
STC O425.
Bowes 160.
This edition not in Dibdin.
Old calf, repaired at joints. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Jefferson quoted from the works of Origen, in Latin, in letters on science and religion to John Adams (in 1820), and to Augustus B. Woodward (in 1824).
Contra Celsum was written in 248 in reply to the polemic against Christianity of the Greek Celsus.
Philocalia was compiled from the works of Origen by Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus.
William Spencer, c. 1630-1713-14, [
i.e. “1713/14”--
Ed.] English scholar. His first edition of Origen was printed in Cambridge in 1658.
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