Mosheim, D.D. And Chancellor of the University of Gottingen. Translated from the original
Latin, And accompanied with Notes and Chronological Tables, by Archibald Maclaine, D.D. In
Six Volumes. To the whole is added An Accurate Index. A New Edition. Vol. I. [-VI.]
London: Printed for
T. Cadell.
M DCCLXXXII. [1782.]
BR145 .M8
6 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 232 leaves; vol. II, 296 leaves; vol. III, 244 leaves; vol. IV, 266 leaves; vol. V, 261 leaves; vol. VI,
208 leaves, all collating in eights.
Sprinkled calf; initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, and with one of his blue silk book marks preserved. In vol. VI,
page 153, the roman numerals VII are crossed through, and
7th is written in ink above, not by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
This edition not in Lowndes, who cites several editions, including one of 1783.
The Chronological Tables begin in Vol. VI, page 139, and are printed in parallel columns. The interesting entries include:
In the year 1492,
Christopher Columbus opens a passage into
America, by the discovery of the islands of
Hispaniola,
Cuba and
Jamaica.
The University of
Caen in
Normandy is founded by the English in 1437.
The Portuguese sail, for the first time, to the
East-Indies, under
Vasquez de Gama.
1448. The art of printing, with moveable
wooden types, is invented by
Coster at
Harlem; and the farther improvements of this admirable art are owing to
Gensfleisch and
Guttemberg
[
sic
--
Ed.
] of
Mentz. and
Schoeffer of
Strassburg . . .
The first book printed with types of metal; which was the
Vulgate Bible, published at
Mentz in 1450; a second edition of the same book was published at
Mentz in 1642 [sic, should be 1462], and has been mistaken for the first.
This book frequently has a place on Jefferson’s recommended reading lists.
Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, 1694-1755, German Lutheran divine and church historian. The Institutionum historiæ ecclesiasticæ libri IV, of which this
book is a translation, was first published in 1726.
Archibald Maclaine, 1722-1804, Scottish divine, published the first edition of his translation in 1765.
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Anglia Sacra Whartoni.
2. v.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 27. no. 23, as above.
WHARTON,
Henry.
Anglia Sacra, sive Collectio Historiarum, Partim antiquitas, partim recenter scriptarum, de Archiepiscopis & Episcopis Angliæ,
A prima Fidei Christianæ susceptione ad Annum MDXL. Nunc primùm in Lucem editarum. Pars Prima [Secunda] . . .
Londini: Impensis
Richardi Chiswel ad Insigne Rosæ Coronatæ . . .
1691.
BR746 .W5
First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. vol. I, 438 leaves; vol. II, 376 leaves; engraved arms of the Archbishop of Canterbury as the frontispiece
of vol. I, engraved
Rosæ Coronatæ device on both title-pages.
Lowndes V, page 2884.
Hazlitt III, page 75.
STC W1560
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
24-0.
Henry Wharton, 1664-1695, English divine and author.
Anglia Sacra is a collection of the lives of the English archbishops and bishops down to the year 1540, partly compiled by himself and
partly edited by him from earlier writings. Among his manuscript collections at the Lambeth Library is a life by him of Captain
John Smith, 1580-1631, q.v.
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