| Ref No | EFP/094/1684/68 |
| Finding Number | AF 094/1684/68 |
| Title | Antiquitates christianæ: or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus : as also the lives, acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles. In two parts. The first part, containing The life of Christ, written by Jer. Taylor, late Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. The second, containing The lives of the Apostles, with an enumeration, and some brief remarks upon their first successours in the five great apostolical churches, by William Cave, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty. By whom also is added an apparatus, or discourse introductory to the whole work, concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1684 |
| Description | Antiquitates christianæ; Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution; Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour; The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian tradition; Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour; History of the life and death of the Holy Jesus; Life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ; Lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour; Apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work, concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical
With an additional engraved title page following the frontispiece, counted in the preliminary pagination.; "The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus" is in three parts, each with a separate dated title page, parts 2 and 3 dated 1683; the whole preceded by a general title page reading in part, "The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution; .. The seventh edition." Part 1 has added caption title on p. 1: The life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ.; "Antiquitates Apostolicæ: or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy Apostles of our Saviour", by William Cave, has separate pagination and register and a separate title page dated 1684, lacking an edition statement. It may also have been published separately.; "An apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work", by William Cave, is headed by a caption title on p. I.; Each book includes an imprimatur dated Feb. 25. 1674.; "The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life" includes a frontispiece portrait of Jeremy Taylor, a preface entitled, "An exhortation to the imitation of the life of Christ", and an index.; Identified as Wing T346 on UMI "Early English books, 1641-1700", microfilm reel 1131, which has "The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life" only.; The text of "Antiquitates Apostolicæ" is complete despite the pagination.; Signatures: *[sup]4[sup] a-c[sup]6[sup] d[sup]8[sup] A-2S[sup]6, [sup]2A-2B[sup]4[sup] [sup]22C[sup]2.; Antiquitates christianæ.; History of the life and death of the Holy Jesus.; Life of our blessed lord and saviour Jesus Christ.; Lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.; Apparatus or discourse introductory to the whole work, concerning the three great dispensations of the church, patriarchal, Mosaical, and evangelical.; Microfilm.; R217592.
The seventh edition. |
| Author | Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667; Cave, William, 1637-1713 |
| Subject | Jesus Christ -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Bible. N.T; Apostles -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Fathers of the church -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 |
| Physical Description | [10], LI, [11], XXVI, vii, [3], 432, [12]; [8], xiv, 162, 169-188 p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. (ports.) ; 2j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : printed by J. Macock, and M. Flesher, for R. Royston, bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty, anno Dom. MDCLXXXIV. [1684] |