Dionysii Petauii Aurelianensis è Societate Iesu Rationarium temporum in partes duas, libros tredecim tributum : in quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur.
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Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, viâ Iacobaeâ, sub Ciconiis,
1634.
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| Edition: | Editio secunda noue ordine digesta, ac multis accessionibus auctior facta, & ab auctore recognita. |
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| Item Description: | Second ed. of the monumental chronological work by the celebrated Jesuit scholar Denis Petau, who intended his work to replace Joseph Scaliger's standard work of world chronology, De emendatione temporum, first printed in Paris in 1583, which Petau criticizes throughout. Title vignette; ornamental woodcut initials; head-pieces; roman and italic types; marginal references. First and second parts have separate t.p., pagination, and signatures. Dedicatory epistle to Louis XIII of France on p. [3]-[12] of v. 1. Vol. 2 has title: "Dionysii Petauii Aurelianensis è Societate Iesu Rationarii temporum pars secunda, quae est....: hoc est chronologiae methodum, & historicorum temporum argumenta probationesque continet." Includes indexes. Errata: v. 1: p. [106] of third sequence; v. 2: p. [11] at end. Signatures: v. 1: ā¹² A-Mm¹² Nn² [$6 signed (-A₁, N₁)]; v. 2: ā⁴A-N¹² O⁸ [$6 signed]. Contemporary brown calf boards, with double-ruled gilt borders on upper and lower covers; spine rebacked in brown leather, with gold-stamped spine ornaments and spine title "Petau. Ratio. temporum"; edges sprinkled red. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 v. in 1 ([24], 738 , [106]; [8], 315, [13] p.) ; 15 cm. (12mo) |