Antiquitates christianae: or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus: as also the lives, acts & 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

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  • Antiquitates christianae: or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus: as also the lives, acts & 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
  • Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution; History of the life and death of the holy Jesus; Antiquitates apostolicae: or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour
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Imprint
London : printed by E. Flesher and R. Norton, for R. Royston, bookseller to His most sacred Majesty, anno Dom. MDCLXXVIII. [1678]
Added name
Cave, William, 1637-1713; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.; Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, engraver.
Publication year
1678
ESTC No.
R14299
Grub Street ID
62336
Description
[8], LI, [13], XXVI, vii, [3], 432, [20], XIII, [1], 176 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 2°.
Note
Title page in red and black

Frontis. and additional engraved title page (plates) signed by William Faithorne

Imprimatur on leaf [par.]4v: Imprimatur. Tho. Tomkyns. Ex AEdib. Lambeth. Feb. 25. 1674

Portrait of Jeremy Taylor (A1v) signed: P. Lombart sculpsit

"The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution;" has separate dated title page, pagination and register

"The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus:" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous from "The great exemplar"

The second and third parts of "The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus:" each have separate dated title page on leaves R2r and 2E4r; pagination and register are continuous from "The great exemplar"

Includes index

"Antiquitates apostolicae: or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour." (C1588A) has separate dated title page, pagination and register

A variant edition (Wing T287aA) differs slightly in vertical typeset spacing and rules. Most notably, variant has imprint date which did not print completely, making it appear to read 'M DC LXXVII .'

"Antiquitates apostolicae" filmed separately as Wing C1588A on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1225.