A new history of ecclesiastical writers
Subtitle: containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament : of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers : an abridgment and catalogue of their works, their various editions, and censures determining the genuine and spurious : together with a judgment upon their style and doctrine : also, a compendious history of the Councils : with chronological tables of the whole
By: written in French by Lewis Ellies Du Pin ... ; carefully revised, and much improved, with proper remarks and notes throughout, by W.W. B.D. ...
Contributors: Wotton, William, 1666-1727.; Lawson, John, M.D. (bookplate); Wynne, Edward, 1681-1755 (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed for Abell Swalle and Tim. Childe ...
Published: 1692
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Church history.; Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.; Christian literature -- Bio-bibliography.; Literature, Medieval -- Bio-bibliography.
Other titles: Bibliotheca patrum, or, A new history of ecclesiasticall writers
Work titles: Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques.
Notes: Added engr. t.p. signed.

Edited by William Wotton.

Vols. 2-6 have title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers : containing an account of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers : a judicious abridgment and catalogue of their works ...

Vol. 2: Printed by J. Leake ...; v. 3: by J.H. ...; v. 4: by Edw. Jones ...; v. 5: by F. Collins ...; v. 6: by H. Clark ...

Vol. 4 also called v. 3, pt. 2; v. 5 also called v. 4; v. 6 also called v. 5.

Translation of: Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques.

Includes indexes.

Wing D2643, D2645B, D2645D, D2645F, D2645H, D2645J.

Fisher Knox copy: Vol. 1, with the bookplate of John Lawson, M.D., 1705; and vol. 2, with the armorial bookplate of Edward Wynne, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford [Franks 31631].
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Four first ages (1692).; value: v. 2. 4th age (1693).; value: v. 3. Begin. of the 5th cent. (1693).; value: v. 4. Latter part of the 5th cent. (1693).; value: v. 5. 6th cent. (1693).; value: v. 6. 7th and 8th cent. (1693).