new history of ecclesiastical writers
Subtitle: containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament; and the lives and writings of the primitive fathers; an abridgment and catalogue of all their works; censures determining the genuine and spurious. A judgment upon their style and doctrine and the various editions of their writings: to which is added a compendious history of the councils and many necessary tables and indexes
By: written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Contributors: Wotton, William, 1666-1727 tr.; Hopton, Richard, 1683 or 4-1764, former owner.; Everett, Dolly, fl. 1816, former owner.
Edition: 3d ed., corrected.
Publisher: Printed for Abel Swalle and Timothy Childe
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Church history -- Bio-bibliography.; Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.; Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.; Literature, Medieval -- Bio-bibliography.
Genres: Bio-bibliography.
Work titles: Bibliothèque universelle des auteurs ecclésiastiques.
Notes: Covers the period from the first age of the church to the 15th century.

Vols. 2-6 have title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers: containing an account of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers ... ; v. 7-13: A new ecclesiastical history; containing an account of the controversies in religion; the lives and writings of ecclesiastical authors ...

Translated by William Wotton.

Includes bibliography and index.

Burns Library RARE collection copy: inscriptions on t.p. of v. 1: "E libris Sam.lis Disne[i?][y?] de Wakefield, bought at an auction in Wakefield, 1736" and "Jo. Turner".

Burns Library GENERAL collection copy: armorial bookplate of Richard Hopton of Can[non] Frome, in the County of Hereford, Esqr.

Burns Library GENERAL collection copy 2: autograph: Dolly Everett's, 1816.

Burns Library GENERAL collection copy 2: vols. 1-10 bound together in 4 vols.

Burns Library RARE collection copy: bound together in 4 vols. Numbering on spine of last vol. in error: 11-12.