Title: Antonii van Dale Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX interpretibus
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Full title:</b>Antonii van Dale Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX interpretibus: Cui ipsius prætensi Aristeæ textus subjungitur. Additur Historia baptismorum, Cum Judaicorum, tum potissimum priorum Christianorum, tum denique &amp; rituum nonnullorum, &amp;c. Accedit et Dissertatio super Sanchoniathone.


</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4to. ff. [1] (blank), [8], pp. 506. Signatures: *-**⁴ ***² A-Rrr⁴ Sss². Contemporary vellum. Brown gilt lettering panel. Freeman (AJF) stamp. Green satin bookmark. Printer's device on title page. Title page printed in red and black. In Roman and Italic characters. Engraved initials. Head-and tailpieces. Includes errata list at end. "Aristeae historia LXXII interpretum" and "Historia baptismorum, cum Hebraicorum tum Christianorum" have separate title pages. Text of Aristæus in Greek and Latin, some quotations in Hebrew. Stamp of Hyacinth College and Seminar, Cranby, Mass.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dutch preacher, writer, and physician Anthonie van Dale (1638-1708) spent much of the final decade of his life on writing the present work, a Latin history of baptism, centering on imposture and deceit in Aristeas’s Letter to Philocrates. The work adds to Scaliger’s denunciation in his Thesaurus, with the full text. Also treats pseudo-Sanchuniathon (Canon 1; see Bib# 438010/Fr# 50 in this collection).
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