Title: An Essay upon two Arabick Manuscripts of the Bodlejan Library, And that Ancient Book, call'd, the Doctrine of the Apostles, Which is said to be extant in them; Wherein Mr. Whiston's Mistakes about both are plainly prov'd By John Ernest Grabe […]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full title:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> An Essay upon two Arabick Manuscripts of the Bodlejan Library,
And that Ancient Book, call'd, the Doctrine of the Apostles, Which is said to
be extant in them; Wherein Mr. Whiston's Mistakes about both are plainly prov'd
By John Ernest Grabe, D. D. The Second Edition.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span lang="nl-be" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="nl-be">8vo. f.
</span><span lang="nl-be" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;" xml:lang="nl-be">[1] (blank) pp. [8], x,
78. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" xml:lang="fr">Signatures: A⁴, a⁴, B-L⁴. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Press
figures in gatherings A, C-E, and I-L. Perhaps printed by William Bowyer. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">In
modern marbled boards. Manuscript bibliographical note on first blank.
Manuscript notes on p. 78 upper margin: “CT”, “I:7a.” In English, with some
Arabic.</span></p><p></p>

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<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;color:#212529;">This work is part of a 1711-1712 dispute William Whiston (1667-1752)
had with his fellow theologian Johann Ernest Grabe (1666-1711) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">(see Bib#
4102654-4102657/Fr# 86-89 in this collection)<span style="color:#212529;"> about
</span>the ‘Clementina’, or forgeries of near-eastern travels, and ‘Apostolic
Constitutions’, attributed to Clemens Romanus, or pseudo-Clemens (Pope Clement
I), which survive in his largely apocryphal Opera (1562, see Bib# 4102652/Fr#
84) and De constitutionibus apostolicis (first complete Latin edition, 1563
(Bib# 4102653/Fr# 85).</span></p><p></p>

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