Title: The ancient history of the Septuagint. Written in Greek by Aristeus near two thousand years ago. Being His Voyage to Jerusalem, as Ambassadour from Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews
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;"> <span style="color:#212529;">The ancient history of the
Septuagint. </span><span style="color:#212529;">Written in Greek by Aristeus
near two thousand years ago. Being His Voyage to Jerusalem, as Ambassadour from
Ptolomæus Philadelphus, unto Eleazar, then High Priest of the Jews: concerning
the First Translation of the Holy Bible by the Seventy two Interpreters. With
many other remarkable Circumstances, no where else to be found. First English'd
from the Greek, by the Learned and Reverend Dr. John Done, late Dean of St.
Pauls. Now Revised, and very much Corrected from the Original.</span></span><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;"></span></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;background:#FFFFFF;">12mo. [2] blank leaves, [12], 192 pages, [1]
blank leaf</span>. Signatures: A-I<sup>12</sup>. <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Calf. Tooled spine and boards. Macclesfield
North Library bookplate and embossures with manuscript press mark, dated 1860.
First blank is loose. Manuscript “2” on in ink and ruled border on title page.</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;">Second,
revised and corrected edition of the translation of pseudo-Aristeas’s ficticious
letter on the Septuagint, wrongly attributed to the poet John Donne or his son.
The first edition was published in 1633 (see Bib# 690536/Fr# 71 in this
collection). See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books
Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2<sup>nd</sup>
ed.), A3682; English Short Title Catalogue online, R12295; E. Havens, “Babelic
Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp;
E. Havens (eds.), <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, </span><span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">Baltimore, </span><span style="color:#212529;">2018, pp. 42-44.</span></span><span style="color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;"></span></span></p><p></p>

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