1644 1ed Calvinist Puritan Bible Dictionary Thesaurus Biblicus Richard Bernard

“There is a kind of smiling and joyful laughter which may stand with the best man’s piety.”

– Richard Bernar

Richard Bernard was 16th-century English Calvinist Puritan whose nonconformist sermons led him to form his own congregation of separatists in the early 17th-century, even though he wrote many book against church Separation. Bernard also composed ‘Thesaurus Biblicus,’ a thesaurus and dictionary designed for clarifying Bible reading and understanding scripture.

This 1644 first edition features a full-page engraved portrait of Richard Bernard engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Item number: #2664

Price: $750

BERNARD, Richard

Thesaurus biblicus, seu promptuarium sacrum : whereunto are added all the marginall readings, with the words of the text, and many words in the text expounded by the text, all alphabetically set downe throughout the Bible : in the end is annexed an abstract of the principal mattters [sic] in the Holy Scripture

[London] : Imprinted by Felix Kingston, and are to be sold at his House in Pater-Noster-Row, at the Signe of the Gilded Cock, 1644. First edition.

Details:

•Collation complete with all pages: [490], 176, [2]

oSeparate title page:

“The bibles abstract and epitome” by George Miller; 1642.

oSignatures: A-Qq6, Rr4, Ss6 (Ss6 blank is removed), Aaa-Yyy4, [Zzz2].

oComplete with portrait engraved frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar

•References: Wing B 2035A; Wing B 2023; ESTC R 38697

•Provenance: Handwritten – Alex Mather [Price], April 18th, 1776

•Language: English

•Binding: Leather; tight & secure

•Size: ~11.25in X 8in (28.5cm x 20cm)

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