TERTULLIEN
Opera D. Septimii Florentis Tertulliani Carthagensis
Apud Carolam Guillard|Lutetiae Parisiorum [Paris] • [Parisiis] [Paris] 1545|22 x 32.50 cm|relié
Edition of the works of Tertullian produced by Jean de Gagny and Martin Mesnart, according to 2 notes on the verso of the title. Fine printer's device on title page. This edition contains 11 more treatises than previous editions of Tertullian's works, two of which, entitled "De Trinitate" and "De cibis judaicis", are actually by Novatian. Edition whose privilege was shared with Jean de Roigny. Adams T408. Notes and life of Tertullian by Beatus Rhenanus. This edition is based on that produced by Beatus Rhenanus in 1539 in Basel.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Smooth spine with raised bands. Head worn with cracks to joints. Damage to first raised band. Corners slightly bumped. Dampstains in central and top margins throughout the work, quite light, then fading, then returning. On the last 50 pages, dampstain on half the leaves, rather light and not troublesome, more pronounced on the last index leaves. Leaves 3 to 7 restored with a strip of paper mending a tear. Some manuscript notes in the margins.
He who was considered the greatest theologian of his time came from a Berber family, and was moreover the first theologian from North Africa. He died around 220 in Carthage, but was never canonized by the church since he joined a heretical movement, the Montanists, at the end of his life. His work is remarkable; it is with him, truly, that Latin theology begins, and the thought of the Trinity, of which he employs the term for the first time. He thus affirms the unity of God in three persons, and that Christ is both God and man, composed of 2 substances. This theological thought, as we know, would have an immense future. His treatises address different subjects: On Patience, On the Flesh of Christ, On the Resurrection, On the Soul, Against the Jews, On the Trinity... Among them are found a certain number of polemical works.
Contemporary full brown calf binding. Smooth spine with raised bands. Head worn with cracks to joints. Damage to first raised band. Corners slightly bumped. Dampstains in central and top margins throughout the work, quite light, then fading, then returning. On the last 50 pages, dampstain on half the leaves, rather light and not troublesome, more pronounced on the last index leaves. Leaves 3 to 7 restored with a strip of paper mending a tear. Some manuscript notes in the margins.
He who was considered the greatest theologian of his time came from a Berber family, and was moreover the first theologian from North Africa. He died around 220 in Carthage, but was never canonized by the church since he joined a heretical movement, the Montanists, at the end of his life. His work is remarkable; it is with him, truly, that Latin theology begins, and the thought of the Trinity, of which he employs the term for the first time. He thus affirms the unity of God in three persons, and that Christ is both God and man, composed of 2 substances. This theological thought, as we know, would have an immense future. His treatises address different subjects: On Patience, On the Flesh of Christ, On the Resurrection, On the Soul, Against the Jews, On the Trinity... Among them are found a certain number of polemical works.
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