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Beza, Theodore Iesu Christi D.N. Novum testamentum, sive novum foedus. Cuis graeco contextui respondent interpretationes duae: una, vetus; altera, nova, Theodori Beze, diligenter ab eo recognita. Eiusdem Th. Bezae annotationes ... Responsio eiusdem ad Seb. Castellionem
1582 Full Leather Very Good Plus Full Leather
This listing is for an incredibly rare edition of Theodore Beza's Annotated New Testament, written in both Greek and Latin. Here we have the original leaves bound in a 19th century leather binding with elaborate gilt tooling, marbled page edges and extremely fine, high quality boards. There are 4 dual raised bands on the spine and elaborate designs on both boards and the spine. The full title of the book is "Iesu Christi D.N. Novum testamentum, sive novum foedus. Cuis graeco contextui respondent interpretationes duae: una, vetus; altera, nova, Theodori Beze, diligenter ab eo recognita. Eiusdem Th. Bezae annotationes ... Responsio eiusdem ad Seb. Castellionem, in qua multi Novi Testamenti & harum in ipsum annotationum loci accuratissime excutiuntur seorsum excusa prostat ..." ANNO MDLXXXII This is the annotated version of the Greek New Testament called the Bezae Codex which was written in 1550. That book is extraordinarily rare and valuable, selling for upwards of $20,000. Here you have an incredible opportunity to own a book which you most likely will never see again unless you closely follow the best international auction houses for the next 5 years. We are selling this book for close friends of the store, and we recently sold their Walton/Polyglot Biblia Sacra Polyglotta for upwards of $7,000 so we can be trusted to present our items accurately and honestly. There is light wear to the boards, as seen in the photos. The bottom 1.5"-2" of both boards is becoming tender and lightly cracked/separated, as shown below, however both boards continue to be solidly attached and will not need repair if this volume is treated with respect. The endpapers are a basic gray, as shown below, and there are some notes written in pencil on the verso of the first blank leaf. The corners are lightly rubbed, along with the foot of the spine. Theodore Beza (Théodore de Bèze or de Besze) (June 24, 1519 October 13, 1605) was a FrenchProtestantChristiantheologian and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. A member of the monarchomaque movement who opposed absolute monarchy, he was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Switzerland. Humanistic and historical writings In Beza's literary activity as well as in his life, distinction must be made between the period of the humanist (which ended with the publication of his Juvenilia) and that of the ecclesiastic. Combining his pastoral and literary gifts, Beza wrote the first drama produced in French, Abrahm Sacrifiant; a play that is an antecedent to the work of Racine and is still occasionally produced today. Later productions like the humanistic, biting, satirical Passavantius and his Complainte de Messire Pierre Lizet... prove that in later years he occasionally went back to his first love. In his old age he published his Cato censorius (1591), and revised his Poemata, from which he purged juvenile eccentricities. Of his historiographical works, aside from his Icones (1580), which have only an iconographical value, mention may be made of the famous Histoire ecclesiastique des Eglises reformes au Royaume de France (1580), and his biography of Calvin, with which must be named his edition of Calvin's Epistolae et responsa (1575). [edit] Theological works But all these humanistic and historical studies are surpassed by his theological productions (contained in Tractationes theologicae). In these Beza appears the perfect pupil or the alter ego of Calvin. His view of life is deterministic and the basis of his religious thinking is the predestinate recognition of the necessity of all temporal existence as an effect of the absolute, eternal, and immutable will of God, so that even the fall of the human race appears to him essential to the divine plan of the world. Beza, in tabular form, thoroughly elucidates the religious views which emanated from a fundamental supralapsarian mode of thought. This he added to his highly instructive treatise Summa totius Christianismi. Beza's De vera excommunicatione et Christiano presbyterio (1590), written as a response to Thomas Erastus's Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis utrum excommunicatio (1589) contributed an important defense of the right of ecclesiastical authorities (rather than civil authorities) to excommunicate. [edit] Beza's Greek New Testament Of no less importance are the contributions of Beza to Biblical science. In 1565 he issued an edition of the Greek New Testament, accompanied in parallel columns by the text of the Vulgate and a translation of his own (already published as early as 1556). Annotations were added, also previously published, but now he greatly enriched and enlarged them. In the preparation of this edition of the Greek text, but much more in the preparation of the second edition which he brought out in 1582, Beza may have availed himself of the help of two very valuable manuscripts. One is known as the Codex Bezae or Cantabrigensis, and was later presented by Beza to the University of Cambridge; the second is the Codex Claromontanus, which Beza had found in Clermont (now in the National Library at Paris). It was not, however, to these sources that Beza was chiefly indebted, but rather to the previous edition of the eminent Robert Estienne (1550), itself based in great measure upon one of the later editions of Erasmus. Beza's labors in this direction were exceedingly helpful to those who came after. The same thing may be asserted with equal truth of his Latin version and of the copious notes with which it was accompanied. The former is said to have been published over a hundred times. Although some contend that Beza's view of the doctrine of predestination exercised an overly dominant influence upon his interpretation of the Scriptures, there is no question that he added much to a clear understanding of the New Testament. This is the perfect opportunity to add to your collection of early Bibles and to own a significant piece of history from the 16th century. Domestic shipping via UPS Ground with insurance will be approximately $75 and International shipping will be approximately $150 with insurance. Please ask any questions you have and we will be happy to answer them. We are happy to provide a dozen or more high quality photos of the book upon request. We prefer a personal or cashier's check as the method of payment but will accept other forms. Thank you again for looking.
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6800.00 USD
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