[Rarebooks] FS: Alexandre, Noel: HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA VETERIS NOVIQUE TESTAMENTI

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Alexandre, Noel (Natalis, Alexander); Roncaglia, Constantino; Mansi, 
Giovan Domenico. R.P. NATALIS ALEXANDRI ... HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA 
VETERIS NOVIQUE TESTAMENTI AB ORBE CONDITO AD ANNUM POST CHRISTUM 
NATUM MILLESIMUM SEXCENTESIMUM: ET IN LOCA EJUSDEM INSIGNIA 
DISSERTATIONES HISTORICAE, CHRONOLOGICAE, CRITICAE, DOGMATICAE... 
[WITH]... SUPPLEMENTUM. [TWENTY VOLUMES]. Bingii ad Rhenum: G. C. 
Voigt, 1785-1791. Illus. Sm. 4to.(25 cm). Full mottle calf, raised 
bands, gilt decorated compartments, morocco labels, marbled 
endpapers, all edges red.  First quarto edition. Editio omnium 
novissima, notis et animadversionibus, quoad historiam et 
dissertationem [sic] Novi Testamenti, aucta ad castigationem et 
illustrationem opinionum quorumdam [sic] auctoris, opera et studio 
Constantini Roncaglia ... Quibus accedunt, praeter animadversiones a 
P. Joanne Dominico Mansi ... in 2. Lucensi editione inserta [sic], 
aliae insuper ejusdem auctoris noviter elucubratae. Brunet I, 169.

Noel Alexandre, or Alexander Natalis (1639-1724), was a  French 
historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic who studied 
philosophy and theology in the convent of Saint Jacques, Paris, where 
he taught for twelve years, obtained the licentiate from the 
Sorbonne, and in 1675, the doctorate, and was urged to write a 
complete history of the church, the first volume appearing in 1677. 
"His directness and conciseness, his critical acumen, and his manner 
of viewing history and dividing it into special studies (then quite 
original, although now common enough) won for him the approbation of 
the learned. The first volumes of the history brought him letters of 
commendation and praise from Pope Innocent XI and many cardinals, but 
later volumes gave offense at Rome because of the author's Gallicism, 
and Innocent XI finally forbade the faithful to read ...it," 
Cath.Ency. Alexandre corrected the work in the third edition. 
Constantino Roncaglia brought out a sixth edition, unaltered, but 
with the addition of paragraphs and dissertations correcting the most 
offensive statements. The work was thus removed from the Index by 
Pope Benedict XIII. The edition offered here is the best and most 
complete, edited by Giovan Domenico Mansi who added many explanatory 
notes. An anonymous writer in two supplementary volumes (also 
included here) carried the history into the eighteenth century, and 
added various dissertations from other historians. The work thus 
completed appeared at Venice in 1778, in eleven folio volumes, and at 
Bingen, 1785-91, in twenty volumes.

Spines and boards rubbed and scuffed, worn at extremities, heads and 
heels of a few volumes chipped, calf occasionally darkened or brittle 
mainly on spines, library call numbers to lower compartments, 
seminary book plate to front pastedowns, occasional bookseller's 
ticket, bindings tight, some scattered foxing otherwise leaves clean 
and unmarked. A valuable set.  [26261] $1850.00

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