A short history of Valentinus Gentilis the tritheist, . tryed, condemned, and put to death by the Protestant reformed city and church of Bern in Switzerland, for asserting the three divine persons of the Trinity, to be three distinct, eternal spirits, &c. Wrote in Latin, by Benedictus Aretius, a divine of that church; and now translated into English for the use of Dr. Sherlock. Humbly tendred to the consideration of the arch-bishops and bishops of this church and kingdom.
Benedictus Aretius (d.1574)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101358
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],134,[2]p. . 8vo.. Annotations on flyleaf in a seventeenth-century hand. Old NT shelfmarks: Vv.3.9. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: Ll1-19 [brown ink]; Vv/5 [pencil]; Vv.6.31 [dark blue ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt tooling on spine and board edges, double blind fillet and cornerpieces on covers, red-brown spine label, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Benedictus Aretius (d.1574) N. N Robert South (1634-1716)