Johann Lorenz Mosheims Versuch einer unpartheiischen und gründlichen Ketzergeschichte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755.

Contributor:

Schoenemann, Friederich.

Bernigeroth, Johann Martin, 1713-1767.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Christian heresies--Early works to 1800.

Christian heresies.

Christian heretics--Early works to 1800.

Christian heretics.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Stadtbibliothek zu Breslau (stamp)

Physical Description:

56, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Versuch einer unpartheiischen und gründlichen Ketzergeschichte

Place of Publication:

Helmstaedt : Bey Christian Friederich Weygand, 1746.

Contents:

Geschichte der Schlangenbrüder der ersten Kirche oder der so genannten Ophiten

Geschichte des Apostel-Ordens.

Notes:

Signatures: a-g⁴ A-3D⁴.

Engraved title vignette; two half-page engraved illustrations.

Title vignette signed: Schönemañ sc.; half-page engravings signed: Bernigeroth sc. 1746.

Woodcut initial, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Typographical ornaments.

Printed marginalia.

A further volume, entitled Anderweitiger Versuch einer vollständigen und unpartheyischen Ketzergeschichte, was published in 1748.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in full vellum with ms. title on spine; remains of 2 labels on spine, 1 with ms. shelf mark; all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on back pastedown and his autograph (1887) on front free endpaper; ms. shelf mark on front pastedown; stamp and duplicate stamp of Stadtbibliothek zu Breslau on title leaf.

OCLC:

3084060