Leighton Library has 1711 edition of "Apparatus Biblicus" by Bernard Lamy

Added by Leighton Library at 06:15 on 15 June 2025

#OnThisDay 15 June 1640 French Oratorian, mathematician and theologian Bernard Lamy was born. The Leighton Library has a 1711 edition of his "Apparatus Biblicus" in which he calls into question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith

Leighton Library has 1618 edition of "M. Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, sive De bello civili Cæsaris et Pompeji lib X" by Thomas Farnaby

Added by Leighton Library at 07:40 on 12 June 2025

#OnThisDay 12 June 1647 leading classical scholar & outstanding educator of his time Thomas Farnaby died. His works chiefly consisted of annotated editions of Latin authors, and textbooks on rhetoric and Latin grammar, which enjoyed extraordinary popularity. The Leighton Library has a 1618 edition o...

Leighton Library has 1689 first edition of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" by Henry Dodwell

Added by Leighton Library at 07:02 on 07 June 2025

The Leighton Library has a first edition of 1689 of "Dissertationes in Irenaeum" (Dissertations upon Irenaeus) by Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer Henry Dodwell who died #OnThisDay 7 June 1711. This was in the subject of Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon. Robert Leighton’s frien...