Leighton Library has 1533 first edition of "De occulta philosophia" by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Added by Leighton Library at 07:33 on 14 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1533 first edition of a book on the occult, which was condemned as heretical, "De occulta philosophia" by German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier & theologian Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim who was born #OnThisDay 14 September 1486. He was considered ...

Leighton Library has 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Added by Leighton Library at 07:09 on 13 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1636 edition of "Les essais de Michel seigneur de Montaigne" (said to contain some of the most influential essays ever written) by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance) who died #OnThisDay 13 September 1592. He is known ...

Leighton Library has 1616 edition of Bible which includes influential French translations of the Psalms by Clément Marot

Added by Leighton Library at 06:23 on 12 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1616 edition of the Bible which includes influential French translations of the Psalms by French Renaissance poet Clément Marot, who died #OnThisDay 12 September 1544. It has been said that these translations did more than anything else to advance the cause of the Protesta...

Leighton Library has 1549 edition of "Polubion Megalopolitou 'Istorion biblia 5, Kai epitomai 12. Polybij megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque" by Wolfgang Musculus

Added by Leighton Library at 06:26 on 10 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1549 edition of "Polubion Megalopolitou 'Istorion biblia 5, Kai epitomai 12. Polybij megalopolitani Historiarum libri priores quinque" by Wolfgang Musculus, born #OnThisDay 10 September 1497. This deals with the history of ancient Greece and the Roman Republic, 510-30 BC

Leighton Library has a 1544 edition of "Euaggelikes proparaskeues biblia" edited by Robert Estienne

Added by Leighton Library at 06:37 on 07 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1544 edition of "Euaggelikes proparaskeues biblia" edited by French printer and classical scholar Robert Estienne who died #OnThisDay 7 September 1559. He published many classical texts and Greek and Latin translations of the Bible, and was first to print the New Testament...