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...

Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Tommaso Campanella

Added by Leighton Library at 09:06 on 05 September 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Italian poet, philosopher, astrologer and theologian Tommaso Campanella who was born #OnThisDay 5 September 1568. This partly inspired the first fully-fledged "it-narrative" in English (a genre of novel which follows the f...

Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae"

Added by Leighton Library at 06:31 on 04 September 2024

4 September is #NationalWildlifeDay #WildlifeDay. The Leighton Library has a 1663 edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (a zoological treatise on the animals of the bible, by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart. As well as being a religious version of Pliny...