Leighton Library has 1816 edition of "Novum Testamentum syriace, denuo recognitum, atque ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum emendatum" (Syriac Scriptures)

Added by Leighton Library at 08:19 on 12 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1816 edition of "Novum Testamentum syriace, denuo recognitum, atque ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum emendatum" (Syriac Scriptures) on which Scottish theologian Claudius Buchanan (born #OnThisDay 12 March 1766) had been superintending until his death in the year before publ...

Leighton Library has 1774 edition of Hester Chapone's "Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady"

Added by Leighton Library at 11:47 on 08 March 2025

8 March is #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 - Leighton Library has a 1774 edition of Hester Chapone's "Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady." Hester wrote a romance at the age of nine, 'The Loves of Amoret and Melissa', which earned her mother's disapproval! "Letters on ...

Leighton Library has 1638 edition of "Summa Theologica" by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Added by Leighton Library at 07:26 on 07 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of "Summa Theologica" one of the best known works of Italian Dominican priest and philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who died #OnThisDay 7 March 1274. He was an immensely influential philosopher and foremost classical proponent of natural theology. Much of mod...

Leighton Library has 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Juan Luis Vives

Added by Leighton Library at 06:00 on 06 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1639 edition of "De veritate fidei christianae" by Spanish Renaissance scholar Juan Luis Vives who was born #OnThisDay 6 March 1493. His perspective on emotions, memory and learning earned him the title of the "father" of modern psychology

Leighton Library has a 1557 edition of the collection of satirical poems "Varia doctorũ piorumque virorum"

Added by Leighton Library at 07:00 on 03 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1557 edition of the collection of satirical poems "Varia doctorũ piorumque virorum" to which the introduction was added by Croatian theologian Matthias Flacius who was born #OnThisDay 3 March 1520. He was regarded by some as a renegade "we have nourished a snake in our bos...