Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

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

Added 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

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