Description: 1574 'Biblia Sacra' Latin Holy Bible. Signed by White Kennett 18th.C. Bishop. 1574 'Biblia Sacra' Latin Holy Bible. Signed by White Kennett 18th.C. Bishop. Click images to enlarge Description ‘Biblia Sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti. Iuxta vulgatum editionem maiori quam antehacunquam Doctorum studio ad veritem Hebraitam probatis, exemplarium sidem emendam. Cum figuris & descriptioibus etiam chorographicis, quibus variorum aedificiorum ac operum structurae, arque regiones ob omnium oculos ponuntur’ Apud Petrum Santandreanum: M.D.LXXIIII. [1574]. [New Testament title imprint differs as per Worldcat] ‘Ex officina Francisci Stephani, M.D. LXVII [i.e. 1567]. Small, thick octavo [6.50’’ tall x4.50’’ wide x 2.00’’ thick]. Collates complete [7], 435, 131 (ie 113), 27 leaves. Final 27 leaves are an index. With some engravings with the text and two full page plate engravings, one in the Old and one in the New Testament. In good, solid and clean condition in the main. Minor marks, light blemishes or reading wear commensurate with age else a nice copy of this 16th.C. Latin Bible. With an English, 'Book of Psalms' dated 1636 bound after the bible index. Collates complete [10], 100, [2]p. With a 17/18th.C. signature to the title page of White Kennett. Signed ‘Wh. Kennett’ to the centre of the title. White Kennett (10 August 1660 – 19 December 1728) English Bishop of Peterborough [1718-1728] and antiquarian. He was educated at Westminster School and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where, while an undergraduate, he published several translations of Latin works, including Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. Kennett was vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire from 1685 until 1708. During his incumbency he returned to Oxford as tutor and vice-principal of St Edmund Hall, where he gave considerable impetus to the study of antiquities. George Hickes gave him lessons in Old English. In 1695 he published Parochial Antiquities. In 1700 he became rector of St Botolph's Aldgate, London, and in 1701 Archdeacon of Huntingdon. For a eulogistic sermon on the recently deceased William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, Kennett was in 1707 recommended to the deanery of Peterborough. He afterwards joined the Low Church party, strenuously opposed the Sacheverell movement, and in the Bangorian controversy supported with great zeal and considerable bitterness the side of Bishop Hoadly. His intimacy with Charles Trimnell, bishop of Norwich, who was high in favour with George I of Great Britain, secured for him in 1718 the bishopric of Peterborough. He died at Westminster in December 1728. White Kennett Street, near St Botolph, Aldgate, is named after him. Bound in a rather plain but sound faux-leather binding. INTERNATIONAL PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TAXES OR DUTIES. PLEASE CHECK BEFORE PURCHASE. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image HostingCreate your brand with Auctiva's Customizable Templates. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter
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Date of Publication: Pre-1700
Binding: Fine Binding
Non-Fiction Subject: Religion, Spirituality & Bibles
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1687
Place of Publication: London
Author: Guthrie, William
