DUPIN, L. ELLIES. - A PIONEER WORK.

Nova bibliotheca auctorum ecclesiasticorum, eorum Vitae Historiam, Operum Catalogum, Criticen, Et Chronologiam Complectens, Ac Eorum, Qvæ Continent Compendium Super Eorum Cum Stylo, Tum Doctrina Judicium, Nec Non Variarum Operum Editionum Enumerationem Auctore DD. L. Ellies Dupin, 3 Vols. (all).

Paris, Societatis, 1692 (Tome I), Köln, Huguetanorum, 1692-93 (Tomus II-III). 4to. 3 contemp. full vellum. 3 engraved frontispieces. Ca 1750 pp. A few margins with brownspots, otherwise internally clean and fine.

About 1684 Dupin conceived the idea of his Nouvelle bibliothèque des auteurs ecclésiastiques (the French edition of the work offered) , the first volume of which appeared in 1686. In it he treated simultaneously biography, literary criticism, and the history of dogma; in this he was a pioneer leaving far behind him all previous efforts, Catholic or Protestant, which were still under the influence of the Scholastic method. He was also the first to publish such a collection in a modern language. - Graesse II, 448.

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