{"product_id":"tertullian-1","title":"TERTULLIAN.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA good, clean, well-margined copy of this handsome editio princeps  the first impression of the entire works of Tertullian  (Schoenman, 15), edited by the humanist reformer Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547).  The typographical execution of the volume is worthy of the press from which it issued. It is a book of uncommon occurrence; and, as an editio princeps, it should have a place in all libraries of any critical pretension  (Dibdin). The handsome   woodcut borders were produced by Ambrosius Holbein, Hans Franck and Hans Holbein the Younger, whom Froben had hired especially for his ambitious editions of the Church Fathers. Based on two mss from the monasteries of Peterlingen and Hirschau, edited by Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), this edition was revised using a third. (Graesse VI, 69).   Tertullian (155-240AD), of whom little is known, was born in Carthage and was probably a lawyer and priest. He became one of the earliest defenders of Christianity against pagan cults like Gnosticism; he was also the first Latin writer to use the word  trinity . This edition includes his sermons on patience, Christ s flesh, its resurrection, martyrs, penitence, wives and monogamy. It also features his  adversus  against the Jews and the Valentinians, as well as his most famous  Apologeticus , which discusses key theological questions like the nature of Christ and the devil, the kingdom of God, the Roman religion, and why pagan deities should not be considered  gods . One early annotator of this copy was especially interested in  Adversus Marcionem , against the errors of the Marcionites, a middle eastern cult often identified with a strand of the Gnostics. The annotator also glossed Beatus Rhenanus s commentary on  De Poenitentia , in relation to Protestant criticism of the traditional sacrament, and its theological and scriptural foundations, with observations on confession and penance. He also annotated the sermon on  the character of women , especially their being  the gate of the devil, the first to contravene divine law . In 1596, this copy was purchased in Würzburg, Bavaria, by Erasmus Schaiblin. He was a doctor in theology from Steinbach am Wald, and canon at St Johannes in Haugis, in Wüzburg. He left it to the Jesuit College of Würzburg in 1613, whence it moved to the colleges of Bremen in 1654 and Minden in 1668.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TERTULLIAN.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820350218575,"sku":"L3510","price":11500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3406-1.jpg?v=1781794799","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/tertullian-1","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}