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TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimus Florentius (c.155-c.222). Apologeticus contra gentes, Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [not after 1494]. 2° (292 x 198mm.). 20 leaves, 45 lines, roman letter. Early 20th-century pigskin-backed buckram. (Spine a little marked).
FIRST EDITION and the first appearance in print of the earliest and, after Augustine, the greatest of the ancient church writers of the West. This is, moreover, the 'weightiest work in defence of Christianity of the first two centuries. It disposes of the charges brought against Christians for secret crimes ... and public offences ... and asserts the absolute superiority of Christianity as a revealed religion beyond the rivalry of all human systems', Encyclopaedia Britannica. HCR 15443; BMC V, 376; Goff T-117.
FIRST EDITION and the first appearance in print of the earliest and, after Augustine, the greatest of the ancient church writers of the West. This is, moreover, the 'weightiest work in defence of Christianity of the first two centuries. It disposes of the charges brought against Christians for secret crimes ... and public offences ... and asserts the absolute superiority of Christianity as a revealed religion beyond the rivalry of all human systems', Encyclopaedia Britannica. HCR 15443; BMC V, 376; Goff T-117.
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