Antiquitates Apostolicae
 
OR THE
HISTORY
OF
THE LIVES
ACTS and MARTYRDOMS
OF THE
HOLY APOSTLES
OF OUR
SAVIOUR
And the Two EVANGELISTS
SS. MARK and LUKE

To which is added
An Introductory Discourse concerning the Three great Dispensation of
the Church, Patriarchal, Mosaical and Evangelical.

Being a Continuation of ANTIQUITATES CHRISTIANAE
OR
The Life and Death of the Holy JESUS
 [by Jeremy Taylor]
____________________________________
 
By WILLIAM CAVE, D.D. Chaplain in
Ordinary to His MAJESTY
 

LONDON
Printed by R. Norton for R. Royston, Bookseller to His Most Sacred Majest
 at the Angel in Amen-Corner.
MDCLXXVI (1676)
 
Bound in full leather with six raised bands to spine. Measuring approx 31.7cm x 21.2cm x 3.4cm. The front board is split to spine edge and the rear board is cracked to top compartment of spine. Leather is little marked/stained with some scuffs and scratches. The spine is a little creased and is chipped to top. Extremities rubbed and bumped and the corners little chipped. Internally the front board and spine are cracked to inner edges and peeling away from contents. Rear board cracked to inner edges and rear endpapers lacking. Front endpaper is stained, chipped to edges and detached. Ink detail and armorial bookplate (Motto : Per Crucem ad Stellas,*) to inside front board (Bookplate chipped/scuffed). Ink inscription to top of title page (J. Hutchinson) and words and scribbles to base. Ink initials to binders remnants to inside rear board. Contents are cracking/cracked and pulling throughout. Little pale staining to top edges of several leaves. Odd small tear. Lacking frontispiece and plate?. Lightly thumbed and very lightly grubby, with occasional mark, spot and crease. Else the majority of text block remains in clean condition.
 
Several wonderful engravings within text.
(a few of which are by HOLLAR?)

Published as a continuation of: Taylor, Jeremy. Antiquitates christianæ.

? First separate edition. "Antiquitates apostolicae: or, The lives, acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles" has separate dated title-page on leaf A1r. 
 
[8] LXVIII [8] xvii [I] 234

William Cave (1637 – 1713) was an English divine and patristic scholar.
 
"The merits of Cave as a writer consist in the thoroughness of his research, the clearness of his style, and, above all, the admirably lucid method of his arrangement. ... Though he is sometimes criticised for not being critical with his sources, that failing means that many of his works, particularly Antiquitates Apostolicae .. contain a wealth of legendary material, culled from a wide variety of sources, much of which is not readily available elsewhere"

* This is the Motto of the Legard Baronetcy (although there is no name on the Label ?), of Ganton in the County of York, title in the Baronetage of England. Created 1660 for John Legard, a Royalist member of the Yorkshire gentry who fought in the Civil War and sat as the Member of Parliament for Scarborough after the Restoration.

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