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De Consolatio Philosophie by Boethius
Date of Manuscript: ca. 1400-1425Boethius’s best known work is the Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae),which he wrote most likely while in exile under house arrest or in prison while awaiting his execution, but his lifelong project was a...
Opuscula by John Chrysostom
Date of Manuscript: ca. 1450-65 Humanist manuscript compilation of three short treaties on the virtues of the ascetics life by St. John Chrysostom, transcribed into Latin in northern Italy and pre-dating the printed editions. The author of the translation...
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Date of Manuscript: 1488This rubricated manuscript in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni, the first Florentine scholar to use the word “studia humanitatis” as a term for literary studies was used in grammar schools. This couples with the large number of...
Verrine Orations Manuscript by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Date of Manuscript: 1476 Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, in Latin. Written in the humanist style in Padua, Italy circa 1476, this volume contains Marcus Tullius Cicero's "Verrine Orations," a series of speeches Cicero made in 70 B.C. The speeches were made during...
Citie of God by Augustine of Hippo
Publication Date: 1610First Edition English.Augustine of Hippo remains one of the most renowned church fathers and philosophers. His work, City of God, "is an apology for Christianity against the accusations that the Church was responsible for the decline of the Roman...
Koran
Date of Manuscript: ca. 18th CenturyThe Koran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the exact word of God and the Final Testament, following the Old and New Testaments.Its literally meaning is “a recitation.” It is regarded widely as the...
Vulgate Bible
Date of Manuscript: ca. 13th CenturyHandwritten in Latin and on parchment, this work is illuminated and rubricated.It was made in Northern France in the 13th century. The earliest examples of these portable Bibles were copied in Paris at the end of the 1220's or the...
The Institution of Christian Religion by John Calvin
Date of Publication: 1611"(Adapted from Jean Calvin, 1509-1564) French Protestant reformer. Calvin’s theological doctrines had tremendous influence, particularly in the Puritan religion of England, Scotland, and America.Calvin had an early background of humanism; as a...
Von der Babylonischen der Kirchen (On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church) by Martin Luther
Date of Publication: 1520Third German Edition printed in the same year as the first edition.This is the second of Luther's three crucial reformatory writings of 1520, which the Reformer radically critiques the sacramental system of the church. "It is in the...
King James Bible “HE” Version
Date of Publication: 1611First Edition, First Printing King James Bible.Two editions of the Bible are recognized as having been produced in 1611. They are known as the "He" and "She" Bibles. They are distinguished by their rendering of Ruth 3:15; the first edition...
