[Manuscript in Latin: Theologia Supernaturalis Viri J.C. Vitringa]

[N.p., Netherlands, 1724. ink on paper in Latin, Hebrew, Greek, French, in a clean hand using regular scholarly abbreviations. [6], 285 pp., interleaved with blank leaves throughout; dated at end 1719 and 1724. 1 vols. 4to. Eighteenth century quarter red leather. Spine dark, ends rubbed and joints cracked but binding sound. Internally clean. ink on paper in Latin, Hebrew, Greek, French, in a clean hand using regular scholarly abbreviations. [6], 285 pp., interleaved with blank leaves throughout; dated at end 1719 and 1724. 1 vols. 4to. Its its structure, this orderly manuscript notebook of disciplined reading in the theology of prolific and influential author Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722), follows closely that of Vitringa’s Aphorismi quibus fundamenta sanctæ theologiæ comprehenduntur: in usum scholarum privatarum (Johannem Gyselaar, 1688; translated as Fundamentals of Sacred Theology), some 25 chapters in all (marked Lectio 1 to 197 in margins). The numbered pages summarize the chapters, with marginal glosses on occasion; and citations or other references are entered in two columns on the unnumbered interleaving.

A CLEAR RECORD OF HOW THEOLOGY WAS STUDIED IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Provenance: William R. Whittingham, with his note, “Purchased out of the Catalogue of Baynes and Son for 1834, no. 4413 p. 218 WRW”; General Theological Seminary (bookplates and inkstamps)