Alexandro, Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2vol. 1681 & 1683
Natali Alexandro, Noel Alexandre, "Historiae Ecclesiasticae", 1st Edition 1681 and 1683, Two volumes in Latin, Church History Europe.
This is the first European Historical work founded on documents and consisting of objective analysis of facts. Such History writing was so novel that Pope forbid the book and ordered its destruction. Only a very few volumes of this first edition survived. Later, the Pope's order was revoked, and this History of Church was reprinted. We are offering two original volumes of this first, almost completely destroyed edition. These volumes were published in 1681 and 1683.
"Selecta Historiae Ecclesiasticae Capita, Et in loca ejusdem insignia, DISSERTATIONES HISTORICAE, CHRONOLIGICAE CRITICAE, DOGMATICAE", Authore R.P.F. Natali Alexandro, Ordinis F.F. Pradicatorum, in Sacra Facultate Parisiensi Doctore Theologo, & in Majori Conventu & Collegio Parisiesi ejusdem Ordinis, Sacra Theologiae Professore,& Studii Regente. (NOEL ALEXANDRE).
VOLUME IX. ET X. - PARS PRIMA:
illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi Hyacintho Serroni; Primo Albigensium Archiepiscopo Ac Domino; Casae-Dei Abbati: Religiosae Piaeqve Vitae Aeqvabiblitate, Exqvisitae Ervditionis Lvminibvs; Animi ad res Magnas Gerendas Admiranda Capacitate, et Prvdentia Singvlari: Stvdio in Ecclesiae Disciplinam Ac Pacem Incredibill: Ardore in Regis Obseqvia Nobilissimo, Sincerissimo, Integerrimo, Nemini Impari: Tam Amando Ob Illecebras Hvmanitatis et Affabilitatis, Qvam Reverendo ob Cvlmen Didnitatis, ob Praestantiam Virtvtis, ob Grateaevim et Avctoritatis: Amicitias Generosa Bonitate Colenti:Ordinis FF. Praedicatorvm Ornamento, Vniqve in Galliis Colvmini: Patrono Svo Colendissimo: Nonvm et Decimvm Histoiae Ecclesiasticae Secvlvm Offert, Dicat, Consecrat F. Natalis Alexander (Praedictor). Kalendis Oetobris M. DC. LXXXI.
Published Parisiis, Apud Antonium Dezallier, in Vico San-Jacobeo, ad Coronam Auream, in 1681; 873 pages + Index.
This volume covers the History from Pope Leo III up to Anglo Protestants.
VOLUME XI. ET XII. -- PARS PRIMA:"Illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi JACOBO NICOLAO COLBERT, Carthaginensi Archiepiscopo et Primati, Coadjutori Rothomagensi, Abbati Beccensi, &c. F. Natalis Alexander Praedicator.
Historae Ecclestasticae Dissertationibus Selectus illusrate Vndecimum & Duodecimum Seculum ut in tuo nomine prodiret, Archipraesul Illustrissime, non Dignitatis tantum tuae amplitudo & non celebritas una nominis, quod semper Operum hujusmodi fronti auspicato praefigitur; non explicatissima recordatio beneficiorum in me tuorum, quam hocce qualicunque monumento publice profiteri vellem; sed eximiae potissimum virtutes tuae & pervagatissima eruditionis tuae fama, suaserunt...." 1683 is dedicated to Jacob Colbert; Index + 841 pages.
Alexander Natalis (Or NOEL ALEXANDRE). A French historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic, [Rouen, 1639-1724, Paris]. He made his early studies at the Dominican College of Rouen and, after entering the Dominican Order in that city, 9 May 1655, studied philosophy and theology in the convent of Saint Jacques, Paris, where he afterward taught for twelve years, during which time he gained some renown as a preacher.
In 1672, at the wish of his superiors, he obtained the licentiate from the Sorbonne, and in 1675, the doctorate. About this time he attracted much attention by writing against Launoy on the subject of simony. Persuaded by that generous promoter of learning, the great French minister, Jean Baptiste Colbert, to enter the society of savants of which the Abbe Colbert (later Archbishop of Rouen) was the central figure, he lectured before it on particular events of history with such success that he was urged to write a complete history after the method that he had followed in his lecture.
He yielded to this wish of the French scholar and published in Paris, in 1677, the first volume, bearing the general title "Selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita et in loca ejusdem insignia dissertations historicae, criticae, ogmaticae", in which he treated of the first century of Christianity, and in 1686, the twenty-fourth volume in which he closed his studies of New Testament history with dissertations on the Council of Trent. In the next few years he published six octavo volumes of dissertations on the history of the Old Testament.
His directness and conciseness, his critical acumen, and his manner of viewing history and dividing it into special studies (then quite original, although now common enough) won for him the approbation of the learned. The first volumes of the history brought him letters of commendation and praise from Pope Innocent XI and many cardinals.
In the preface to the third edition (Paris, 1699, eight folio volumes) Father Alexander submitted fully to the judgment of the Holy See, and in some scholia added to the dissertations showed that in some instances he had been criticized and judged unjustly. Father Roncaglia (of the Clerks Regular) brought out at Lucca, in 1734, a sixth edition of the work in nine folio volumes, in which he gave the text unaltered, but with the addition of paragraphs and dissertations correcting the most offensive statements.
Upon the completion of his historical dissertation Father Alexander turned his attention for some years to strictly theological studies, and in 1693 published in Paris in ten octavo volumes a commentary on the "Catechismus Romanus" entitled "Theologia dogmatica et moralis" to which he added for preachers an Index Concinnatorius, distributing the whole work into sketches of sermons for all the Sundays and feast-days of the year.
The work has also two appendixes containing valuable letters from his pen on moral theology and casuistry, and many papal, synodal, and episcopal documents bearing on the disputes of the time.
His next work of importance was a handbook for preachers: "Praecepta et regulae ad praedicatores verbi divini informandos", which first appeared in Paris in 1701. This was followed (1703-10) by a commentary "Commentarius literalis et moralis" on one hundred and sixty Gospels (for Sundays and feast-days) and on the Epistles of the New Testament, which has often been re-edited in various forms.
In 1706, having been elected Provincial of the Dominican Province of France, he was obliged to interrupt his literary labors. Freed from his administrative duties in 1710, he set himself to the task of writing a commentary on the prophetical books of the Old Testaments.
In 1712 he was forced to lay aside his pen by a weakness of the eyes which finally resulted in total blindness. He died of old age in the convent of Saint Jacques in Paris, having enjoyed throughout his long and busy literary life a close intimacy with all the learned men of his time, especially with Cardinal Noris. While writing the important works noticed above Father Alexander published several dissertations in which he showed.
(1) that St. Thomas Aquinas was the author of the "Summa Theologica"
(2) that St. Thomas was the author of the "Office of Corpus Christi"
(3) in the form of a dialogue between a Franciscan and a Dominican, that St. Thomas was not a disciple of Alexander of Hales, and that the Secunda Secundae of the "Summa" was not borrowed from the latter.
These, with a dissertation against Father Frassen, O.S.F., on the Vulgate, have been incorporated in his "Historia Ecclesiastica" (Venice edition, 1778). Father Alexander wrote and published in French: "Recueil de plusieurs pièces pour la défense de la morale et de la grâce de J.C." (Delft, 1698); "Apologie des Dominicains Missionaires de la Chine, ou réponse au livre intitulé", "Défense des nouveaux Chrétiens" (Cologne, 1697); "Conformité des cérémonies Chinoises avec l'idolatrie grecque et romaine, pour servir de confirmation à l'apologie des Dominicains Missionaires de la Chine" (Cologne, 1700); "Lettres d'un Docteur de l'ordre de S. Dominique sur les cérémonies de la Chine" (Cologne, 1700).
See Catalogue complet des auvres du Pere Alexandre (Paris, 1716); Quetif-Echard, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum (Paris, 1719-1721), t. ii. p. 810; and full bibliography in A. Vacant, Diet, de theologie (scholarly article by P. Mandounet, cols. 769-772).
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Condition Report: Hard covers, original 17th century gold tooled leather (small damages and old repairs). The 1681 volume has book-worm damage (mainly on blank edges) at the first 25 pages and last 20 pages (see picture).; 5" x 7.3/4"; very good condition.
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Natali Alexandro, Noel Alexandre, "Historiae Ecclesiasticae", 1st Edition 1681 and 1683, Two volumes in Latin, Church History Europe.
This is the first European Historical work founded on documents and consisting of objective analysis of facts. Such History writing was so novel that Pope forbid the book and ordered its destruction. Only a very few volumes of this first edition survived. Later, the Pope's order was revoked, and this History of Church was reprinted. We are offering two original volumes of this first, almost completely destroyed edition. These volumes were published in 1681 and 1683.
"Selecta Historiae Ecclesiasticae Capita, Et in loca ejusdem insignia, DISSERTATIONES HISTORICAE, CHRONOLIGICAE CRITICAE, DOGMATICAE", Authore R.P.F. Natali Alexandro, Ordinis F.F. Pradicatorum, in Sacra Facultate Parisiensi Doctore Theologo, & in Majori Conventu & Collegio Parisiesi ejusdem Ordinis, Sacra Theologiae Professore,& Studii Regente. (NOEL ALEXANDRE).
VOLUME IX. ET X. - PARS PRIMA:
illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi Hyacintho Serroni; Primo Albigensium Archiepiscopo Ac Domino; Casae-Dei Abbati: Religiosae Piaeqve Vitae Aeqvabiblitate, Exqvisitae Ervditionis Lvminibvs; Animi ad res Magnas Gerendas Admiranda Capacitate, et Prvdentia Singvlari: Stvdio in Ecclesiae Disciplinam Ac Pacem Incredibill: Ardore in Regis Obseqvia Nobilissimo, Sincerissimo, Integerrimo, Nemini Impari: Tam Amando Ob Illecebras Hvmanitatis et Affabilitatis, Qvam Reverendo ob Cvlmen Didnitatis, ob Praestantiam Virtvtis, ob Grateaevim et Avctoritatis: Amicitias Generosa Bonitate Colenti:Ordinis FF. Praedicatorvm Ornamento, Vniqve in Galliis Colvmini: Patrono Svo Colendissimo: Nonvm et Decimvm Histoiae Ecclesiasticae Secvlvm Offert, Dicat, Consecrat F. Natalis Alexander (Praedictor). Kalendis Oetobris M. DC. LXXXI.
Published Parisiis, Apud Antonium Dezallier, in Vico San-Jacobeo, ad Coronam Auream, in 1681; 873 pages + Index.
This volume covers the History from Pope Leo III up to Anglo Protestants.
VOLUME XI. ET XII. -- PARS PRIMA:"Illustrissimo Ecclesiae Principi JACOBO NICOLAO COLBERT, Carthaginensi Archiepiscopo et Primati, Coadjutori Rothomagensi, Abbati Beccensi, &c. F. Natalis Alexander Praedicator.
Historae Ecclestasticae Dissertationibus Selectus illusrate Vndecimum & Duodecimum Seculum ut in tuo nomine prodiret, Archipraesul Illustrissime, non Dignitatis tantum tuae amplitudo & non celebritas una nominis, quod semper Operum hujusmodi fronti auspicato praefigitur; non explicatissima recordatio beneficiorum in me tuorum, quam hocce qualicunque monumento publice profiteri vellem; sed eximiae potissimum virtutes tuae & pervagatissima eruditionis tuae fama, suaserunt...." 1683 is dedicated to Jacob Colbert; Index + 841 pages.
Alexander Natalis (Or NOEL ALEXANDRE). A French historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic, [Rouen, 1639-1724, Paris]. He made his early studies at the Dominican College of Rouen and, after entering the Dominican Order in that city, 9 May 1655, studied philosophy and theology in the convent of Saint Jacques, Paris, where he afterward taught for twelve years, during which time he gained some renown as a preacher.
In 1672, at the wish of his superiors, he obtained the licentiate from the Sorbonne, and in 1675, the doctorate. About this time he attracted much attention by writing against Launoy on the subject of simony. Persuaded by that generous promoter of learning, the great French minister, Jean Baptiste Colbert, to enter the society of savants of which the Abbe Colbert (later Archbishop of Rouen) was the central figure, he lectured before it on particular events of history with such success that he was urged to write a complete history after the method that he had followed in his lecture.
He yielded to this wish of the French scholar and published in Paris, in 1677, the first volume, bearing the general title "Selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita et in loca ejusdem insignia dissertations historicae, criticae, ogmaticae", in which he treated of the first century of Christianity, and in 1686, the twenty-fourth volume in which he closed his studies of New Testament history with dissertations on the Council of Trent. In the next few years he published six octavo volumes of dissertations on the history of the Old Testament.
His directness and conciseness, his critical acumen, and his manner of viewing history and dividing it into special studies (then quite original, although now common enough) won for him the approbation of the learned. The first volumes of the history brought him letters of commendation and praise from Pope Innocent XI and many cardinals.
In the preface to the third edition (Paris, 1699, eight folio volumes) Father Alexander submitted fully to the judgment of the Holy See, and in some scholia added to the dissertations showed that in some instances he had been criticized and judged unjustly. Father Roncaglia (of the Clerks Regular) brought out at Lucca, in 1734, a sixth edition of the work in nine folio volumes, in which he gave the text unaltered, but with the addition of paragraphs and dissertations correcting the most offensive statements.
Upon the completion of his historical dissertation Father Alexander turned his attention for some years to strictly theological studies, and in 1693 published in Paris in ten octavo volumes a commentary on the "Catechismus Romanus" entitled "Theologia dogmatica et moralis" to which he added for preachers an Index Concinnatorius, distributing the whole work into sketches of sermons for all the Sundays and feast-days of the year.
The work has also two appendixes containing valuable letters from his pen on moral theology and casuistry, and many papal, synodal, and episcopal documents bearing on the disputes of the time.
His next work of importance was a handbook for preachers: "Praecepta et regulae ad praedicatores verbi divini informandos", which first appeared in Paris in 1701. This was followed (1703-10) by a commentary "Commentarius literalis et moralis" on one hundred and sixty Gospels (for Sundays and feast-days) and on the Epistles of the New Testament, which has often been re-edited in various forms.
In 1706, having been elected Provincial of the Dominican Province of France, he was obliged to interrupt his literary labors. Freed from his administrative duties in 1710, he set himself to the task of writing a commentary on the prophetical books of the Old Testaments.
In 1712 he was forced to lay aside his pen by a weakness of the eyes which finally resulted in total blindness. He died of old age in the convent of Saint Jacques in Paris, having enjoyed throughout his long and busy literary life a close intimacy with all the learned men of his time, especially with Cardinal Noris. While writing the important works noticed above Father Alexander published several dissertations in which he showed.
(1) that St. Thomas Aquinas was the author of the "Summa Theologica"
(2) that St. Thomas was the author of the "Office of Corpus Christi"
(3) in the form of a dialogue between a Franciscan and a Dominican, that St. Thomas was not a disciple of Alexander of Hales, and that the Secunda Secundae of the "Summa" was not borrowed from the latter.
These, with a dissertation against Father Frassen, O.S.F., on the Vulgate, have been incorporated in his "Historia Ecclesiastica" (Venice edition, 1778). Father Alexander wrote and published in French: "Recueil de plusieurs pièces pour la défense de la morale et de la grâce de J.C." (Delft, 1698); "Apologie des Dominicains Missionaires de la Chine, ou réponse au livre intitulé", "Défense des nouveaux Chrétiens" (Cologne, 1697); "Conformité des cérémonies Chinoises avec l'idolatrie grecque et romaine, pour servir de confirmation à l'apologie des Dominicains Missionaires de la Chine" (Cologne, 1700); "Lettres d'un Docteur de l'ordre de S. Dominique sur les cérémonies de la Chine" (Cologne, 1700).
See Catalogue complet des auvres du Pere Alexandre (Paris, 1716); Quetif-Echard, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum (Paris, 1719-1721), t. ii. p. 810; and full bibliography in A. Vacant, Diet, de theologie (scholarly article by P. Mandounet, cols. 769-772).
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) ------- $29.50
Canada: Express (c.5-8 days) --- $66.50
World: Express (c.5-10 days) --- $120.00
Condition Report: Hard covers, original 17th century gold tooled leather (small damages and old repairs). The 1681 volume has book-worm damage (mainly on blank edges) at the first 25 pages and last 20 pages (see picture).; 5" x 7.3/4"; very good condition.
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