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EH 48 B 17




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Polemics
Against Christianity

Libro quarto El Juez de las controversias



Polemical treatise by Abraham Gomes Silveyra. Amsterdam, 1700.

Libro quarto / El Juez de las controversias / Donde se manifesta el Juez de la / verdad. / Y se halla la sentencia verdadera. / Silveyradas. / Contra todo el malo, en fabor de / Todo lo bueno. / Compuestas Por A.G.S. / Año 1700.

Contents:

f. [1r]: Title.

f. [1v], [2v], [3v], 246v: blank.

f. [3r]: Index of chapters.

f. 1r: Preface: “Advertencia al Prudente Lector”.

f. 2r-196v: Text in prose.

f. 197r-218v: Rest text in verse.

f. 219r-240r: Theological treatise in verse: “Quintillas theologicas, substanciadas en ellas lo contenido en esta obra”.

f. 240v-241r: Declaration of the author: “Protestacion”. With Hebrew quotation.

f. 241r-246r: Decimas, written during an illness of the author: “En una grave enfermedad hizo en la cama el Autor estas Dezimas”.

In his first chapter the author states, that he was inspired to write the work by reading the works of the protestant scholars Isaac Jacquelot and Pierre du Moulin. The decimas at the end are identical with those in another of his works Dialogos theologicos, EH 48 B 14

The author was a well-known poet and apologist in Amsterdam at the end of the 17th century. Some other apologetical and poetical works of his exist in ms. cf. Kayserling, Biblioteca, pp. 102, 103 and A. Marx, Polemical mss., nr. 68.

On f. [2r] inscription of the author, alleging that this an autographic copy: ‘Este libro es de Letra de su Autor y esta mesorado de otra copia que de su mano ha salido’.

Belonged to the collection of David Montezinos.


Spanish / Paper / 28,6 x 21,9 cm. / [3] + 246 ff. (first and last 3 ll. blank) / 22-24 lines to a page / Neat current Iberian writing (autograph) with square Hebrew quotation at the end of the text / Catchwords at the end of each page / Contemporary gold-tooled leather binding.


Fuks 200. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.


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