Les Paralipomenes Traduits En François Avec Une Explicationtirée Des Saints Pères & Des Auteurs Ecclésiastiques by Louis-Isaac Le Maistre De Sacy

EB. Very Good. Hardcover. Leather. 12mo. Guillaume Desprez, Paris, 1693. 612 + 286 pgs. Text in double column in French and Latin. Bound in leather with raised bands and gilt stamped tiltes present to the spine. Boards are scuffed and worn with worn edges. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, Before appearing in its entirety in 1696 under the profane Bible name of Port-Royal, Pierre Thomas du Fossé collected the various manuscripts left by Le Maistre de Sacy to his death in 1684 and edited them punctually. He continued the work left unfinished and published first separately the translations of the Vulgate of Le Maistre de Sacy. Each chapter is followed by his explanation and comments. Before this considerable work on the part of the writers of Port Royal, the Bible had never been so accessible to a large public; this work was inaugurated by the translation of the New Testament from 1666 By Antoine Arnaud and Le Maistre de Sacy. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .