Richard Bernard,
Thesaurus Biblicus Seu Promptuarium Sacrum… an abstract of the principal mattters in the Holy Scripture.
Printed at London for Andrew Crooke. 1644
$550.00
A Calvinist Puritan Bible Dictionary, here in the First Edition.The moderate Calvinist Puritan produces a “treasury” to help guide the understanding of the scriptures. “That we may then make use of this treasury, draw water from this living fountain, …let us be diligent in perusing the sacred writings of the Prophets and the Apostles.” Complete with blank at 2S6 and portrait by Hollar.
The volume(s) measure about 28 cm. by 19 cm. by 4.5 cm.
Each leaf measures about 270 mm. by 180 mm.
- Main description
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Main description
The Full Title reads as follows:
Thesaurus Biblicus seu Promptuarium sacrum. Whereunto are added all the marginall readings, with the words of the text, and many words in the text expounded by the text, all alphabetically set downe throughout the Bible. In the end is annexed an abstract of the principal mattters [sic] in the Holy Scripture. By Richard Bernard, late rector of Batcombe. See the contents and use of all, in the Epistle to the reader. Imprinted at London: by Felix Kingston, for Andrew Crooke at the Signe of the Greene-Dragon in Paules Church-Yard. 1644.
The Volume is Complete in All Respects including the blank at 2S6, often missing. The bulk of the text is unpaginated, with the text divided into three columns per page, organised alphabetically.
Frontis. portrait (A1v) of the author signed: W: Hollar Bohem, ad viuum del: Londini.
The Bibles Abstract and Epitomie” (Wing B2023) has separate title page with imprint “by G[eorge]. M[iller]. for Andrew Crooke … M.DC.XLII.”; register begins with 3A1. It was apparently never published separately.
The volume is paginated as follows: [490], 176, [2] p.
The volume collates as follows: A-2Q6, 2R4, 2S6, 3A-3X4, 3Y4 [3Z)2. Leaf 2S6 is a blank.
Condition
The Volume is in Very Good Condition Bound in late seventeenth or early eighteenth century quarter calf over marbled boards, with the spine divided into seven compartments by six raised bands, with the leaf edges red speckled. Externally the boards and spine are lightly scuffed, with chipping to the head of the spine chipped, some worming and peeling at the front board, and with the board corners bumped. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, ruled throughout, with some faint guttural staining on certain leaves.
Biography / Bibliography
Richard Bernard
Richard Bernard was a moderate Calvinist Puritan, who flirted with nonconformity during the reigns of James I and Charles I. He briefly entered communion with a separatist church, before returning to regular service and publishing admonitions of the non-conformists. Nonetheless, he frequently found himself at odds with specific points of practise of faith, such as making the sign of the cross during baptism, which Bernard refused to do. Bernard managed to avoid damaging his reputation, such that he could continue to write rather prolifically throughout his career, with numerous devotional pieces and tracts on biblical study issued during his lifetime and posthumously.
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