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Book/Printed Material F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla. Quæstiones celeberrimæ in Genesim, cvm accvrata textvs explicatione. In hoc volvmine athei, et deistæ impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vvlgata editio ab hæreticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Græcorum, & Hebræorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fvse refellvntvr, quæ passim in illivs problematibvs habentvr. Opvs theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis præsertim vtile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturæ Sacræ, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quæstionum, & rerum, quæ passim agitantur

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  • F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla. Quæstiones celeberrimæ in Genesim, cvm accvrata textvs explicatione. In hoc volvmine athei, et deistæ impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vvlgata editio ab hæreticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Græcorum, & Hebræorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fvse refellvntvr, quæ passim in illivs problematibvs habentvr. Opvs theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis præsertim vtile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturæ Sacræ, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quæstionum, & rerum, quæ passim agitantur

Names

  • Mersenne, Marin, 1588-1648
  • Bacchius, senior
  • Le Fèvre de La Boderie, Guy, 1541-1598

Created / Published

  • Lvtetiæ Parisiorvm : sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1623.

Headings

  • -  Bible.--Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • -  Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism
  • -  Jews--Music--History and criticism
  • -  Atheism
  • -  Deism

Genre

  • Bookplates (Provenance)--DLC
  • Bookbinding (Binding)--DLC

Notes

  • -  Cramoisy's device on t.p.
  • -  Commentary on chapters 1-6 only. The 2d part was never published; the ms. is preserved in the Bibliotheque nationale (Fonds latin nos. 17261-2). An earlier issue of which only a few copies exist, contains on col. 669-676 a list of persons accused of atheism. The suppressed passage was reprinted in Chauffepié's Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique III (1753) p. 80-81. Cf. J. Vogt, Catalogus historico-criticus (4th ed., Hamburg, 1753, p. 461); B. Hauréau, Histoire littéraire du Maine, t. 8 (1876), p. 112-179.
  • -  Numbering of columns irregular, some leaves being numbered as pages; last column numbered 450 instead of 440. One unnumbered leaf "Errata potiora" of col. 1-1828, inserted after col. 1827-28.
  • -  The treatise on Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata has separate t.p. and pagination: F. Marini Mersenni Ordin. Minimor. S. Francisci de Pavla Observationes, et emendationes ad Francisci Georgii Veneti Problemata, in hoc opere cabala evertitvr.
  • -  "Qvaestio LVI. Qvaenam fverint instrvmenta harmonica, quibus tam Hebraei, quàm Graeci, caeteraeque nationes vtuntur, aut etiam antiquitus vtebantur": col. 1515-1530.
  • -  "Qvaestio [LVII]. De vi musicae tvm antiqvorvm, tum nostrae", col. 1530-1712 (includes an account of the Académie de musique et de poésie founded by J.A. de Baïf and Thibault de Courville, and of the reforms in French poetry and orthography, advocated by Baïf).
  • -  "Paralipomena ... ea, quae in quaestione de musica omissa sunt", col. 1853-1916 (includes part of 4th "cercle" of La Galliade, a didactic poem by Guy Le Fevre de La Borderie, first published in Paris in 1578).
  • -  LC Copy: Ex libris: Boucher, Rev. Jonathan and Molé, Mathieu.
  • -  LAC brd 2018-11-29 update (4 cards)
  • -  LAC ael 2021-05-11 no edits (8 cards)
  • -  LAC ael 2021-06-09 no edits (4 cards)
  • -  LAC ael 2022-02-03 update (4 cards)
  • -  LAC ael 2022-03-29 update (4 cards)

Medium

  • 12 p. l., 1916 (i.e. 1956) col., 1 l., [36] p., 2 l., 450 (i.e. 440) col. : ill., music ; 36 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BS1235 .M43
  • Microfilm Music 5000 Item M-107, Reel 129 Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, [1983]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. On reel with other titles.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 22012666

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  • image

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Mersenne, Marin, Senior Bacchius, and Guy Le Fèvre De La Boderie. F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla. Quæstiones celeberrimæ in Genesim, cvm accvrata textvs explicatione. In hoc volvmine athei, et deistæ impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vvlgata editio ab hæreticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Græcorum, & Hebræorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fvse refellvntvr, quæ passim in illivs problematibvs habentvr. Opvs theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis præsertim vtile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturæ Sacræ, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quæstionum, & rerum, quæ passim agitantur. Lvtetiæ Parisiorvm: sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1623. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/22012666/.

APA citation style:

Mersenne, M., Bacchius, S. & Le Fèvre De La Boderie, G. (1623) F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla. Quæstiones celeberrimæ in Genesim, cvm accvrata textvs explicatione. In hoc volvmine athei, et deistæ impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vvlgata editio ab hæreticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Græcorum, & Hebræorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fvse refellvntvr, quæ passim in illivs problematibvs habentvr. Opvs theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis præsertim vtile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturæ Sacræ, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quæstionum, & rerum, quæ passim agitantur. Lvtetiæ Parisiorvm: sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/22012666/.

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Mersenne, Marin, Senior Bacchius, and Guy Le Fèvre De La Boderie. F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minimorvm S. Francisci de Pavla. Quæstiones celeberrimæ in Genesim, cvm accvrata textvs explicatione. In hoc volvmine athei, et deistæ impvgnantvr, & expugnantur, & Vvlgata editio ab hæreticorum calumnijs vindicatur. Græcorum, & Hebræorum musica instauratur. Francisci Georgii Veneti cabalistica dogmata fvse refellvntvr, quæ passim in illivs problematibvs habentvr. Opvs theologis, philosophis, medicis, iurisconsultis, mathematicis, musicis verò, & catoptricis præsertim vtile. Cum indice quadruplici, videlicet locorum Scripturæ Sacræ, quæ in toto libro explicantur, concionatorio, quæstionum, & rerum, quæ passim agitantur. Lvtetiæ Parisiorvm: sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1623. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/22012666/>.