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'DR RODERICK'S GIFT'

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. Dissertationes tres de tribus symbolis, apostolico athanasiano, et constantinopolitano.

Amsteldaedami, [i.e. Amsterdam]. Ex Typographeio Joannis Blaeu, 1662. Second edition.
Quarto. [8], 103pp, [5]. Contemporary English blind-ruled speckled calf. A crisp copy, a trifle rubbed to extremities, small patches of worming to lower joint and edges of upper board. Pastedowns sprung, with the twentieth-century book-plates of Robert J. Hayhurst and Ely Cathedral Library to verso of upper board, the latter obscuring an earlier book-label in the style of Ely donation labels, but with text obscured, featuring the manuscript note 'Dr Roderick's Gift' and the shelf-mark D.20. Five further manuscript shelf-marks adorn the board and recto of the FEP. Head of title inscribed 'Dr. Rodericks gift to ye Library at Ely May 6th. 95'
The second edition of a study of the three creeds - the Apostles', the Athanasian, and the Niceno-Constantinopolitan - by Dutch classical scholar and theologian Gerrit Janszoon Vos (1577-1649), with early English provenance.

The seventeenth-century inscription in this volume suggests that it was donated to Ely Cathedral Library by Dr. Charles Roderick (c.1649–1713), Provost of King's College Cambridge, where he was later buried, and variously Prebendary, Canon and finally Dean (1708-13) of Ely Cathedral. As indicated by the later bookplate, this volume was dispersed at the behest of the diocese in 1972, at a Sotheby’s Sale at Hogdson's Rooms in 1972. It formed part of lot 604 on Thursday 9th March, bought by Hayhurst.
£ 750.00 Antiquates Ref: 16019