Description:
Author: Cave, William, 1637-1713.
CAVE, William: The title page reads- APOSTOLICI: OR, THE HISTORY OF THE LIVES, ACTS, DEATH, AND MARTYRDOMS OF THOSE WHO WERE CONTEMPORARY WITH OR IMMEDIATELY SUCCEEDED THE APOSTLES. AS ALSO THE MOST EMINENT OF THE PRIMITIVE FATHERS FOR THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED YEARS. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A CHRONOLOGY OF THE THREE FIRST AGES OF THE CHURCH. BY WILLIAM CAVE, D.D. CHALAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY....London ,Printed by A.C. for Richard Chifwel at the Fose and Crown in S. Pauls Church-yard. MDCLXXVII.
Engraver: Michael Burghers
Physical Description: [36], xxxii, 335, [1] p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. (fol. in 4s)
The Contents:
23 Martyrs w/ detailed 22 full page engravings and 25 beautifully carved initials (most initials spanning 9 lines). S. Stephen, S. Philip, S. Barnabas, S. Timothy, S. Titus, S. Dionysius, S. Clemens, S. Simeon, S. Ignatius, S. Polycarp, S. Quadratus, S. Justin, S. Ireanaeus, S. Theophilus, S. Melito, S. Pantaenus, S. Clemens, Tertullian, Origen, S. Babylas, S. Cyprian, S. Gregory, S. Dionysius
I. The Epistle Dedicatory
II. To the Reader
III. The Contents
IV. The Introduction
V. The Life of...
VI. A Chronological Table of The First Ages of the Christian Church
335 pages. plus four blank leaves.
About the Author:
CAVE, WILLIAM: Church of England patristic scholar; b. at Pickwell (13 m. e. by n. of Leicester) Dec. 30, 1637; d. at Windsor Aug. 4, 1713. He studied at Cambridge, in St. John's College, and was made M.A. in 1660, D.D. in 1672, in 1681 D.D. by Oxford. He was vicar of Islington, now part of London, 1662-91; rector of All Hallows the Great, Thames Street, London, 1679-89; became chaplain of Charles II. and canon of Windsor in 1681; and in 1690 vicar of Isleworth, London. His reputation rests on his eminent attainments in patristics. His principal works are: (1) Primitive Christianity (London, 1672; reprinted, Oxford, 1840, in connection with his Dissertation Concerning the Government of the Ancient Church by Bishops, Metropolitans, and Patriarchs, 1683); (2) Tabul? ecclesiastic?, tables of ecclesiastical writers (1674; improved ed. under the title Chartophylax ecclesiasticus, 1685); (3) Apostolici, or the Lives of the Primitive Fathers for the Three First Ages of the Christian Church (1677); (4) Ecclesiastici: or, the Histories of the Lives, Acts, Deaths and Writings of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church That Flourisht in the Fourth Century (1683; 3 and 4 were combined and edited by Henry Cary under the title Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church That Flourished in the First Four Centuries, 3 vols., Oxford, 1840); (5) Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria (1688; in Latin, to the fourteenth century, continued by others to 1617 and reprinted, Oxford, 2 vols., 1740-43).
