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Front matter

BENEDICT PERERIUS OF VALENCIA, OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS: THE FIRST VOLUME OF COMMENTARIES AND DISPUTATIONS ON GENESIS: containing the history of Moses from the beginning of the world up to the Noachic flood, explained in seven books. Four Indices are added: one of the questions; a second of those things that pertain to moral doctrine and the use of preachers; the third of the passages of Sacred Scripture; the fourth general and alphabetical. Fourth edition, much more corrected than heretofore. LYONS, at the press of Horatius Cardon, 1599. With privilege

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BENEDICT PERERIUS OF VALENCIA, OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS: THE FIRST VOLUME OF COMMENTARIES AND DISPUTATIONS ON GENESIS: containing the history of Moses from the beginning of the world up to the Noachic flood, explained in seven books. Four Indices are added: one of the questions; a second of those things that pertain to moral doctrine and the use of preachers; the third of the passages of Sacred Scripture; the fourth general and alphabetical. Fourth edition, much more corrected than heretofore. LYONS, at the press of Horatius Cardon, 1599. With privilege.1

BENEDICTI PERERII VALENTINI E SOCIETATE IESV, PRIOR TOMVS COMMENTARIORVM ET DISPVTATIONVM IN GENESIM: continens historiam Mosis ab exordio mundi usque ad Noeticum diluvium, septem libris explanatam. Adiecti sunt quatuor Indices: unus quaestionum, alter eorum quae pertinent ad doctrinam moralem et usum concionantium, tertius locorum sacrae Scripturae, quartus generalis et alphabeticus. Quarta editio, multo quam antehac emendatior. LVGDVNI, APVD HORATIVM CARDONEM, M.D.XCIX. CVM PRIVILEGIO.

Translator’s notes

  1. The true title page (PDF 6), fully legible. It gives the author's full name -- Benedictus Pererius Valentinus (Benedict Pererius of Valencia, S.J.) -- and states that this 'Prior tomus' explains 'the history of Moses from the beginning of the world to the Noachic flood, in seven books' (i.e. Genesis 1-5), with four appended indices. The imprint dates THIS copy to the FOURTH edition: Lyons, at the press of Horatius Cardon (Horace Cardon), 1599 ('Quarta editio, multo quam antehac emendatior' = 'fourth edition, much more corrected than before'), which matches the colophon on PDF 857. The leaf also bears the printer's fleur-de-lys device flanked by two putti, and later ownership marks of the Jesuit College of Alcala / Biblioteca Complutense (dated 1705). PDF 7 is the blank verso of this title leaf (only faint bleed-through of the title shows). PDF 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are scan artifacts (Google-Books cover; the vellum binding; a library ownership stamp; a flyleaf marked 'Revisado 1968'; and a blank) and are not part of the book. ↩