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Front matter

Of BENEDICTUS PERERIUS of Valencia, of the Society of Jesus: The SECOND VOLUME of Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis. Containing nine books concerning the History of Moses — on the Flood, the Ark of Noah, the Building of the Tower of Babel, the Confusion of Tongues, and other matters down to the Calling of Abraham: that is, from the fifth chapter to the twelfth. There is also added to this Volume a Book by the same Author On the Blessings of the Twelve Patriarchs. LYON, FROM THE PRESS OF THE GIUNTA. 1593. WITH PRIVILEGE

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Of BENEDICTUS PERERIUS of Valencia, of the Society of Jesus: The SECOND VOLUME of Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis. Containing nine books concerning the History of Moses — on the Flood, the Ark of Noah, the Building of the Tower of Babel, the Confusion of Tongues, and other matters down to the Calling of Abraham: that is, from the fifth chapter to the twelfth. There is also added to this Volume a Book by the same Author On the Blessings of the Twelve Patriarchs. LYON, FROM THE PRESS OF THE GIUNTA. 1593. WITH PRIVILEGE.1

BENEDICTI PERERII VALENTINI, E SOCIETATE IESU: COMMENTARIORUM ET Disputationum in Genesim, Tomus Secundus. Continens novem libros circa Historiam Mosis, de Diluvio, Arca Noë, Aedificatione Turris Babel, Confusione Linguarum, aliisque usque ad Vocationem Abrahae: id est, a capite quinto, usque ad duodecimum. Adiectus est praeterea huic Tomo, Liber eiusdem Auctoris de Benedictionibus duodecim Patriarcharum. LUGDUNI, EX OFFICINA IUNTARUM. M.D.XCIII. CUM PRIVILEGIO.

Translator’s notes

  1. Title page (PDF 8). This is the Lyon (Giunta press) 1593 reprint of the work first printed at Rome in 1592 (cf. the colophon at printed p. 577). It announces the volume's nine books (Liber VIII–XVI, Genesis 6–11, ‘from chapter 5 to chapter 12’) and an APPENDED treatise — the ‘Liber de Benedictionibus duodecim Patriarcharum’ (On the Blessings of the Twelve Patriarchs) — which would follow the main commentary (likely after the back-matter indexes, PDF 681+). Library stamps on the leaf: Colegio de la Concepción de Alcalá. ↩