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WHAT MATTER, MOREOVER, IS CHIEFLY TREATED IN EACH OF THE NINE BOOKS OF THIS VOLUME, the Index which I shall here subjoin will show the Reader clearly and briefly. INDEX OF THE BOOKS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.1
QUAENAM PORRO IN UNOQUOQUE NOVEM LIBRORUM HUIUS TOMI PRAECIPUE tractetur materia, Index quem hic subiiciam perspicuè ac breviter ostendet Lectori. INDEX LIBRORUM SECUNDI TOMI.
In libro octavo, qui est primus huius tomi, agitur de scelerata filiorum Dei & filiarum hominum commixtione; de Gigantibus; de generali hominum corruptela, propter quam missum à Deo est Diluvium. In libro nono, qui est secundus, de laudibus Noë & de iis quae diluvio interierunt. In libro decimo, qui est tertius, de Arca Noë tam secundum historiam, quàm secundum allegoriam & tropologiam. In libro undecimo, qui est quartus, de iis quae fuerunt in Arca, id est, de Hominibus, Animalibus & Cibariis. In libro duodecimo, qui est quintus, de Diluvii generatione, incremento, & statu. In libro decimo tertio, qui est sextus, de eiusdem diluvii diminutione ac fine; & de sacrificio quod Noë, statim ut Arca egressus est, obtulit Deo. In libro decimo quarto, qui est septimus, de carnium esu post diluvium hominibus concesso; de vetito sanguinis esu; de Iride signo…
In the eighth book, which is the first of this volume, is treated the wicked commingling of the sons of God and the daughters of men; the Giants; the general corruption of men, on account of which the Flood was sent by God. In the ninth book (the second): the praises of Noah and the things that perished in the flood. In the tenth book (the third): the Ark of Noah, both according to history and according to allegory and tropology. In the eleventh book (the fourth): the things that were in the Ark — that is, Men, Animals, and Provisions. In the twelfth book (the fifth): the generation, increase, and state of the Flood. In the thirteenth book (the sixth): the diminution and end of the same flood, and the sacrifice which Noah, as soon as he had left the Ark, offered to God. In the fourteenth book (the seventh): the eating of flesh granted to men after the flood; the forbidden eating of blood; the Rainbow as a sign…2
…nunquam amplius venturi diluvii; de ebrietate ac nuditate Noë; de filiorum eius partim maledictione, partim benedictione. In libro decimo quinto, qui est octavus, de prima hominum ex tribus filiis Noë post diluvium multiplicatione; de prima item gentium, nationum & regnorum origine. In libro decimo sexto, qui est nonus, de aedificatione civitatis & turris Babel; de confusione ac divisione linguarum atque hominum per omnem terrae orbem dispersione; de progenie Sem usque ad Abraham; de Abrahae ortu, coniugio & transmigratione ex Chaldaea in Mesopotamiam.
…of the flood that would never come again; the drunkenness and nakedness of Noah; the partly-curse, partly-blessing of his sons. In the fifteenth book (the eighth): the first multiplication of men from the three sons of Noah after the flood; and likewise the first origin of peoples, nations, and kingdoms. In the sixteenth book (the ninth): the building of the city and tower of Babel; the confusion and division of tongues and the dispersion of men over the whole globe; the progeny of Sem down to Abraham; and the birth, marriage, and migration of Abraham from Chaldea into Mesopotamia.3
His autem novem libris subiunctus est commentarius eiusdem Auctoris in Undecim Prophetias Iacob, sive de Benedictionibus duodecim Patriarcharum, cuius Indicem, tam alphabeticum quàm locorum sacrae Scripturae, post finem eius Commentarii reperiet lector. Quae verò in singulis superiorum novem librorum, qui sunt proprii huius secundi tomi, visa nobis sunt cum ad agnitionem pulcherrima, tum ad varios legentium usus commodissima, eorum nos copiosissimum Indicem, & quasi Breviarium quoddam totius operis, hoc loco praeteximus.
And to these nine books is subjoined a commentary by the same Author on the Eleven Prophecies of Jacob, or On the Blessings of the Twelve Patriarchs, whose Index — both alphabetical and of passages of sacred Scripture — the reader will find after the end of that Commentary. But the things in each of the nine foregoing books (which are proper to this second volume) that have seemed to us both most beautiful for knowledge and most convenient for the various uses of readers — of these we have here prefixed a most copious Index, and, as it were, a certain Breviary of the whole work.4
Translator’s notes
- Heading of the book-by-book synopsis (PDF 18) — a brief table of contents of the nine books (Liber VIII–XVI). ↩
- Synopsis of Liber VIII–XIV (1st–7th books of the volume): VIII = sons of God/daughters of men, the Giants, the general corruption that brought the Flood (Gen 6); IX = praises of Noah and what perished; X = the Ark (literal & allegorical); XI = the Ark's contents (men, animals, provisions); XII = the Flood's rise; XIII = its abatement and Noah's sacrifice; XIV begins = post-flood flesh-eating, the blood prohibition, the Rainbow (continues next page). ↩
- Synopsis concluded: Liber XIV (rest) = the rainbow covenant, Noah's drunkenness, the curse/blessing of his sons; XV (8th book) = the post-flood multiplication and the first origin of peoples and nations (Gen 10); XVI (9th book) = Babel, the confusion of tongues and dispersion, Sem's line to Abraham, and Abraham's birth/marriage/migration (Gen 11). This matches the full sweep of the translated commentary (printed pp. 1–577). ↩
- Structural note (PDF 19): a separate commentary — On the Eleven Prophecies of Jacob / On the Blessings of the Twelve Patriarchs — is appended after the nine books, with its own (alphabetical + Scripture) indexes following IT. And the ‘most copious Index’ that follows here (PDF 20–67) is the subject index to the nine books, a ‘Breviary of the whole work.’ ↩