1701 Rare Latin French Book Bible - ECCLESIASTES of King Solomon & The Book of Wisdom by Le Maistre de Sacy.
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Author: Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French translator.
Title: L'Ecclesiaste de Salomon traduit en francois, avec une explication tiree des SS. Peres & des auteurs ecclesiastiques. (Including also "Le Livre de la Sagesse").
Language: Text in Latin and French.
Publisher: À Paris, Chez Guillaume Desprez, 1701.
Size: 8 " X 5 ".
Pages: 599-(16) pages.
Binding: Good full calf leather binding (upper part of hinges partially cracked but still very tight and secure - as shown, overall slightly scuffed and worn - as shown) under a protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Include nice title vignettes for each chapter.
Estimate: (USD 250 - USD 300)
The book: Original 1701 French Latin edition of Ecclesiastes -- one of 24 books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim (Writings). Originally written c. 450–200 BCE, it is also among the canonical Wisdom literature of the Old Testament in most denominations of Christianity. The title Ecclesiastes is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Kohelet (also written as Koheleth or Qoheleth), the pseudonym used by the author of the book.
Also including The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, -- a Jewish work written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt. Generally dated to the mid-first century BCE, the central theme of the work is "wisdom" itself, appearing under two principal aspects. The first aspect is, in its relation to humankind, wisdom is the perfection of knowledge of the righteous as a gift from God showing itself in action. The second aspect is, in direct relation to God, wisdom is with God from all eternity. It is one of the seven sapiential or wisdom books in the Septuagint, the others being Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs (Song of Solomon), Job, and Sirach. It is one of the deuterocanonical books, i.e. it is included in the canons of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, but most Protestants consider it part of the Apocrypha.