Christophori Matthæi Pfaffii, S. Theol. Doct. et Profess. Publ. Ord. in Acad. Tubing. Ecclesiæ decani et illustri stipendii theol. superattendentis Syntagma dissertationum theologicarum I. De genuinis Novi Testamenti lectionibus […]

Full title: Christophori Matthæi Pfaffii, S. Theol. Doct. et Profess. Publ. Ord. in Acad. Tubing. Ecclesiæ decani et illustri stipendii theol. superattendentis Syntagma dissertationum theologicarum I. De genuinis Novi Testamenti lectionibus, II. De oblatione et III. De consecratione veterum eucharistica. Adsperguntur Liturgia Grabiana et Fragmenta Irenæi anecdota cum adjunctis in editione Belgica annotationibus itemque Oratio in nativitaten Domini A. MDCCXVIII ab auctoreTubingæ recitata

8vo. f. [1], pp. [8], 758. Signatures: [pi]⁴, A-3A⁸, 3B³; [A], O3, 2F3, 2R3, 2Z3 unsigned; 2D3 missigned "D3", 2E5 missigned "E5", 2F6 missigned "2E." Contemporary half leather. Gilded spine. Yellow and brown panels. Red edges. Colored endpapers. Bookplate of Ecclesia Collegiata Lateranensis ad S. Nicolaum prope Pallaviuni. Library stamps with withdrawal “Ad Bibl. Acad. Land.” and “USM abgegeben.” Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Some parts have a distinct title page: "Liturgia Graeca a Joanne Ernesto Grabio, SS. Theolog. Prof. et Eccles. Anglic. Presbytero, ad normam veterum liturgiarum composita,"; "S. Irenaei Episcopi Lugdunensis Fragmenta anecdota, ex Bibliotheca Taurinensi eruta, ac Latina versione notisque donata,'; and "Oratio in nativitatem slavatoris in vigiliis nativitatis Domini, A. MDCCXVIII. Ab Autore Tubingae recitata." Includes bibliographical references (printed footnotes). Text in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, includes some text in parallel Latin and Greek.

Four new textual fragments of Saint Irenaeus, the second-century Church Father, were first circulated in 1715 by Christoph Matthaeus Pfaff, as discoveries made at Torino (see Bib# 4655345/Fr# 1411 in this collection). They were subsequently exposed by Scipione Maffei, and elaborately defended by Pfaff –who never confessed – in the present work. Pfaff ’s lengthy defence of his Irenaeus forgeries occupies pp. 573–724. The forgeries were then incorporated in the grand new edition of Irenaeus, edited by René Massuet (Venice, 1734, see Bib# 4103032/Fr# 1414), as ‘S. Irenaei fragmenta a Pfaffio inventa’, together with Maffei’s animadversions, Pfaff’s reply, and the definitive further rebuttal by Maffei. Pfaff was finally proven the immediate perpetrator by Adolf von Harnack in 1900.

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