PETAU DENIS THEOLOGICUM DOGMATUM TOMUS PRIMUS... Lot 11

PETAU DENIS THEOLOGICUM DOGMATUM TOMUS PRIMUS [TERTIUS] Dionysii Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Iesu, Theologicorum dogmatum [...] Lutetiae Parisiorum, Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, architypographi Regij, via Iacobæa, sub Ciconiis, 1644-1649. Three volumes bound in folio of : T. I [86], 841, [18, index rerum, index locorum scripturae, errata] pp; T. II [40], 875 pp. T. III: [8], 906 pp. Bindings in full vellum of the period, spine ribbed, purple title-pieces, decorated boards, cold stamping of a central diamond, boards framed by two cold fillets. Bindings slightly worn without gravity, good copies. Incomplete copy three volumes out of five. Denis Pétau, in Latin Dionysius Petavius, was a Jesuit theologian and philologist, born in Orleans on August 21, 1583, who died on December 11, 1652 in Paris. If Petau's fame rests mainly on his unfinished treatise, De theologicis dogmatibus, which was the first systematic attempt to expose the historical development of Christian doctrine, by interpreting the Scriptures from the councils and the Fathers, he was especially recognized during his lifetime for his researches on comparative chronology (Annales de Pétau or Petavian annals)