‎PETAVIUS Dionysius S.J. :‎
‎Rationarium Temporum, in partes duas... editio ultima.‎

‎D. Petavii Aurelianensis e Societate Iesu Rationarium Temporum in partes duas, libros tredecim distributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio ultima, nonnullis accessionibus auctior facta, & ab Auctore recognita. ‎

‎Paris (Parisiis), Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy, Regis & Reginae Architypographum, 1662 - 1663. ‎

‎12mo. 2 volumes in 1: (XX),526 (recte 516),(76 index),(2 blank); 241,(7 index),(2 blank) p. Calf. 15 cm (Details: Back gilt, and with 5 raised bands; red morocco letterpiece in the second compartment. Marbled enpapers) (Condition: Binding worn at the extremities. Corners bumped. Owner's entry on the title. Small label on the front pastedown partly removed) (Note: This 'Rationarium Temporum' of the French Jesuit classical scholar, historian and theologian Denis Pétau, latinized as Dionysius Petavius, 1583-1652, is a summary, made for a greater public and for the use at schools, of his great work on chronology 'De Doctrina Temporum', which he published in 1627. The summarized version 'Rationarium Temporum' first appeared in 1633, and was reissued/revised/augmented many times. It was also translated into French, English and Italian. In KVK we counted till 1745 22 Latin editions, of which 8 were published by Cramoisy in Paris between 1633 and 1673. Petavius devoted a large part of this 'Doctrina Temporum' to the vehement criticism of 'De Emendatione Temporum' of the great protestant French scholar J.J. Scaliger, 1540-1609, who is considered to be the first serious modern student of chronology. The Jesuits however considered Scaliger, who lost no opportunity to attack them, an heretic and a great danger to the catholic church. Their opinion on his 'De Emendatione Temporum' (1593) was that it was worthless (frivolum) and a pack of lies (commentitum). Especially Scaliger's denial of the authenticity of the works of Dionysius Areopagita raised their anger. The Jesuits believed that Scaliger undermined the authority of the church, for in the work of Dionysius Areopagita the Jesuits found proof of the 'transsubstantiation', the belief that the substance of the bread and wine used in the sacrament in the Eucharist changed into that of the body and blood of Christ. (J. Bernays, 'Joseph Justus Scaliger', Berlin 1855, p. 81) Dionysius Petavius, a member of the Jesuits, an order called colloquially 'God's Soldiers', took up the fight against Scaliger with the publication of his 'Doctrina Temporum' of 1627. Petavius was a brilliant scholar, and he succeeded in correcting and improving the chronological labours of Scaliger on many points, even though his criticism directed against the protestant scholar was unfair and mean. The science of locating historical events in the ancient world in time is ultimately based on the work of Scaliger and Petavius) (Provenance: Name on the title of 'Hebert Le Jeune, 1720', lightly crossed out. The remains of the small bookplate on the front pastedown are of a Jesuit library) (Collation: a8, e2; A-2A12, 2B8, 2C2 (leaf 2C2 blank); A-K8, L2, M2 (2M2 blank) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Rationarium temporum in partes Duas, Libros tredecim tributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanáque historia Chronologicus probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio Ultima. Nonnullis accessionibus auctio facta, & ab Auctore recognita.‎

‎Paris, Sebastiani Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. Contemp. full vellum. Handwritten title to spine. remains of ties. Wear to backcover around lower corner. Light marginal browning. (24),703,(101),(4),291,(7) pp. With the name of the wellknown Danish historian C. paludan-Müller on front free endpaper.‎

‎Denis Pétau was one of the most brilliant scholars in a learned age. Carrying on and improving the chronological labours of Joseph Justus Scaliger, he published in 1627 an Opus de doctrina temporum, which has been often reprinted. An abridgment of this work, Rationarium temporum, was translated into French and English, and has been brought down to the year 1849.‎

‎RATIONARIUM TEMPORUM in partes duas, Libros tredecim, distributum. In quo aetatum omnium sacra profanaque historia Chronologicis probationibus munita summatim traditur. Editio ultima ‎

‎Franequerae (Franecker) Ex Officina Leonardi Strik 1700 in 12 (16x10,5) 1 fort volume reliure plein velin ivoire de l'époque, portrait gravé en frontispice (engraved frontispiece portrait by Pieter Sluiter), page de faux-titre gravée illustrée, page de titre imprimée en noir et rouge (title page in two colours, with engraved publisher's vignette), [8], 559 pages [37], 261 pages [4]. Denis Pétau, 1583-1652, Jésuite français. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Très bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎Rationarium Temporum in partes duas, Libros tredecim distributum. In quo etatum omnium sacra profanaque historia Chronologicis probationbus munita summatim traditur. Editio Ultima. ‎

‎Parisiis (Paris), Cramoisy, 1663. 2 parties en 1 petit volume in-12, plein veau époque, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons et de filets dorés, titre doré, coupes ornées de roulettes dorées, titre, 9 ff non chiffrés, 526 pp, 38 ff non chiffrés; 241 pp, 7 pp non chiffrées. Ex-libris manucrit sur la page de titre de Joannis (Jean) Cauvet de Nerval avec la mention Cadomi (Caen) 1720. Coins émoussés (dont 1 très émoussé), petits manques sur les coiffes, cuir un peu craquelé.‎

‎D. Petavii aurelianensis e societate Iesu, Rationarium Temporum in partes duas, libros tredecim distributum… editio ultima & ab auctore recognita.‎

‎ 1652 veau moucheté, dos à n., p. de t. mar. r., tr. rouges. in-16, (10ff.),, 526pp., (36ff. index) et 241pp., (3ff.), P. Cramoisy 1652,‎

‎Excellent abrégé théorique et que l'on a publié jusqu'au milieu du XIXe siècle. (Hoeffer). ‎