Isagoge biblica, bibliorum sacrorum

complectens vocabulum, definitionem, causas, effectum, subjecta, adjuncta, & commendationem, certitudinem, rationem docendi & discendi, atque Pugnantia ... … Hamburg : Hermann Möller, 1601. two works in one volume, octavo (160 x 100 mm), contemporary vellum, spine with contrasting leather title-piece lettered in gilt and with date 1601 in ms. at foot (spine slightly rolled); front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Edward Joshua Cooper, Markree Castle, and later shelf label printed ‘Markree Library, Re-arranged in 1913 by Bryan Cooper’; first blank and recto and verso of title leaf with inscriptions of early Meoles family owners; pp. [304]; text in Latin; engraved head- and tailpieces, decorative initials; title page darkened, scattered light foxing and minor staining. [BOUND WITH] Gesner, Salomon. Daniel Propheta, Disputationibus XII. et praefatione Chronologica breviter explicatus … … Witebergae : Clementis Bergeri, 1606. Title with early ownership inscription of Guglielmo Meoles, pp. [472]; text in Latin, with side notes; occasional marginal staining, last page with early pen trials, else very good.

An early seventeenth-century binding with two works by German Lutheran theologians and Orientalists. The first is an Isagoge (introduction) to the Bible by Ambrosius Reuden (or Reudenius) (1543-1615). (Isagogics is a branch of theology that is preliminary to exegesis and is concerned with the literary and external history of the Bible). The second is a detailed study of the Book of Daniel, by Salomon Gesner (1559-1605).