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Hi - another possibility for that date might be Jeanne Guyon [1648-1717, authorized form of name, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon]. She did write an exegesis of the entire Bible, which was published posthumously [20 volume 1790 ed. is in Worldcat, though I think there may be another earlier in the C18]. As she was a controversial figure in France and imprisoned for long periods it might explain why someone would take a lot of trouble to copy her work without attributing it.
Good luck,
Alice Browne
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:27:52 -0800
>From: John Lupia <jlupia2@YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: Query: French exegetical manuscript, c. 1700
>
>Hi Bill:
>
>Among the French writers from the mid 17th century to
>mid 18th century on the Old Testament are Louis Cappel
>(Capellus 1585-1658), Hugo Grotius (1583-1645, Jean
>Leclerc (1657-1736), Richard Simon (1638-1712),
>Antoine Augustin Calmet (1672-1757), and Jean Austruc
>(1684-1766).
>
>
>
>Ludovici Cappelli Critica sacra : sive, de variis quae
>in Sacris Veteris Testamenti libris occurrunt
>lectionibus libri sex / edita in lucem studio & opera
>Iohannis Cappelli. (Lutetiae Parisiorum : sumptibus
>Sebastiani Cramoisy ..., 1650).
>
>
>
>Histoire critique du Vieux Testament / par Richard
>Simon ... (Paris : [s.n.], 1680).
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>
>
>Discours et dissertations sur tous les livres de
>l??Ancien Testament / par Augustin Calmet. (Paris :
>Chez Pierre Emery, 1715).
>
>
>John
>
>
>--- Bill Cole <bill@COLE.JAZZTEL.ES> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> I am cataloguing an item well outside my fields
>> of expertise, and thus
>> would appreciate guidance from anyone more
>> knowledgeable in this area than
>> I.
>>
>> The item is an extremely thorough manuscript
>> exegesis, c. 1700, of the
>> books of Ezekiel and Daniel. It is over 1,000 pages
>> 4to, written in French,
>> on very fine paper, in a neat, almost calligraphic
>> hand, and attractively
>> bound in contemporary calf.
>>
>> There is no name of either the author or the
>> copyist, who may or may not
>> be two different people. There is no date or place.
>>
>> Somebody obviously went to great trouble to
>> write (or copy) this
>> manuscript, and then to have it bound.
>>
>> Are such manuscripts common?
>>
>> Why the anonymity? Was it because such details
>> didn't matter to the
>> author, or might it have been from fear of religious
>> persecution?
>>
>> Were printed exegeses of Old Testament books
>> common at the time? I know
>> that Bossuet wrote (at about the same time) about
>> the Psalms, Isaiah, and
>> Job.
>>
>> Are there any individuals who specialize in such
>> writings?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
>> Bill Cole
>> Cole & Contreras Books
>>
>
>
>John N. Lupia, III
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