Verlag: Hendrik Strik, Amsterdam, 1718
Anbieter: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, USA
8vo, pp. [70], 436, [20]; engraved title page; title page printed in red and black contemporary full parchment, soiled, but sound. The last leaf contains a register of religious books, which, in addition to many others, can be obtained in the bookshop of Hendrik Strik. Campegius Vitringa, the elder (1659-1722) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and professor of Oriental languages. He was educated at the universities of Franeker and Leiden, and became professor of Oriental languages at the former in 1681. This short sketch of Christian morality, and the spiritual life and properties of it, is translated from the Latin Typus theologiae practicae sive de vita spirituali eiusque affectionibus commentatio (1716) by Johannes d'Outrein.