COURCELLES, Etienne De.

Quaternio Dissertationum Theologicarum. Adversus Samuelem Maresium.INCLUDING: [ZWICKER, Daniel]. Judicium Viri Docti Anonymi de D. Samuelis Maresii Joanna Papissa Restituta.Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz. Boom [printed by Jan Janssonius?], 1659. 8vo. With Boom's woodcut publisher's device on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat) and a few decorative woodcut initials (2 series). With short passages set in Greek type. Eighteenth-century(?) paper-covered boards, blue and red sprinkled edges.

      - (48), 456, (8) pp. Bibliographia Sociniana 3067; Knuttel, Verboden Boeken 110; Nutt, Cat. Foreign Theology 1495; OCLC WorldCat (6 copies); STCN (3 copies); for Courcelles & Maresius: NNBW II, cols. 357 & 868,One of three known issues, all from Amsterdam in 1659, of the first (and only separately published) edition of Courcelles's four-part reaction to Samuel Maresius's 1658 Joanna Papissa Restituta, which had attacked Courcelles. It discusses the theological views of Maresius (1599-1673), who regularly engaged polemics with many opponents. Daniel Zwicker's anonymous treatise at the end (with its own drop-title) explicitly replies to Maresius's book. Courcelles's book was suppressed in 1661 by order of the States of Holland, probably because of its Socinian influences.Etienne de Courcelles (1586-1659), a Swiss Protestant theologian, immigrated to Holland in 1634, where he edited the Elzevirs' critical edition of the Greek New Testament. The STCN records two different imprints for the present edition (the other giving the publisher as H. Dendrini, that is, Hendrick Boom) but the University of Toronto's Trinity College Library appears to have a third issue with the imprint of Jan Rieuwertsz. All appeared posthumously in the year of Courcelles's death. The Polish medical student Daniel Zwicker (1612-1678) received university degrees in Koningsberg and Leiden, and joined a Socinian circle at age thirty, but intellectual differences with the Polish Socinians led him to move to Amsterdam in 1657.With an early ownership inscription ("Liber M[.]nry[?] Huysburgensis") and the nineteenth-century bookplate (partly torn away) of the Neander Library (Rochtester Theological Seminary). With some underscoring and a marginal note identifying the author of the Judicium Viri. A very good copy. The paper covering the binding is rubbed and has a few small tears, but the binding is otherwise good. Banned reaction to Samuel Maresius's Joanna Papissa Restituta by Courcelles and Zwicker.