Details

Other Title:

Theo-politica.

Subjects:

Ten commandments -- Early works to 1800.
Ten commandments.
Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800.
Kingdom of God.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, English.
Manuscripts, European.

Summary:

Theological treatise on divine governance, first published in 1659 under the title Theo-politica, or, A body of divinity containing the rules of the special government of God, according to which, he orders the immortal and intellectual creatures, angels, and men, to their final and eternal estate : being a method of those saving truths, which are contained in the Canon of the Holy Scripture, and abridged in those words of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which were the ground and foundation of those apostolical creeds and forms of confessions, related by the ancients, and, in particular, by Irenaeus, and Tertullian. Text divided into 2 books: the first book, on the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, consists of 16 chapters (f. 1-79); the second book, titled "The 2 booke concerning ye gover[n]m[en]t of God redeemer" consists of 24 chapters (f. 81-336), and includes chapters on each of the ten commandments.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: The divine politicks informe us of the kingdome of God and of his power, and how it is acquired, how exercised both in ye constitutio[n] and ye administration[n] of his governm[en]t ... (f. 3r).
Foliation: Paper, 341; [iii], [1-336], [ii]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Signatures numbered 1-84 in a contemporary hand, upper outer corner. First signature misbound, text begins on f. 3.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one hand, with some portions of text crossed out and corrected.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Cover worn and cracked, flaking from spine, a number of signatures are detached at the beginning.
Origin: Written in England in the second half of the 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by William Humphri [Humphrey?] (signature, f. i recto).
Anonymous gift, 1914.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 52 (Ms. English 20).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 206.

Contributor:

Humphrey, William, former owner.

OCLC:

155962835

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