Selected Bibliography of Primary Works

*           signifies Mather libraries

**          Harvard Library (to 1725)

[PG]     J.-P. Migne, Patrologiae Graecae Cursus Completus. Omnium SS. Patrum,
            Doctorum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum. Sive Latinorum Sive Graecorum.
            Turnholti: Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii.

[PL]     J.-P. Migne, Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus. Omnium SS. Patrum,
            Doctorum Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum. Turnholti: Typographi Brepols Editores
            Pontificii.

B

Baal HaTurim . By R. Yaakov ben Rabbeinu Asher ben R. Yechiel. Translated by R. Avie

            Gold and R. Eliyahu Touger. 5 vols. Brooklyn , NY : Mesorah Publications, Inc.,             1999.

Bacon, Sir Francis. The Historie of Life and Death. With Observations Naturall and

            Experimentall for the Prolonging of Life . London , 1638.

Baronius, Caesar. Martyrologium Romanum ad novam Kalendarii rationem et

            Ecclesisticae Historia Veritatem restitum . Romae, 1586.

Basil (Basilius Caesarensis). Homiliae in hexaemeron . Ed. by S. Giet. Basile de             Césarée. Homélies sur l'hexaéméron . 2 nd ed. [Sources chrétiennes 26] Paris :             Cerf, 1968.

-----.    Enneratio in prophetam Isaiam . Ed. by P. Trevisan, San Basilio. Commento al

            Profeta Isaia . 2 vols. Turin: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1939.

Bale, John. Historia Ecclesia. Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum, Hoc est             Angliae, Cambriae, ac Scotiae Summar ium, in quasdam centurias divisum,             cum diversitate doctrinarum atque; annorum recta supputatione per omnes             aetates a Iapheto sanctißimi Noah filio, ad annum domini M.D.XLVII. Autore             Ioanne Balaeo Sudovolca . Wesaliae, 1548.

Banier, Antoine. The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explained from History.             By the Abbé Banier . 4 vols. London , 1739-40.

*Bartholinus, Thomas [Thomas Bartholin]. Thomae Bartholini Historiarum

            Anatomicarum & Medicarum Rariorum. Centuria V. & VI. Hafniae, 1661.

Bayle, Pierre . Dictionnaire Historique et Critique . Amsterdam , 1697. First English

            translation, 1702. General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, in which A New

            and Accurate Translation of that Celebrated Mr. Bayle with the Corrections             and Observations printed in the late Edition at Paris , is included . . . London ,             1734-1740. 10 vols.

Becanus, Joannes Goropius. Origines Antwerpianae, sive Cimmeriorum Becceselana

Novem libros Complexa. Atvatica, Gigantomachia . . . . Antverpiae, 1569.

Beekman, Daniel. A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo , in the East Indies . . . .             Also a Description of the Islands of Canary, Cape Verd , Java, Madura. By             Captain Daniel Beekman . London , 1719.

Benjamin of Tudela. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela . Ed. by Marcus Nathan Adler.

            London : Oxford UP, 1907.

Bentley, Richard. A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World.

            Part II. A Sermon preached at St. Martin 's in the Fields, November the 7 th ,             1692. Being the Seventh of the Lecture founded by the Honourable Robert             Boyle, Esqu . London , 1693.

-----.   A Confutation of Atheism. Part III. A Sermon preached at St. Mary-le-Bow,

            December the 5 th , 1692 . Being the Eighth of the Lecture founded by the

            Honourable Robert Boyle, Esquire . London , 1693.

Berosus (Berossos), Babylonika , in Gerald P. Verbrugghe and John M. Wickersham,

            Berossos and Manetho . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P, 1996.

Bertramus, Cornelius Bonaventura. De republica Hebraeorum . Lugduni Batavorum,

            1641.

Beverovicius, Joannes (Jan van Beverwyck). Thesaurus Sanitatus: Schat der gesontheyt.             2nd. ed. Amsterdam, 1638.

** Bochart, Samuel. Geographia Sacra. Cujus Pars Prior: Phaleg De Dispersione

            gentium & terrarum divisione facta in ædificatione turris Babel; Pars             Posterior: Chanaan De Colonijs & sermone Phoenicum . Francofurti ad             Moenum, 1674.

** ----. Hierozoicon Sive bipertitum opus De Animalibus Sacrae Scripturae. Pars             Prior. De Animalibus in genere. Et de Quadrupedibus viviparis et oviparis. Pars

            Posterior. De Avibus, Serpentibus, Insectis, Aquaticis, et Fabulosis Animalibus.             2 vols. Londini, 1663.

-----.    Opera Omnia. Hoc Est Phaleg, Chanaan, et Hierozoicon . Quart. Ed. Lugduni

            Batavorum, 1712.

Boehme (Böhme), Anton Wilhelm. Enchiridion Precum, Ad Promovendum Solidioris

            Pietatis Studium Collectum . Londini, 1707.

Bolducus, Jacobus. De Ecclesia ante legem . Lugduni, 1626.

Bomberg, Daniel. Editor. Biblia Rabbinica . Venitiae, 1516-17.

Bompartius, Joannes. Parallela sacra et profana sive notae in G enesin . Amsterdami,

            1689.

Bonfrerius, Jacobus (Jacques Bonfrere). Pentateuchus Moysis, commentario illustratus,

            praemissis, quae ad totius Scripturae intelligentiam manducant, praeloquijs

            perutilibus . Antverpiae, 1625.

Boyle, Robert. A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, touching the

            Spring and Weight of the Air, and their Effects . The Second Part: Wherein are

            contained divers Experiments made both in Compressed and also Factitious Air,

            about Fire, Animals, &c. [Latin ed. 1680] London , 1682.

-----.    Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies, in Two Essays .

            London , 1684.

-----.    The General History of the Air . London , 1692.

-----.    New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, touching the Spring of the Air, and its

            Effects, for the most Part, in a new Pneumatical Engine . London , 1660.

-----.    Of a Degradation of God. Made by an Anti-Elixir, A Strange Chymical Narrative .

            London , 1678.

* ----.    Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures . London ,

            1661, 3 rd ed. London , 1668.

Bradley, Richard. New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical

            and Practical. Explaining the Motion of the Sap and Generation of Plants .

            London , 1717.

Brocardus, Jacobus (Jacopo Brocardo). Mystica et Prophetica Libri Genesis

            Interpretatio . Lugduni Batavorum, 1584.

Browne, Sir Thomas. “Observations Upon several Plants mention'd in Scripture” (Tract

            1) of Certain Miscellany Tracts . London , 1684. In The Works of Sir Thomas

            Browne . Edited by Charles Sayle. 3 vols. Edinburgh : John Grant, 1907-1912. 3:

            218-80.

-----.   The Garden of Cyrus ; or, the Quincuncial Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of

            the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically considered . London , 1658, 1668.

            Appended to Pseudodoxia Epidemica (Seventh Edition).

-----.    Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents, And

             commonly Presumed Truths . Seventh Edition. London , 1669.

-----.   Pseudodoxia Epidemica ; 1658. In The Works of Sir Thomas Browne . Edited by

            Charles Sayle. 3 vols. Edinburgh : John Grant, 1907-1912. 1:111-3:85.

Breyne, John Phil. “A Letter from John Phil. Bryene, M.D. . . . with Observations, and a

            Description of some Mammoth's Bones dug up in Siveria, proving them to have

            belong to Elephants.” Philosophical Transactions 40 (1737-38): 124-38.

Burgess, Anthony. The Doctrine of Original Sin Asserted . London , 1659.

Burnet, Thomas. Archaeologiae Philosophicae: Sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum

            Originibus . Libri Duo. Londini, 1692.

-----.    The Sacred Theory of the Earth (1684). Second edition. London , 1691. Edited by

Basil Willey. Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP, 1965.

Burnett, Thomas, DD. The Demonstration of True Religionm, In a Chain of

            Consequences, from certain and undeniable Principles . 2 vols. London , 1726.

Buxtorf(f), Johann. Biblia Hebraica cum Paraphrasi Chaldaica et commentarijs

            rabbinorum . Basileae, 1618-19. 4 vols.

-----.    Johannis Buxtorfi filii, Dissertationes philologico-theologicae . . . Accesserunt, R.

            Isaac Abarbenelis, Hispani, aliquot elegantes & eruditae dissertationes . . . ab

            eodem ex hebraea in latinam linguam versae . Basileae, 1662.

**-----. (translator): Liber Cosri continens Colloquium seu Disputationem De Religione ,

            . . . descripsit R. Jehudah Levita. Ba sileae, 1660.

-----.   Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum complectens omnes voces . Basileae, 1621.

            (Sixth edit ion). Londini, 1646.

**-----.    Lexicon Chaldaicum, Thalmudicum, et Rabbinicum . Basileae, 1629.

-----.    Thesaurus Grammaticus Lingua Hebraicae . Basileae, 1603.

**-----. Tiberias, sive, commentarius masorethicus triplex . Ba zilya, 1618/1619. 4             vols. in 5.

-----.    Rabbi Mosis Majemonidis Liber <ykwbn hrwm Doctor Perplexorum . . .

            Translatus: . . . in Linguam Latinam persicuè & fideliter Conversus, à             Johanne Buxtorfio, Fil. Basileae, 1629.