A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

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A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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WITICHINDUS Monk of S. Corbey in Westphalia.

WItichindus, Winduchindus, or Windichinus a Monk of Corbey a Monastery in Westphalia, of the * 1.1 Order of S. Benedict, flourish'd under Otho I. and II. He wrote three Books of the History of the Saxons, in which are comprehended the Actions of Henry and Otho the First, and which ends at

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the death of the latter, that is to say, in the year 973. They are dedicated to Queen Mathildis, Daughter of the Emperor Otho, and were printed at Basil A. D. 1532. at Francfort in 1577. A∣mong the German Historians printed in 1580. and at the end of a particular Edition by Meibonius at Francfort in 1621. Sigebert says also, that he wrote in Verse a Relation of S. Thecla's Passion, and the Life of S. Paul the first Hermit. These Works are lost; altho' in the last Edition by Mei∣bonius, there are certain Verses which are attributed to this Monk.

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