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[ 19 ] POLANUS VON POLANSDORF, Amandus (1561-1610). Partitiones theologicae juxta naturalis
methodi leges conformatae duobus libris: quorum primus est de fide, alter de bonis operibus:
quintâ curâ elaboratae & auctae. Cum indice ac tabulis perpetuis, quibus partitionum cohaerentia
clarè ob oculos ponitur. Basel, Konrad von Waldkirch, 1607. 8vo. (72) 483 (5) pp. Contemporary
boards covered with an old manuscript leaf. 950,-
Rare edition (not in VD 17) of Polanus’ influential compendium of doctrine. Polanus, originally from Silesia, was a
Lutheranwho turned to reformed theology somewhere after 1580. He studied inTübingen, Basel, andGeneva, spent
several years as a private tutor and teacher, and finally became professor of Old Testament at the University of Basel.
Although he published various biblical commentaries as well as a number of theological aids intended for students
and future pastors, Polanusmight be best known for his dogmatic works. One of these works was his treatise above, a
theology textbook thatpresentedthe fundamental doctrinesof the reformed faithas a chainof Ramistdichotomies.It
was first published in 1589 as a twenty-six-leaf appendix to a biblical concordance by Izsák Fegyverneki (republished
in the ten subsequent editions of this work), but the first expanded and separately published edition appeared in
1590. Polanus’ Partitiones had a considerable influence on seventeenth-century reformed dogmatics. - Dated owner’s
inscription on first endpaper, upper corner of preliminary pages stained, some browning.
Not in VD 17.