TEOFILAKT - Accusation of the untruth of Raskolnikistvo [Феофилакт] Moscow, Synodal Typography, 1745 [Woodcuts].

TEOFILAKT - Accusation of the untruth of Raskolnikistvo [Феофилакт] Moscow, Synodal Typography, 1745 [Woodcuts].

S. (3), 150, 59, 6. 7 k. engravings in copperplate. Author of the engravings: A. F. Zubor. Tall. leather binding of period (damaged).

Condition: one card with loss of p. d. corner without damage to text. Minor tears, one card with stronger marginal tear. Engravings with traces of tears and former repairs. Cracking of the block in one place. Stronger soiling and staining of some pages, traces of former flooding. Some pages loose, some figures loose. Minor paper loss without damage to the text. Damage to the binding, strong tear on the spine. Traces of mold. Book after disinfection in the chamber of the Jagiellonian Library.

Rare first edition of the work of Theophylact Lopatinsky (1770s - 1741), titled "The Accusation of the Untruths of the Raskolas". "Accusation of the Untruth of Raskolnikistvo," published 4 years after the author's death, in 1745, in Moscow. Theophylact was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was a thoroughly educated man, well versed in Greek literature and respected in scholarly circles. Educated in Kyiv in the spirit of scholastic theology, he also introduced teaching in a similar vein to the Moscow Academy. [in part after wikipedia.pl].

The book contains many exquisite woodcut engravings with depictions of saints and biblical scenes. One of the engravings features a striking depiction of the "tree of heresy."