Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc (Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius of Peiresk / 1641 Gassendi), book

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Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc / Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius of Peiresk (1641) is a book by Pierre Gassendi.

Abstract

Gassendi reported that in 1633 French scholar Peiresc received by Ægidius Lochiensis (Gilles de Loches) some information about the existence of the Ethiopic book of Enoch at the library of Alexandria, Egypt. In 1636 Peresc actually purchased a copy of what he believed was the lost book of Enoch, but as Hiob Ludolf proved in 1681 it was a theological treatise merely containing a number of citations of and allusions to the Enoch tradition.

Editions

Published in Paris, France: sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, architypographi Regij, viâ Iacobaeâ, 1641

Translations

1657 -- The Mirrour of True Nobility & Gentility = Viri illustris Nicolai Claudij Fabricij de Peiresc (1657 @1641 Gassendi / Rand), book (English ed.)

"Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius lord of Peiresk, senator of the Parliament at Aix."

The work made British audience aware of Pereisc's attempt in 1633-36 at recovering the lost book of Enoch, as preserved in Ethiopic translation. The translator, the British physician William Rand, dedicated the volume to John Evelyn.

Translated from French into English by William Rand. Published in London, England: Printed by J. Streater for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1657.