729 - Theology - Lactantius, L. C. F. *De mortibus persecutorum*, with notes by Stephanus Baluzi. Edited, supplemented, and compared with other versions by Paulus Bauldri. Second edition. With a copperplate title page, 2 folded copperplate illustrations, 1 copperplate illustration in the text, 1 fold-out table. Utrecht, Broedelet, 1693. 14 leaves, 307 pp., 464 pp., 32 leaves. 19 x 12 cm. Contemporary leather binding (spine restored).

Theology - Lactantius, L. C. F. *De mortibus persecutorum*, with notes by Stephanus Baluzi. Edited, supplemented, and compared with other versions by Paulus Bauldri. Second edition. With a copperplate title page, 2 folded copperplate illustrations, 1 copperplate illustration in the text, 1 fold-out table. Utrecht, Broedelet, 1693. 14 leaves, 307 pp., 464 pp., 32 leaves. 19 x 12 cm. Contemporary leather binding (spine restored). Lactantius’s treatise *On the Manner of Death of the (Christian) Persecutors* interprets the history of the Roman emperors as evidence for the thesis that the Christian God always punishes the enemies of his Church here on earth, namely through a violent and, in every case, miserable death. The work was not published in its entirety until the 17th century, after the manuscript was discovered in 1678 at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre (Moissac). — Slightly browned and/or stained. *