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Synopsis Criticorum aliorumque Sacrae Scripturae Interpretum et Commentatorum, Summo studio & fide adornata, a Matthaeo Polo, Londinensi, Volume V, B.C. Wust, Frankfurt, c. 1694, 2020pp, leather, 10.5 x 15.5″, 4to Poor condition/as is. Significant wear and chipping to boards. Boards are completely detached from binding. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Chipping and cracking to spines; illegible. Library catalog info sticker on spine. Marbled fore edges and endpapers. Front endpapers have come loose from binding. No title page is present, though it is unclear if this is by design or if it has been torn out. Toning, age-staining, tea-staining, ink-staining, and foxing throughout textblock. Double-pagination on each page. Pages 2009-2012 are missing and pages 2013-2020 are bound out of order. Numerous pages show tearing with some missing text, particularly at rear of textblock. Minor marginalia in margins at front of textblock. Pocket for library circulation desk index card on rear pastedown. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. Matthew Poole (1624-1679) was an English Non-conformist theologian and biblical commentator. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from 1645, under John Worthington. Having graduated B.A. at the beginning of 1649, he succeeded Anthony Tuckney, in the sequestered rectory of St. Michael le Querne, then in the fifth classis of the London province, under the parliamentary system of Presbyterianism. He proceeded M.A. in 1652. On 14 July 1657, he was one of eleven Cambridge graduates incorporated M.A. at Oxford on occasion of the visit of Richard Cromwell as chancellor. Though he occasionally preached and printed some tracts, Poole made no attempt to gather a congregation. The work with which his name is principally associated is the Synopsis criticorum biblicorum (5 vols., 1669-1676), in which he summarizes the views of one hundred and fifty biblical critics. FORN-SHELF-0535-BB-2408-JC1213