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Apostolici : or the history of the lives, acts, death and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the Apostles : as also the most eminent of the Primitive Fathers for the first three hundred years to which is added, a chronology of the three first ages of the church

Cave, William, 1637-1713 · 1682 · London : R. Chiswel · 45 pictures

Apostolici is a 1682 London church history by William Cave, published by R. Chiswel, recounting the lives and martyrdoms of early Christian figures for a scholarly and religious readership. Its pictures are small woodcut initial letters, a bare T and S set within scrollwork, putty-like cherubs, and leafy frames, offering a designer compact decorative capitals and ornamental borders from seventeenth-century English printing.

Fathers of the church

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