XIV.

“PRÆDAMITÆ――MEN BEFORE ADAM,” BY ISAAC DE LA PEYRÈRE¹

¹ Account of Peyreyra, Author of “Præadamitæ,” “Rappel des Juifs,” &c. Translated from “Lettres Choisies de M. [Richard] Simon, (1638 ‒1721) ou l’on trouve un grand nombre de Faits et Anecdotes de Literature. Rotterdam 1702.”

(Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lxxxii., November, 1812, _pp._ 432‒434; and vol. lxxxiii., June, 1813, _pp._ 614‒616.)

Another of his famous works, also published anonymously, was:――

Præadamitæ. | Sive | Exercitatio | super Versibus duodecimo, decimotertio, & | decimoquarto, capitis quinti Epistolæ | D. Pauli ad Romanos. | Qvibvs Indvcvntvr | Primi Homines ante Adamum | conditi. |

Anno Salvtis, | M.DC.LV. |

(_4to._ 22 _ll._ + 297 + 8 _pp._ [Synagogis Ivdæorvm Vniversis.]) [I. S.]

In the following year it was translated into English:――

_Men before Adam._ | Or | A Discourse upon the twelfth, | thirteenth, and fourteenth Verses | of the Fifth Chapter of the Epistle | of the Apostle _Paul_ to the | Romans. |

_By which are prov’d_, | That the first Men were crea-|ted before Adam. |

London, | Printed in the Year, 1656. |

(8º. 8 _ll._ + 61 _pp._ + 9 _pp._ + 35 _ll._) [I. S.]

_The End of the first Part_ (No more published)

_sig._ A.4. “To all the Synagogues to the Jews, dispersed over the face of the Earth.”

_sig._ M.8. “Terræ Sanctæ Delineatio” (A map of the Holy Land).¹

¹ In another issue in the same year the eight preliminary leaves are from another press. [I. S.]