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Document Details : Title: An Antitrinitarian Proofreader of Roman Catholic Scholarship Subtitle: Christoph Sand's Correspondence (1676-1680) with Pierre-Daniel Huet and Athanasius Kircher Author(s): TORIBIO, Pablo Journal: Lias Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Date: 2021 Pages: 309-384 DOI: 10.2143/LIAS.48.2.3291475 Abstract : Christoph Sand (1644-1680) is known as an antitrinitarian writer whose controversial claims on the ancient history of Christianity were widely discussed in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century European scholarship. That he was employed as proofreader in Amsterdam is also a known fact, but this has rarely received scholarly attention. This paper provides, for the first time, a full edition of Sand’s correspondence with Pierre-Daniel Huet and with Athanasius Kircher, the only Catholic authors with whom he is known to have engaged in epistolary exchange. The letters document the extent of Sand’s activities in the editorial world and add relevant information to our knowledge of his biography. The correspondence with Kircher, of which a single letter remains, proves Sand’s involvement in the editorial production of some of the books of the German Jesuit (Turris Babel, 1679, and the lost Iter Hetruscum) that were published by the officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana. Sand’s much more extended correspondence with Huet, while also showing him in the role of proofreader of the second edition of the French clergyman’s Demonstratio evangelica (1680), displays a learned exchange on theology and ecclesiastical history taking place between two disparate confessional positions. The critical edition of Huet’s letters additionally provides an initial contribution to the philological study of the French author’s vast manuscript legacy. |
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