BY JOHANNES FRANZ BUDDEUS

DOCTOR AND ORDINARY PUBLIC PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

HISTORY

OF HEBREW PHILOSOPHY.

TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISSERTATION

CONCERNING THE

VALENTINIAN

HERESY.

Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements, founded by Valentinus in the 2nd century AD.

A NEW EDITION

ENLARGED BY MANY ADDITIONS.

WITH PRIVILEGE.

This phrase "Cum Privilegio" indicates that the publisher had legal protection or a license from the authorities to print the work, a precursor to modern copyright.

Note Well
original: "NB"

A decorative red printer's mark or vignette composed of intricate, symmetrical calligraphic flourishes and interlaced lines.

HALLE IN SAXONY

AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ORPHANAGE PRESS

The "Orphanotropheum" or Orphanage in Halle, founded by August Hermann Francke, was a central institution of the Pietist movement and possessed its own highly influential printing press.

OF GLAUCHA-HALLE, 1720.