Beschrijving
Groningen, J.B. Huber, 1897, (6),154pp. (partly uncut) original paper softcover binding with reenforced spine, dissertation of this religious subject by Geert Nijhoff born in Farmsum on Vigilantius. Vigilantius (fl. c. 400) the Christian presbyter, wrote a work, no longer extant, which opposed a number of common 5th-century practices and which inspired one of the most violent of the polemical treatises of Jerome (died 420). Vigilantius was born about 370 at Calagurris (current Saint Martory) in Aquitania, where his father kept an inn on the great Roman road from Gallia Aquitania to Spain. While still a youth his talent became known to Sulpicius Severus (c. 363 – c. 425), who had estates in that neighborhood, and in 395 Sulpicius, who probably baptized him, sent him with letters to Paulinus of Nola, where he met with a friendly reception. Some Protestant historians regard Vigilantius, along with Jovinian, Aerius of Sebaste and Helvidius, as 4th-5th century early proto-protestants. Scarce.
