Owen, Some Authentic Acts of the Early Martyrs.
Owen, Some Authentic Acts of the Early Martyrs.
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Owen, E.C.E. Some Authentic Acts of the Early Martyrs. Translated with Notes and Introduction by E.C.E. Owen. Late Assistant Master in Harrow School. Sometime Fellow of New College, Oxford. First Edition. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press. 1927. c 18 x 12 cm. 183 pages. B&W Frontispiece. Later black half calf over cloth covered boards. Gilt title and decorations. Marbled end papers. Near fine condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean. Provenance: From the Library of Fr. Thomas Simeon Flynn OP, with his initials (T.S.F.) in gilt at the foot of the spine. Fr. Flynn was ordained a priest in 1969 and spent much of his life in historical research, with two great interests: Irish Dominican history, and the history of Christianity in Iran. His two most important publications are ‘The Irish Dominicans, 1536-1641’ (Dublin, 1993) and ‘The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qajar Persia, c.1760 – 1870’ (Leiden, 2017). He also contributed some thirty articles to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Fr. Flynn died in 2026.
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