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Edward Stillingfleet

Cranborne (Dorset) 1635 - Worcester 1699

Main works: The Irenicum (1659); Origines Sacrae (1663); A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion (1664); A Letter to a Deist (1677); The Unreasonableness of Separation (1680); Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity (1697).

Bibliography: R.T. Carrol, The Common-Sense Philosophy of Religion of Bishop Edward Stillingfleet, The Hague, M. Nijhoff 1975; S. Hutton, Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More and the Decline of Moses Atticus: A Note on Seventeenth-Century Anglican Apologetics, in Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640-1700, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1992, pp. 68-84; S. Hutton, Science, Philosophy, and Atheism. Edward Stillingfleet’s Defence of Religion, in Scepticism and Irreligion in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Leiden-New York-Köln, Brill 1993, pp. 102-120.

Bibliotheca Stillingfleetana

At his death, Stillingfleet left a library of nearly 10,000 books, purchased for £2,500 by Narcissus Marsh and today part of Marsh’s Library in Dublin, of which it is the most important collection. His collection of manuscripts was purchased by Robert Harley, and is now held by the British Museum along with Harley’s manuscripts. The index of the catalogue is in part illegible. The collection is divided into 16 thematic sections (A-P) and in subsections based on collocation (tabulae) and format. Within each tabula, volumes of varying formats are often listed one after another, and in many cases there are additions, anticipations, supplements and internal cross-references among the various sections.

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