Title: Tomus primus quatuor conciliorum generalium
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">First of 2 folio vols. ff. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;" xml:lang="fr">[30], 257, [1]. Signatures: 3a-3e, a-z,
2a-2t6. </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Quadtaginta septem Conciliorum
provincialiu[m] authenticorum. Decretorum sexaginta novem Pontificum Ab
apostolis & eoru[m]de[m] canonibus Usq[ue] ad Zachariam primum, Ysidoro
authore. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Both colophons show that the
Parisian bookseller and publisher Galliot du Pré (d. 1560) had engaged the
services of the talented printer, Jean Cornilleau.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The current work is a
collection of acts of Christian councils by Jacques Merlin. It includes the
first printing of the so-called pseudo-Isidorian decretals, together with the
Donation of Constantine. The work discusses Ecumenical councils: the Third
Council of Constantinople (680-681), the Second Council of Nicaea (787), the
Council of Constance (1414-18), and the Council of Basel (1431-1449). See S.
Williams, Codices pseudo-Isidoriani: a Palaeographico-Historical Study, With a
Foreword by Horst Fuhrmann, New York, 1971 (Bib# 4102694/Fr# 163 in this
collection). The work was suppressed on publication and resultingly rare. It
was proved spurious by, among others, Bodley’s librarian Thomas James (1612;
Bib# 4102690/Fr# 159 in this collection) and David Blondel (1628; Bib# 4102691/Fr#
160 in this collection).</span></p><p></p>

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