Title: Joannis Harduini, Jesuitæ, Ad censuram Scriptorum Veterum prolegomena. Juxta autographum
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. xviii, 237, [1] (blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: π² ( -π2) A-Q⁸ ( -Q8). Mottled calf. Tripple gilt filets on boards, gilded spine on 5 bars, red panels. Edges spread in red. Blue endpapers. Includes title vignette, press figures. Manuscript note "0=10 LK". Later note: "Très rare ouvrage dont le débût fut arrêté par ordre de jour (Brunet)."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><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:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Posthumously published work in which the Jesuit priest Jean Hardouin (1646-1729) elaborated on his hypothesis postulated in his ‘magnus opus’ ‘Chronologiae ex nummis Herodiadum’ (1693, see Bib# 8658317/Fr# 343.1 in this collection)</span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;"> </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">that all writings of classical antiquity, the Church Fathers, and the early Christian apologists were all spurious, and that they were defended by the “conspirating” regular orders of the Catholic Church. The present work includes a new, extended, preface (by César de Missy?). See A. Grafton, Bring out your Dead. The Past as Revelation. Cambridge (MA), 2001 for a good account of Hardouin, the ultimate sceptic, why spied forgery everywhere. See also A. Hiatt, The Making of Medieval Forgeries. False documents in fifteenth-century England. London, 2004, pp. 186 ff; ESTC, T126048; A. &amp; A. De Backer &amp; C. Sommervogel, Bibliographie de la Compagnie de Jésus. Brussels, 1893, chapter IV, column 107-108, no. 103. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039111949707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>