Reference code
DWL/RB/1/400
Level of description
item
Title
Contents of David Blondel’s Of the Primacie in the Church
Date
1658-1699
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 9-24 (f 23v, f 24 are blank). Additional pagination pp. 1-27
Scope and content
A translation of the title and headings in the hand of the Earl of Lauderdale, together with similar translations of certain passages out of David Blondel’s De la primauté en l’Eglise… 1641.
‘Of Primacie in the Church: A treatise wherin The Annales of Cardinal Baronius, The Controversies of Cardinal Bellarmin The Reply of Cardinal du Perron are confronted with The Answer of the most serene King of Great Brittaine. By D. Blondel. At Geneve Printed for James Chouët 1641’
Finding aids
Argent / Black xxi.354; Thomas p.9
Publication note
- See Bulletin of John Rylands Library, vii, 105.
- For David Blondel (1590-1655), honorary professor at Saumur, see Corr 461. For date of Treatise see Corr 477.
- For Cardinal Cesare Baronio, also known as Caesar Baronius, (1538-1607), the ecclesiastical historian whose best known works are his Annales Ecclesiastici, which appeared in twelve volumes (1588–1607), see ODCC.
- For Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, also known as Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, (1542-1621), the Italian Jesuit and theologian who vigorously opposed the Protestants and whose chief work was Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos (3 volumes Ingolstadt 1586-93), see ODCC.
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