Historia Inquisitionis. Cum Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholocanae Ab anno Christi MCCCVII ad annum MCCCXXXIII
Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Item #49548
Folio. 32 cm. With 10 engraved plates ( inc. 2 folding, one in the text). 8 leaves, 284 pp, 10 leaves, 397 pp, 11 leaves. Full calf, hinges slightly weakened and light rubbing the leather at the extremities, overall a nice copy and clean throughout. The only edition with the original Latin text and also the most complete edition: the English translation of 1731 does not contain the Liber Sententiarum. Part 1 deals with the origins and history of the Inquisition, and the organization and functioning of its tribunals. Numerous sources and documents are transcribed in full. Among the plates, those illustrating the Actus fidei, the costumes worn by the poenitentes, a tribunal in session, are of special interest. Part 2 is a critical edition of a court transcript from the archives of Toulouse, recording the sentences against the heretics, mostly Albigenses and Valdenses, in the period 1307-1323. In the preface, Limborch states: "Here, dear reader, you have a book such as the Christian world has not yet seen in print". The author was a Dutch Armenian, a friend of John Locke, whose principles of toleration he shared. This is his best known work by far, it is without doubt the best early account of the Inquisition.
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