Ventes live - Lot 832
[Jansenism - Censorship]
Decretum […] Josephi Clementis, archiepiscopi et electoris Coloniensis, episcopi et principis Leodiensis […], quo prohibet scriptum cui titulus Casus conscientiae, aliosque id genus libros.
Liège, G.H. Streel, 1704
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Description du lot
4to: 47 pp. (worming in blank inner and fore-edge margins).
Contemp. boards, paper label on spine, archival document used as endpapers (rubbed, spine and front top corner def.). Good copy.
Official prohibition of the sale and possession of Jansenist treatises in the prince-bishopric of Liège, esp. the "Casus conscientiae, propositum per quendam Confessarium Provincialem [...]". On pp. 43-46 "Libri prohibiti quocumvis idiomate in lucem protrusi", listing Latin, French and Dutch Jansenist publications. Two small strips with manuscript additions bound with (between pp. 46-47).
Ref. De Theux 415. - Willaert 7151.