A treatise of the corruption of Scripture, Councels, and Fathers, by the Prelats, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for maintenance of Popery and irreligion. By Thomas Iames, Student in Divinitie […]

<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;"><b> Full title: </b>A treatise of the corruption of Scripture, Councels, and Fathers, by the Prelats, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for maintenance of Popery and irreligion. By Thomas Iames, Student in Divinitie, and chiefe Keeper of the Publique Librarie in the Universitie of Oxford; of the Honorable foundation of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knight. Together with a sufficient answere unto James Gretser, and Antonie Possevine, Iesuites, and the unknowne Author of the Grounds of the old religion &amp; the new. Divided into V. parts. </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;"> 4to. pp. [24], 71, [13]; 103, [1]; 59, [1]; 102 [i.e. 101], [3]; 35, [3]. Signatures: [par]⁴ *⁴ A-L⁴ M²; ²A-²M N⁴; ³A-G⁴ ³H²; ⁴A-⁴H⁴ ³I-³M⁴ ²N⁴; ⁵A-⁵D⁴ ⁵E². Original limp vellum. Manuscript spine title. Small damage on spine, remnants of ties. Endpapers taken from encyclopedia. Each of the 5 parts has a separate register and pagination. Device on title page. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Printed annotations. Marbury Hall, Arthur Hugh Smith Barry bookplates. Printer's name from W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp; Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 14463.</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;">In the present work, the Bodley’s librarian Thomas James (1573?-1629) proved the so-called False Decretals, or pseudo-Isidorian Decretals (first printed in Merlin’s Tomus primus [-secundus] quatuor conciliorum generalium (1524, Bib# 4102689/Fr# 158), to be spurious. The "unknown author of the Grounds of the old religion and the new" in the title is Edward Maihew: see English Short Title Catalogue online, S107801. </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/catalog/bib_4102690" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record. </a></span></span></p>