Antoine ARNAULD, Pierre NICOLE
La perpetuité de la foy de l'eglise catholique touchant l'eucharistie deffendue contre le livre du sieur Claude
Chez Charles Savreux|à Paris 1669|18.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition. Printer's device on title page, a vignette with the arms of Clement VI.
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Speckled brown sheep title label. One split at head. One white stain at tail. Rubbing. Good copy.
The work is a response to the book by the Protestant minister Claude, which was itself an attack on a book by Aubertin. The work of Arnaud and Nicole goes beyond the simple framework of polemic and contestation of the arguments in Claude's book; it aims to be an exhaustive treatise on the Eucharist and the mysteries of the holy mass by accumulating historical evidence, notably that borrowed from the Eastern chu
Contemporary full speckled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Speckled brown sheep title label. One split at head. One white stain at tail. Rubbing. Good copy.
The work is a response to the book by the Protestant minister Claude, which was itself an attack on a book by Aubertin. The work of Arnaud and Nicole goes beyond the simple framework of polemic and contestation of the arguments in Claude's book; it aims to be an exhaustive treatise on the Eucharist and the mysteries of the holy mass by accumulating historical evidence, notably that borrowed from the Eastern chu
€500