Michel Le Vassor LETTRES ET MEMOIRES DE FRANCOIS DE VARGAS DE PIERRE DE MALVENDA ET DE QUELQUES EVEQUE D ESPAGNE TOUCHANT LE CONCILE DE TRENTE 1699 Leatherbound Chez Pierre Brunel Council of Trent Catholic Church Doctrine Ecumenical Council Spanish Church
Title: Lettres et Memoires de Francois de Vargas, de Pierre de Malvenda, et de quelques Eveques d'Espagne Touchant le Concile de Trente
Author: Michel Le Vassor - Michel le Vassor was a French Oratorian priest and author, who became a Protestant in exile in England. He is known for theological, historical and political works.
Publisher: Chez Pierre Brunel, Marchand Libraire
City: Amsterdam
Year: 1699
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 567 pages plus table
Width: 5" Height: 7.75"
Book Details: This antique volume is bound in full leather with raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and tooling in the panels. The volume, loosely translated to English as "Letters and Memoirs of Francois de Vargas, Pierre de Malvenda, and a Few Spanish Bishops on the Council of Trent," is adorned with a engraved frontispiece of the Council of Trent as well as an engraved portrait plate of "M. Guill. Trumbull" to whom the volume is dedicated.

The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

The Council issued condemnations of what it defined to be heresies committed by proponents of Protestantism, and also issued key statements and clarifications of the Church's doctrine and teachings, including scripture, the Biblical canon, sacred tradition, original sin, justification, salvation, the sacraments, the Mass and the veneration of saints. The Council met for twenty-five sessions between 13 December 1545 and 4 December 1563. Pope Paul III, who convoked the Council, oversaw the first eight sessions (1545–47), while the twelfth to sixteenth sessions (1551–52) were overseen by Pope Julius III and the seventeenth to twenty-fifth sessions (1562–63) by Pope Pius IV.

The consequences of the Council were also significant in regards to the Church's liturgy and practices. During its deliberations, the Council made the Vulgate the official example of the Biblical canon and commissioned the creation of a standard version, although this was not achieved until the 1590s. In 1565, a year after the Council finished its work, Pius IV issued the Tridentine Creed (after Tridentum, Trent's Latin name) and his successor Pius V then issued the Roman Catechism and revisions of the Breviary and Missal in, respectively, 1566, 1568 and 1570. These, in turn, led to the codification of the Tridentine Mass, which remained the Church's primary form of the Mass for the next four hundred years.
Condition / Notes: This handsomely bound leather volume displays some typical indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. The binding is sound, however the front hinge is cracked. The text block is firm and text is clear and crisp on very clean pages. A personal bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown endpaper.

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