The history of the Inquisition / by Philip a Limborch ... ; translated into English by Samuel Chandler ... ; to which is prefixed, a large introduction concerning the rise and progress of persecution, and the real and pretended causes of it.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Limborch, Philippus van, 1633-1712.

Contributor:

Chandler, Samuel, 1693-1766, translator.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Historia inquisitionis. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Early works to 1800.

Inquisition.

Persecution--Early works to 1800.

Persecution.

Christian heretics--Early works to 1800.

Christian heretics.

Catholic Church--Discipline--History--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Inquisition--History.

Genre:

Early works

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 1. : illustrations, plates. ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Sold by J. Gray, 1731.

Contents:

vol. 1. The introduction: being the history of persecution

Book I. Of the origin and progress of the Inquisition

Book II. Of the ministers of the Office of the Inquisition

vol. 2. Book III. Of the crimes belonging to the tribunal of the Inquisition

Book IV. Of the manner of proceeding before the tribunal of the Inquisition.

Notes:

First English translation of Limborch's "Historia inquisitionis," originally published in Latin in Amsterdam, 1692.

Title pages are printed in red and black. Head and tail-pieces; initials.

List of subscribers in vol. 1, pages [xviii]-xxii.

"A catalogue of the authors out of whose writings the history of the Inquisition is principally drawn": vol. 1, pages [xi]-xii (second Roman numeral sequence).

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, T90184

OCLC:

4172842