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Title
Jehova Vindex.
Uniform title
Commentaires de l'estat de la religion. English. Abridgement.
Created/published
Imprinted in Geneva : Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1580.
Description
208 p.
Associated name
Memmius, Conrad, author.
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 270964 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Professor Emile V. Telle Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "[HENRI IV]. [ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE]. [EUROPEAN AMERICANA]. [CAROLINE LITERATURE]. ORBIS CHRISTIANI STATUS (1590) / [Jean de Serres] V. Partis Commentariorum de statu religionis et reipublicae in regno Galliae (1580) / [Jacobus Francus, i.e. Conrad Memmius] Jehova Vindex (1590). Geneva, Leiden and Bremen: E. Vignon & Bernhardus Petrus, 1580. Dates: 1580-1590. Together 3 works in one volume. 8vo. (ORBIS): 174 pp., 2 blank ff. (COMMENTARIORUM): 8 ff., 208 pp. (JEHOVA VIDEX): 2 parts in one volume. 12 ff., 34 ff. Contemporary half pigskin blind-tooled, upper compartment with the monogram of the first owner "M.M.H." in the lower the date "1590," boards painted black, sprinkled edges (front endleaf loosening). In very good antiquarian condition. Preserved in a fitted cloth case. Very good. Hardcover. (#369). Jacobus Francus (i.e. Conrad Memmius) JEHOVA VINDEX concerns the execution of power in France, and references the massacre of the Huguenots in Vassy in 1562 (fol. B2v) and Elizabeth I (B3v). Memmius also states that in 1585 (the year of the formation of the Catholic League), the Spanish sought to invade England (A4v). "The author of this somewhat rare opuscule, published just after the accession of Henry IV, quotes with approval the sentiment of Tertullian that the monarch is second only to God. There is no third power that is free from Subjection to him, or has authority over kings themselves. The writer is opposing the pretensions of Sixtus V; but in his zeal to support royalty, he ignores the superiority of the states-general which was asserted by Hotman. He even goes to the length of justifying the King's predecessor in his treacherous murder of the Duke of Guise and his brother, the cardinal [...] Whether the author, who calls himself Jacobus Francus, was a Frenchman or a German, he fully represented the sentiment of the Huguenots, and was rewarded by the papal authorities by honorable mention in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (SOURCE: Henry Martyn Baird, "Hotman and the 'Franco-Gallia'" in: American Historical Review, vol. 1, No. 4 [1896], pp. 629-630, notes). First published in 1589, the present copy belongs to the second edition. VD16 F-2252. Not in Moeckli, Les livres imprimes a Geneve de 1550 a 1600. Ordered from Michael Laird Rare Books, D 9283, 2019-02-07, email quote.
Folger accession
270964