An Answer to the Provinciall Letters published by the Jansenists, Under the Name of Lewis Montalt, Against the Doctrine of the Jesuits and School-Divines: Made by Some Fathers of the Society in France. Paris, 1659.

NOUET, Jacques and others

Beschreibung

First edition of a book listed in ESTC under 'Nouet' (Wing, 'Nouat') as a translation of 'Responses Aux Lettres Provinciales Publieés par le Secretaire du Port-Royal, Contre Les PP. de la Compagnie de Jesus'. This book had been a collection of serial responses to the first 16 of Pascal's 18 Letters (PMM 140) by François Annat, Jean de Brisacier, Claude de Lingendes and Jacques Nouet, published in Liège in 1657. The present English edition includes replies to the final two letters. The translator was the Jesuit priest Martin Grene (1616-77). 'Grene was assigned the unenviable task of preparing a reply to the English translation of Pascal's Les provinciales, or, The Mysterie of Jesuitisme, four editions of which were published in England before 1659. His Answer to the Provinciall Letters (Paris, 1659) was more than a mere translation: he improved the original and added a preface on the history of Jansenism' (ODNB). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 12mo, [xviii], xxxiv, 520, [1] pp., contemporary blindstamped calf, worn with top panel missing from backstrip, trace of shelfmark in lower panel, title-page somewhat browned, otherwise internally clean and sound. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1664805810956

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Titel: An Answer to the Provinciall Letters ...

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair