Jansenist Defence
SAINT-VICTOR.
Le pretendu ennemi de Dieu et de la loy refuté par le sieur de Saint Victor adressé à l’autheur deguisé sous le nom de Henri de la Mark. Lille, ‘chez la vefue Christofle Du Moulin’, 1680.
12mo, pp. 84; central horizontal crease throughout, a few light marks; a very good copy in contemporary limp vellum, title in ink to spine, fore-edge loops and ties, red edges; some discolouring; old Franciscan stamps to title and last page, nineteenth-century label to front pastedown ‘Collection Quarré-Reybourbon Lille’, old shelfmark in ink to upper cover, some underlining and marginal marks in ink.
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Le pretendu ennemi de Dieu et de la loy refuté par le sieur de Saint Victor adressé à l’autheur deguisé sous le nom de Henri de la Mark.
Very rare first edition of this interesting contribution to the Jansenist controversy, issued in Lille by the widow of Christophe Du Moulin.
The author here defends the priesthood against charges of Jansenism and heresy, supports de Sacy’s French translation of the New Testament, upholds the right of the faithful to read the Scriptures in the vernacular, and argues that so-called Jansenists are defenders rather than enemies of the cult of saints and the Virgin Mary. The underlining bears witness to the attentiveness with which a contemporary reader has engaged with Saint-Victor’s text.
Widow Du Moulin and her husband Christophe are obscure figures; this is the only publication bearing her name that we can trace on OCLC and CCfr, and the only work recorded by Arbour.
Provenance: Louis François Quarré-Reybourbon (1824–1906) of Lille, historian, archaeologist, folklorist, and collector.
No copies traced in the UK or US.