A treatise in eight sections, without any general title, written in the early days of the Reformation in vehement opposition to the new teaching on various points of doctrine and discipline, 16th century
The subjects of the sections are these:
- i. Man’s freewill.
- ii. Auricular confession.
- iii. Conventual vows.
- iv. Invocation of saints.
- v. Images.
- vi. Purgatory.
- vii. The sacrament of the altar.
- viii. The universal Church.
A prologue is prefixed, which begins thus: "By the great and damnable neglygence of prelates which have bene from theyre benefyces, and wolld not feede Christes people dylygently with the worde of God, nor wold not kepe awaye the ravenyng wollves heretikes from Christes sheepe, but lett them come yn to his flocke, heretykes hathe nowe devowred and destroyed many of those sheepe".
On a fly-leaf at the beginning is this noto: "Iste liber meo quidem judicio omnibus in rebus veritati religionis orthodoxae non consentit, etc., quia ab ea valde dissentit, etc.".
Dates
- Creation: 16th century
Extent
99 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
- Latin
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. D. 1340
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 1340.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 14069.
Custodial History
Inter codd. Tho. Rawlinson 616;; inde emptus pretio sex denariorum.
Physical Facet
On paper, in quarto
Repository Details
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