Libell[us] Apostolorum nationis Gallicane: cum Constitutione Sacri Concilij Basilien[sis] et arresto curie parlamenti supper annatis no[n] solve[n]dis, cum quibusdam alijs in quib[us] approbatur Concilium Basiliense.
Libell Apostolorum nationis Gallicane
Summary: The Second Council of Pisa (1511-1512), also known as the Conciliabulum of Pisa, was a French initiative to limit the power of Pope Julius II and to strengthen the power of the conciliarists. Pope Julius II condemned the meeting and in response convoked the Fifth Lateran Council, which secured papal authority over conciliarism. This is the first edition of a record of the council published by Jean Petit for a French readership.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁴ (C4 blank).
Imprint: (from colophon) Impressi Paris[i] opera & expensis Ioha[n]nis Parui, anno d[omi]ni M.D.xii. die vero xxi. Februarii.
Illustrative and Decorative Content: Large printer's device woodcut on title page.
Additional Details: Inscribed manuscript poem in a German hand, dated 1519 on title page verso, beginning "Simon, prelatum et commissarium gratie." The inscription is a satirical poem against the papacy. The text appears to be identical (with minimal variation) with the text of a pamphlet mentioned in another German manuscript miscellany (Newberry MS63) associated with the humanist Jakob Wimpfeling. This pamphlet is said to have been posted during the 1518 Diet of Augsburg and was directed against the papal delegation. The phrase "commissarius gratie" (commissionor of grace) likely refers to Cardinal Cajetan, who met with Luther during the meeting and had brought with him a papal bull affirming the papal position on indulgence and grace. See: Otto Herding. “Zu Einer Humanistischen Handschrift, 63 Der Newberry Library Chicago.” In Geschichte, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft: Festschrift für Clemens Bauer zum 75. Geburtstag, by Erich Hassinger, J. Heinz Müller & Hugo Ott (eds.), 153–87. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1974. The polemic poem does not name Cardinal Cajetan, but is addressed to Symon (Ad intonisandum Symonem ...), likely a reference to Simon Peter (the papacy, which Cajetan represents, is the office of Peter) and also to simony, the selling of church offices or eccelsiastical privileges. Back inside cover has a small booklabel "AHA" of the American book collector Albert A. Howard (d. 2017).
Petit, Jean, active 1492-1530
Paris (France)
Council of Pisa (2nd : 1511-1512)
Latin
French
Annates
Conciliar theory
Early works to 1800
Sixteenth century
40 unnumbered pages
21 cm
Text
books
Quarto
Renaudet, A. Préréforme et humanisme a Paris, p. 55
Index Aureliensis, 140889
1512 LIBE
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