The Quatuor concilia generalia (''Tomus primus quatuor Conciliorum generalium'' & ''Tomus secundus quatuor Conciliorum generalium'') was a two volume book published in 1524 in Paris. It was edited by Jacques Merlin, printed by Jean Cornilleau and published by Galliot du Pré. It concerns four

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: the

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(Sixth Ecumenical Council 680–681), the controversial

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(Seventh Ecumenical Council 787), the

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(sixteenth Ecumenical Council 1414-18) and the dramatic

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(seventeenth Ecumenical Council 1431–1449).

Known copies

There are very few known extant copies: In volume one (Tomus primus) of the copy in the Bodleian there is the first example of an English

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David Pearson has suggested that the bookplate – painted on paper rather than printed – may have been put there by someone donating the book to Wolsey. Such a bookplate is not to be found in the second volume.

Digital copy

* ''Tomus primus quatuor Conciliorum'
vol. 1

References

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