This beautifully bound little book discusses topics seen as important for orthodox Catholics in the seventeenth century, such as the location of Purgatory and what can be done for the people in it, as well as the issue of intentions in the use of indulgences.
Tag Archives | 17th Century
Cours Entier de Philosophie
This book is impressively designed, with a rubricated and illustrated title page, some woodcut headpieces and relatively modern looking typography.
Tacitus
This book, from 1682, is set in a beautiful late renaissance style Pica Roman, with the dedicatory preface in italic and is decorated with woodcuts head and tail-pieces and decorative initials
Irish Statute books
Three examples of books containing statute law for Ireland feature in the exhibition, containing legislation from the Great Charter of Henry III in 1225, a revised version of Magna Carta, up to the upheaval of 1798.
