sacrosancti oecumenici, & generalis concilij Tridentini sub Paulo III Julio III Pio III pont. max. Agora Segunda vez Impresso.

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Second Valladolid edition, same year as the first, rare. The text appeared, hastily, more or less simultaneously in Alcal de Henares (according to Palu, this is the first edition in Spain), Barcelona, Granada, Salamanca, Valencia, Valladolid, and Zaragoza, and elsewhere, similarly, throughout Catholic Europe. Evidence of haste (or at any rate speed) is apparent from the fact that Pius IV had only 'signed off' the text on 26 January 1564. The decrees of the council were acknowledged in Italy, Portugal, Poland and by the Catholic princes of Germany at the Diet of Augsburg in 1566. Philip II of Spain accepted them for Spain, the Netherlands and Sicily inasmuch as they did not infringe the royal prerogative. In France they were officially recognised by the king only in their doctrinal parts.'The Council of Trent, the turning-point in the Counter-Reformation, created the modern Catholic Church. It represents not merely one of the decisive moments of the sixteenth century, but a moment whose influence is still felt all over Europe' (PMM, propos Sarpi's history of the Council).Together with an interim report, which presents a bibliographical curiosity. The last leaf is blank on the recto, but on the verso is an impression of f. 41v.: this has been crossed out by the annotator. The succeeding leaves are Licences and Privileges form another edition of the Canones & Decreta, the text of the Privilege being the same as that of our Canones & Decreta, but a different setting. Finally, there are 2 leaves, being segments of a large Vulgate New Testament (featuring Christ's walking on the water).The binding, which is presumably Spanish, but feels Italian, seems to preserve the original grouping of the texts, and the extras.