Beschreibung:

The Journal of Monsr. de Saint Amour doctor of Sorbonne, containing a full account of all transactions both in France and at Rome, concerning the five famous propositions controverted between Jansenists and the Molinists, from the beginning of that affair till the Popes decision .
London: T. Ratcliff, 1664. 2 parts in one. Folio (13 x 8 ½ inches, 330 x 216 mm). 19th-century calf gilt. Condition: Browned and spotted, small chip to upper margin of title; covers with small neat repairs to corners, expertly rebacked to style. Provenance : William Penn (armorial bookplate dated 1703). a book from the library of william penn, the founder of pennsylvania. A fine association copy of the first edition in english of a valuable record of the Jansenist controversy, told from the point of view of one who rejected the Sorbonne's general condemnation of Jansenism. If Penn read the present work shortly after its publication, it would have been at an important moment in his own spiritual development: it was between about 1665 and 1667, whilst in Ireland, that he first became fully convinced of the Quaker message. Unfortunately, we can only say for certain that the book entered his library in 1703 or later, as this is the date on his bookplate. Penn returned to England from Pennsylvania for the last time in December 1701, and in 1703 had the present bookplate engraved and printed. Wing S296A.