Author: SCHELSTRATE Emanuel :
Title: De Disciplina Arcani contra disputationem Ernesti Tentzlii Dissertatio Apologetica per D. Emanuelem A Schelstrate S.T.D. Bibliothecae Vaticanae Praefectum, Ecclesiae Antverpiensis canonicum.
Description: .: 11. Roma, Typis Sac. Congragat. de Propagandâ Fide, 1685, in-4°, 21,5 cm, (18)nn pp + 160 pp + (8)nn pp (last blank), bound in contemporary full vellum, inkstain on first (blank) fly leaf, printed ex-libris on first paste-down, nice engraved 18th century ex-libris tipped in at verso title page. Fine copy. E. Schelstrate (Antwerp 1649 - Rome 1692) was a librarian to the Vatican Library, he was highly esteemed by Pope Innocentius XI for whom he wrote the ''Oratio in Funere''. He gained a reputation as one of the first scholars to study church history in a modern scientific way. In this treatise the author refutes the German protestant Ernest Tentzel's ideas about Transsubstantiation (the change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.). .

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