Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1731 first edition of English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" by Philipp van Limborch

Added at 07:37 on 30 April 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1731 first edition of the English translation by Samuel Chandler of "Historia Inquisitionis" ("The history of the Inquisition") by Dutch theologian and author Philipp van Limborch who died #OnThisDay 30 April 1712. This is still considered important nowadays for its meticulous transcription of a manuscript by the Dominican inquisitor Bernard Gui long regarded as lost forever, concerning the rise and progress of persecution and the causes of it

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