An early manuscript copy of the third and fourth books of Antoine Varillas’s history of medieval heresy.
 
Octavo. 199 [7] 234 [2]. Bound in full eighteenth century calf, decorated gilt to spine, with red morocco title label. A good copy, quite worn externally, with loss to the calf of the spine.
 
PROVENANCE: Ink stamps of the College De Pamiers to the first and last page.
 
An eighteenth century manuscript copy of the final two parts of Varillas’s history of medieval heresy.
“Varillas focuses his attention, when considering medieval heresy, on ‘la contagion’ in Bohemia and England, namely Wycliffe and Hus, and how this contagion spread to Luther, and hence to Calvin” (Bethany Hume, The Idea of Medieval Heresy in Early Modern France, 2019).