MORNAY du PLESSIS, P. de. Mysterium iniquitatis, Dat is Verborghentheydt der Ongherechticheydt Ofte Kerckelijcke Historie des Pausdoms. (…) Nu in Duytsch overgeset door I. Fenacolium (=J. Vennekool). Amst., J. Evertsen Cloppenburgh, 1635. (24), 1077, (1), (164) pp. W. beautiful engr. front. 4°. Cont. vellum w. overl. sides. (Old name entry on free endpaper, a bit browned, faintly stained in places).
Rare Dutch translation of a vehement anti-papal treatise by the French Protestant writer and statesman Philippe de Mornay, Lord du Plessis Marly (1549-1623), and the foremost Huguenot apologist. First published in French and Latin in 1611. The book caused great controversy, partly because Mornay compared Pope Paul V to the Beast of Revelations, and was condemned in the Sorbonne in August 1611.€ 360