Highlights from Bridwell Library: Theology and Church History

Title

Highlights from Bridwell Library: Theology and Church History

Description

Showcase of featured items within Bridwell Library's collection that focus on theology and church history.

Creator

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Publisher

SMU Libraries

Collection Items

BRMS 3
Papal Bull confirming possessions of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Pierre at Meobecq within the diocese of Bourges, France.

06670
This three-part work was the most comprehensive and systematic statement of medieval Christian dogma. Printed by Johann Mentelin, the first successful printer located outside of Mainz.

BRMS 93
Biblical history written by Peter Comestor, Chancellor of Notre Dame in Paris. One of the most important teaching texts of the middle ages.

06055
One of the foundational texts of the Christian tradition. Printed in 1467, it is the first of seventeen Latin editions printed during the fifteenth century.

06327
A compilation of all of the papal decrees and canon laws that had been approved between 1140 and 1234. This vellum copy is one of forty printed and one of the twelve remaining copies today.

06401
English translation of de Voragine's Golden Legend, the popular compendium of saints' biographies.

07047
The only copy of a previously unrecorded Castilian indulgence for the living, for the crusade against the Muslims in Granada. Blank spaces left for name of the purchaser, place, date, etc.

BRMS 4
Written in the author's hand for presentation to the Convento di Santa Chiara Novella in Florence, 1496. This Italian version allowed for members of the Order to read in vernacular about their founder.

06347
Italian translation of St. Jerome's letters. This edition features full-page ornamental woodcuts.

06585
In one of his principal works, the Compendio di revelatione, Savonarola claimed that his apocalyptic revelations were God's call for the reform of the Church and the Florentine public.

BRB0010
First edition of the Roman catechism, designed to enable priests to instruct their parishioners more effectively in the basic tenets of their faith.
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