The False Decretals By E. H. Davenport, B.A. Late Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford Lothian Prizeman, 1914

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8vo. pp. xxiv, 111, [1]. Signatures: [A]13 B-H8. Includes folded genealogical table. Bookplate: Librarium Collegii Cheltoniensis. Author’s presentation copy: “Cheltenham College Library With The Author’s Compliments, Christmas, 1916” inscribed on front flyleaf. The preface states: “The present thesis has grown out of the Lothian essay for 1914 on the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals.” The so-called False Decretals, often grouped with the Donatio Constantini but in fact much more restricted in their scope and some two centuries later, were first printed in Merlin’s Tomus primus [-secundus] quatuor conciliorum generalium (1524, see Bib# 4102689/Fr# 158 in this collection), and proved spurious by–among others–Bodley’s librarian Thomas James (1612, see Bib# 4102690/Fr# 159) and David Blondel (1628, see Bib# 4102691/Fr# 160). Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.