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Jean Hotman’s Syllabus of Eirenical Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes  and
J.C. Grayson
G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes
Affiliation:
University of Leiden
J.C. Grayson
Affiliation:
University of Leiden
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If one wishes to investigate the history of the development of an idea, two approaches are possible. One is to begin at the beginning, following the development step by step until one reaches the stage at which the idea attains its fullest flowering. The other approach is precisely the reverse. One chooses a point of departure in the final phase and then works backwards to the moment at which the idea first appeared. This latter method has many practical advantages in research. One can see the phenomenon in its most mature form, and thus more easily recognise its components and their earlier relationship.

When, some years ago, I decided to devote a lecture to eirenism in the sixteenth century, my preparation followed the second approach. I chose as my starting point the work of a renowned eirenist of a later generation, Hugo Grotius. Leafing through the fourth volume of the Basel edition of his Opera Theologica, my attention was drawn to an entry Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam. It proved to comprise a number of miscellaneous documents, some of them by Grotius himself, some of them his annotations on the work of others, and yet others evidently added to the dossier because they fitted into the framework of eirensim. I decided to delve more deeply into this collection, which was first published as a separate work in 1642.

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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 2: Reform and Reformation: England and the Continent c1500-c1750 , 1979 , pp. 175 - 193
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1979 

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22 Ibid 2, p 275.

23 Hotman, Epistolae, 121 (12 June 1593) pp 376-7.

24 Hotman, Correspondance, 118 (13 July 1593) pp 267-8.

25 Ibid, Brillare to Hotman, 121 (2 November 1593) p 270: ‘Pour le surplus je ne puis au reste que louer l’intention … de communiquer et publier ce que j’ay pensé en ma conscience pouvoir profiter’. See also, Hotman, Epistolae, Bertius to Hotman, 147 (19 April 1619) p 409.

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27 De officio pii viri ac publicae tranquillitatis vere amanti* viri in hoc religionis dissidio, auctort Geor. Cassandro (np 1607) in-80.

28 Hotmanniana 10, I, no 7.

29 PP 37-48.

30 Journal 2, p 271.

31 Ibid p 276.

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33 Grotius to Lingelsheim (8 November 1627) Briefwisseling, 3 no 1170, p 167; Grotius to Lingelsheim (13 May 1628) ibid, no 1257, p 300. Reifferscheid pp 337, 814-15, 846, 855. 907-8.

34 Grotius to Lingelsheim (13 May 1628) Briefivisseling, 3, no 1257, p 300.

35 Schiffpp 37-8 is certainly wrong in supposing that there were two editions of Syllabus II. What he calls ‘die Strassburger editio princeps’ (1) is undoubtedly identical with the Aureliae-edition, which appeared in 1628. But compare his note on page 382 n 2.

36 Reifferscheid p 8223-4.

37 Syllabus (Aureliae 1628) p 2. Copies in university library, Gõttingen and BN.

38 Letter from the ‘Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek’ (Darmstadt) to the author (1 March 1978): ‘Wahrschemlich ist [die Schrift] im Kriege vcrlorengegangen bzw. verbrannt.’

39 Schiff p 38.

40 Robertinus to Bemegger (14/24 May 1629) Reifferscheid p 361.

41 Ibid pp 506, 907-8.

42 See for details ibid pp 324, 361-2, 824, 846, 855, 908.