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Sabbath with the Jews.”—Johann Joseph Ignaz von Dollinger, Beitrage
zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Reports on the History of the Sects
of the Middle Ages), Munich, 1890, 2d pt., p. 661. There can be no
question that this source indicates the observance of the seventh-day
Sabbath.
Page 65. Waldensian Versions of the Bible.—On recent discoveries
of Waldensian manuscripts see M. Esposito, “Sur quelques manuscrits
de l’ancienne litterature des Vaudois du Piemont,” In Revue D’
Historique Ecclesiastique (Louvain, 1951), p. 130 ff.; F. Jostes, “Die
Waldenserbibeln,” In Historisches Jahrbuch, 1894; D. Lortsch, Histoire
de la Bible en France (Paris, 1910), ch. 10.
A classic written by one of the Waldensian “barbs” is Jean Leger,
Histoire Generale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont
(Leyden, 1669), which was written at the time of the great persecutions
and contains firsthand information with drawings.
For the literature of Waldensian texts see A. deStefano, Civilta
Medioevale (1944); and Riformatori ed eretici nel medioeve (Palermo,
1938); J. D. Bounous, The Waldensian Patois of Pramol (Nashville,
1936); and A. Dondaine, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum (1946).
For the history of the Waldenses some of the more recent, reliable
works are: E. Comba, History of the Waldenses in Italy (see later
Italian edition published in Torre Pellice, 1934); E. Gebhart, Mystics
and Heretics (Boston, 1927); G. Gonnet, Il Valdismo Medioevale,
Prolegomeni (Torre Pellice, 1935); and Jalla, Histoire des Vaudois et
leurs colonies (Torre Pellice, 1935).
Page 77. Edict Against the Waldenses.—A considerable portion
of the text of the papal bull issued by Innocent VIII in 1487 against
the Waldenses (the original of which is in the library of the University
of Cambridge) is given, in an English translation, in John Dowling’s
History of Romanism (1871 ed.), B. 6, ch. 5, sec. 62.
Page 80. Wycliffe.—The historian discovers that the name of
Wycliffe, has many different forms of spelling. For a full discussion
of these see J. Dahmus, The Prosecution of John Wyclyf (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1952), p. 7.
Page 85. Papal Bulls.
For the original text of the papal bulls issued against Wycliffe with
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