The Quatuor concilia generalia (Tomus primus quatuor Conciliorum generalium & Tomus secundus quatuor Conciliorum generalium) was a two volume book published in 1524 in Paris. It was edited by Jacques Merlin, printed by Jean Cornilleau and published by Galliot du Pré. It concerns four Ecumenical councils: the Third Council of Constantinople (Sixth Ecumenical Council 680âÂÂ681), the controversial Second Council of Nicaea (Seventh Ecumenical Council 787), the Council of Constance (sixteenth Ecumenical Council 1414-18) and the dramatic Council of Basel (seventeenth Ecumenical Council 1431âÂÂ1449).
There are very few known extant copies:
In volume one (Tomus primus) of the copy in the Bodleian there is the first example of an English bookplate David Pearson has suggested that the bookplate â painted on paper rather than printed â may have been put there by someone donating the book to Wolsey. Such a bookplate is not to be found in the second volume.