Petrus Crabbe or Pierre Crabbe (1470–1553) was a

Franciscan The Franciscans are a group of related Mendicant orders, mendicant Christianity, Christian Catholic religious order, religious orders within the Catholic Church. Founded in 1209 by Italian Catholic friar Francis of Assisi, these orders include t ...

friar at the friary in

Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...

(Malines) in Belgium, where he became lector and librarian. In 1532 he was requested to prepare a collection of documents from the church councils, by first

Pope Leo X Pope Leo X ( it, Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521. Born into the prominent political an ...

and then Clement VII. In order to do so, he visited more than 500 libraries to locate copies. His work was published at Cologne in 1538, in two heavy volumes, under the title of ''Concilia Omnia, tam generalia quam particularia''. This included documents for both general and local councils, and is considered the first serious edition of this material. The book was widely used by

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and other disputants in the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

.M.L.Mattox &c, ''Luther at Leipzig: Martin Luther, the Leipzig Debate, and the Sixteenth-Century Reformations'', Leiden: Brill (2019), p. 259. He also started work on a bibliography of published works of classical writers, but this was never published and any manuscript is lost.

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Concilia Omnia vol. 1

Concilia Omnia vol. 2

{{Authority control 1470 births 1553 deaths Franciscan writers