Bizkaiko Foru Librutegia
Right. I don’t speak Basque either, but thanks to a comment on the post-Reformation Digital Library site I was able to download a copy of Theodore Beza’s 1559 Confession de la foy Christienne from the Bizkaiko Foru Librutegia. I also downloaded a very rare copy of Alfonso Salmeron’s commentary, such as it is, on the whole New Testament (Mastricht - a 17th c. Reformed theologian and exegete at Utrecht - goes after Salmeron - a 16th c. Jesuit exegete - in a few places, so I needed to reference this). I also found quite a bit of other Spanish theologians from the 16th and 17th century, including a 1689 work against Reformed Theology by a Jesuit theologian, Didaco de la Fuente Hurtado (If you want this work search by author name Fuente due to old Spanish nobility cognomens and such, even though Voetius frequently seems to cite him as simply Hurtado).
There is a trick to downloading though since it does not save directly to PDF. So if you want a highly compressed but good quality PDF, you need to “print” to file. If you have Adobe Acrobat Standard or better, this is no problem. If you have some other PDF print driver, it may work I haven’t tried. I will say that if you “save” rather than print, you may run into problems as I did the first time around as it is a non-descript “FILE” extension that Adobe reader and acrobat do not like.
If you are feeling adventuresome, here is your phrase book for searches: AUTOREA = author; IZENBURUA = title; ARG. DATUAK = (perhaps) Place, Publication, Date as it appears in the language of the work; GAIA = topic; SIGNATURA = shelfmark. Make sure that under Katalogoa you select: Librutegi Digitala.
If you are not feeling adventuresome, here is the English version of the site.
As far as the shelf mark is concerned, you can browse the works around it. So when I found Hurtado’s work, I also found a few other works in a Jesuit and Molinist vein such as Francisco Palanco’s Tractatus de Providentia Dei concordata cum humana libertate, et sanctitate diuina. That is quite a helpful layout for a digital library.
Enjoy!
