ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO (ca. 1411-1495). Summa Angelica de casib...
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ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO (ca. 1411-1495). Summa Angelica de casibus conscientiae. Venice: Giorgio Arrivabene, 4 June 1492.
Study copy of the celebrated Summa Angelica, enriched with the additions of the Dominican Girolamo Tornielli. One of the most successful manuals of moral theology and canon law of the late fifteenth century, the work of the Franciscan Angelo Carletti da Chivasso enjoyed extraordinary circulation throughout Europe from the appearance of the Venetian editio princeps in 1476, becoming an indispensable reference work for confessors, preachers and ecclesiastical jurists. Arranged alphabetically, the Summa systematically addresses the principal cases of conscience, examining moral, legal and pastoral questions ranging from adultery to simony, concubinage to usury, and slander to witchcraft, providing for each case an interpretation based on canon law and the writings of the principal medieval theologians.
4to (205 × 155 mm). Opening initial illuminated in gold, initials rubricated in red and blue, text in Gothic type in two columns (lacking leaves 5-15 of the preliminary index and leaves u2-u7 of the text; waterstaining). Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century full vellum. Provenance: several early annotations throughout the text. (1)
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ANGELUS DE CLAVASIO (ca. 1411-1495). Summa Angelica de casibus conscientiae. Venice: Giorgio Arrivabene, 4 June 1492.
Study copy of the celebrated Summa Angelica, enriched with the additions of the Dominican Girolamo Tornielli. One of the most successful manuals of moral theology and canon law of the late fifteenth century, the work of the Franciscan Angelo Carletti da Chivasso enjoyed extraordinary circulation throughout Europe from the appearance of the Venetian editio princeps in 1476, becoming an indispensable reference work for confessors, preachers and ecclesiastical jurists. Arranged alphabetically, the Summa systematically addresses the principal cases of conscience, examining moral, legal and pastoral questions ranging from adultery to simony, concubinage to usury, and slander to witchcraft, providing for each case an interpretation based on canon law and the writings of the principal medieval theologians.
4to (205 × 155 mm). Opening initial illuminated in gold, initials rubricated in red and blue, text in Gothic type in two columns (lacking leaves 5-15 of the preliminary index and leaves u2-u7 of the text; waterstaining). Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century full vellum. Provenance: several early annotations throughout the text. (1)
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