1765 COUNCIL of TRENT Fine gilt calf binding & wdct title

Council of Trent (1545-1563)

Sacrosancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini, Paulo III., Julio III. et Pio IV. celebrati, canones et decreta. Quid in hac Editione praestitum fit, sequens Philippi Chiffletii...

Tyrnaviae, Typis Collegii Acad. Soc. Jesu, 1765.

8vo. 7.6 x 4.8 inches.

8 leav., xxxii, 344 pages., 23 leav. Complete

With woodcut title page, wdct vignettes, initials & ornamental devices.

Fine contemporary full flamed calf with gilt morocco label & rich gilt tooling to spine, marbled inner boards, red edges.

Fine version of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), which brought in the counter-Reformation. The work of the Council had a profound effect on the intellectual community in empowering the inquisition with new censorship privileges as typified by the Papal Index of Forbidden Books, etc. Edited by French theologian Philippe Chifflet.

Fine allegorical woodcut title page.

Text in Latin.

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A fine and firm example in overall very good condition.

Minor rubbing to binding, some wear top to spine & to low.edge. Inside fresh with minor foxing, some light staining to low. corner, a touch dusty here and there. With very little pencil marking.

Manuscript notes to rear fly leaves & rear board. Bilioth. label to front inner board.

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