REMARKABLE EDITION OF GONZALEZ'S COMMENTARY ON DECRETALS

GONZÁLEZ TÉLLEZ, MANUEL. Commentaria perpetua in singulos textus quinque librorum decretalium Gregorii IX. Tomus primus [-quintus] [...] cum notis uberioribus ab historia, & chorographia, atque additionibus suis locis restitutis [...]. Maceratae; prostant Venetiis, apud haeredes Balleonios, 1766 [Venice: Baglioni, 1766].

5 parts bound in 4 volumes in folio (401x240 mm), half calf on marbled paper, green label with gilt titles and decorations at spine, untrimmed edges, pp. [16], 667, [1] at first volume, pp. [8], 567, [1] at the second, pp. [8], 615, [1] at the third, pp. [8], 212, CXII [actually, XCII] [8], 407, [1, blank] at last volume. Red and black title-page at first volume, woodcut friezes and initials.

REMARKABLE EDITION PRINTED IN MACERATA OF GONZÁLEZ TÉLLEZ’ COMMENTARY TO POPE GREGORY IX DECRETALS, ENHANCED BY HISTORICAL GLOSSES THAT DESCRIBE THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THEY WERE PRODUCED.

The Nova Compilatio Decretalium (1234), strongly wanted by Gregory IX, gathered for the first time after magister Gratianus’ work, the five collections of decretals issued during the papacies preceding his own.

POPE GREGORY IX (UGOLINO DI ANAGNI, ca. 1170-1241) was a strict, debatable pope. Acute connoisseur of the right, which he studied at the university of Bologna, he pleaded with pope Honofrius III for the approval of the Franciscan and Dominican rules. After becoming pope, he took part in the political diatribe that opposed the papacy to Frederich II’s empire, event that included two excommunications and a crusade organized together. During his papacy, Gregorio IX issued the first courts of the Inquisition, created the Franciscan breviary, placed the Talmud on the Index and promoted the canonization of St. Frances of Assisi and St. Antony of Padua.

MANUEL GONZÁLEZ TÉLLEZ (d. 1673, ca.) was a Spanish canonist and scholar from Salamanca. He was also a judge in the most important tribunals of the Spain (Granada and Valladolid) and member of the council of Castilla. Besides the Commentaria perpetua, published for the first time in Lyon (1673) and granting him academic popularity, González Téllez wrote the Conciliuni Illiberitanum cum discursibus apologeticis Ferdinandi de Mendoza olim editum, adiunctis nunc diversorum notis suisque uberioribus (Lyon, 1665).

References: ICCU, IT\ICCU\VEAE\006129 (just two copies, one at the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice and one at the Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo of Treviso). Palau y Dulcet, VI, p. 306 (quoting the second edition). OCLC, 22550729.

Some old repairs, usual traces of use and foxing, but overall good copy.