A NICE VOLUME IN ITS ORIGINAL VELLUM BINDING WITH A COLLECTION OF WORKS INCLUDING A TREATY OF MORAL AND PASTORAL THEOLOGY BY VIVALDO AND SOME IMPORTANT TEXTES OF OLD BELGIAN LAW

[1.]: Vivaldo, Martìn Alfonso. Candelabrum aureum Eccl. S. Dei, continens lucernas septem ... In tres partes diuisum, compositum, septimo iam impressum ... auctore ... Martino Alfonso Viualdo Hispano ... Pars prima [-tertia]. Brixiae (Brescia): ex officina Thomae Bozzolae, 1596 (Brixiae: apud Thomam Bozzolam, 1596).
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[2.]: Cornet, Nicolas. Propositiones de gratia in Sorbonae Facultate propediem examinandae. Propositae cal. iulij 1649. Per M. Nicolaum Cornet, Facultatis Syndicum, Molinae et Societatis fautorem. [Parigi, 1649].
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[3.]: [Nicolas de Bourgogne - Pieter Stockmans]. Ius Belgarum circa bullarum pontificiarum receptionem. Editio altera, auctior et correctior. [together with]: Defensio Belgarum contra evocationes et peregrina judicia. Editio secunda auctior et emendatior. [S.l.: s.n.].
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[4.]: Anonymous. Species facti in causa discretorum in Provincia Belgica Ord. Erem. S. Augustini. [together with]: Antidotum contra memoriale quoddam, quod Rom.e dicitur exhibitum pro iustitia abrogationis discretorum in Belgio in Ordine S. Augustini. [S.l.: s.n.].

in-4to, 200x152 mm; original full vellum binding with squares, traces of ties at board-edges (occasinal spots, little lacks at end-spines), title stamped in black types at spine, light blue colored edges.

[1.]: 3 pt.; pp. [36], 278, [1], [1 b.]; [32], 231, [1]; [32], 147, [1 b.]; title-page in red and black; woodcut device with a motto at title-page and at the end of pt. 1 and 2; colophon at pt. 1 and 2; the pt. 3 (entitled: "Aurea appendix sive pars tertia Candelabrum aureum [...]") is dated 1595.

[2.]: pp. 41, [1 b.], [1 tab., folded and out of text], [2 b.]. Folded table entitled: Liberti Fromondi [...] Iustificatio super thesi nuper suo nomine Louanij in Scholis Theologicis defensa, published in Lovanio on 6 October, 1653.

[3.]: pp. 60; 59, [1].

[4.]: pp. [2 b.], 3-7, [1 b.], [10], [1 tab., folded and out of text], [2 b.], 7, [1 b.].

An uncommon collection of spiritual works, including a treaty of moral and pastoral theology and some important texts of old Belgian law.

[1.]: The title of this work by Vivaldo, Candelabrum aureum, makes reference to the Sacred candlestick which contains seven branches as the number of the sacraments.
[2.]: A rare collection of theological thought by Cornet.
[3.]: Scarce second edition, probably published in the second half of the XVII cent., of the two works attributed to Nicolas de Bourgogne (see NUC pre-1956, v. 69, p. 550) but also to Pieter Stockmans (see Latin Bibliography 15th Century to 1999), published first in Liege (Leodii: apud Sebastianum Creel) in 1645 and in 1665.
[4.]: Various texts, all in Latin but the last, which is in Germain.


Martìn Alfonso Vivaldo (1545-1605), a Dominican friar, born in Toledo by the family of Genoese origin and died in Naples; professor of theology in Savona.

Nicolas Cornet (Amiens, 1572 – Paris, 1663) was a French Catholic theologian. He studied at the Jesuit college of Amiens, took the doctorate of theology at the University of Paris, 1626, and soon became president of the Collège de Navarre and syndic of the Sorbonne (faculty of theology). In this latter capacity he reported to the assembly of the Sorbonne, 1649, seven propositions, two taken from Antoine Arnauld's Frequente Communion and five from the Augustinus of Jansenius.

Nicolas de Bourgogne (Nicolaus Burgundus)(1586-1649) was a Belgian theologian and writer, professor of legal history in Ingolstadt (Germany).

Pieter Stockmans (Anversa, 1608 – Bruxelles, 1671) was a Belgian writer, magistrate and Greek scholar, an important representative of the Jansenist movement and professor in the old University of Louvain.

Provenance: Hand-written list of the texts included in this volume at the recto and the verso of the first fly-leaf. Presence of some handwritten notes in pencil. Handwritten inscription "prohibitus" to the upper edge of the two texts of Stockmans.

References:
[1.]: IT\ICCU\TO0E\033162 (6 copies). OCLC, 635554998 (1 copy in Switzerland).
[2.]: IT\ICCU\RMLE\051334 (only one copy at the Biblioteca Casanatense - Roma). OCLC, 493469200.
[3.]: IT\ICCU\RLZE\011608 (1 copy) e IT\ICCU\BVEE\036249 (2 copies). OCLC, 800815231.
[4.]: Not in ICCU, not in OCLC.

Light defeats at the binding. Overall, copy in very good condition.