IMPORTANT JURIDICAL FORMULARY FOR CANON COURTS AND TRIBUNALS

Monacelli, Francesco. Formularium legale practicum fori ecclesiastici […]: ab ipsomet authore appendice plurium constitutionum apostolicarum, […] illustrata / authore Francisco Monacelli ciue eugubino […]. Pars prima secunda editio. Romae (Rome): typis Aloysij, & Francisci fratrum de Comitibus impressorum reuerendae Camerae apostolicae, 1713.

Folio (330x230 mm), contemporary full vellum, with five raised bands spine (light traces of use and occasional stains, little repairs), handwritten title at spine; pp. [50], 376. Text in Latin, printed in two columns.
Title-page in red and black types; half-title: Formularium legale practicum fori ecclesiastici. Engraved head and -tail pieces, engraved headletters.

Important juridical formulary for Canon Courts and Tribunals, a practical book for jurists, containing both the laws and the casistics.

The first and only volume of the second edition (dated 1713).
It deals in depth with the Canon law, giving not only the corpus of reference, but also the jurisprudence relative to specific cases, procedural rules, decisions taken by the Roman Sacred Rota and by the Sacred Congregations.

The Author, Francesco Monacelli (died in 1714), was a priest, apostolic protonotary at Gubbio, general vicar of Venosa's and Iesi's churches; he was expert in Canon law, and celebrated for this formulary.

References: IT\ICCU\RLZE\032574 (2 copies).

Occasional brownings and water stains at a few leaves, not affecting the reading of the text. Overall, a good copy.