La Delegation Des Religieux: C'est a dire Examen et Rapport de la Puissance Legitime qu'ont les Religieux Mandians & Autres Privelegiez d'entendre les Confessions des Seculiers
Paris: Daniel Guillemot, 1622. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Very Good. Item #017197
Full limp-vellum, partial hand-lettered title visible on spine, 180pp, [6]. Text in French. Illustrated with head and enpieces, and printers device on title page and last page (Est Celeste quad Amo). Owners notation in ink on front free endpaper in an early 19th century hand, attributing the authorship to a Dominican Friar Yves Brinsard, the lower front gutter cracked, arrmorial rubber stamp on title page and spradic spaces throughout text in the margins, light damp staining to leaves throughout, vellum somewhat soiled, spine darkened with faded lettering, spine ends and corners a bit bruised. Very Good. This is an important text written about the 13th century Secular-Mendicant Controversy, where Mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans were in a heated, theological debate with the university masters and bishops of France. According to Michael Lynch in an addition of The Modern Reformation (Sept., 2022), he states the Franciscan and Dominicans had: "Freedom to preach and hear confessions in whatever territory they wished, the local Parisian bishops felt as if their ecclesiastical jurisdiction and influence was undermined ... Indeed, because the ecclesial duties of performing mass, burying the dead, hearing confession ... were being taken over by the Dominicans and Franciscans." A revised edition was authored by Dominican mastr Jean Carpone, and printed in Paris by Daniel Guillemot in 1648. The book is dedicated to the Chancellor of France. Scarce. An excellent example of an uncommon French ecclesiastical imprint.
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