[Rarebooks] FS: Fagnani, Prospero JUS CANONICUM

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Fagnani, Prospero. PROSPERI FAGNANI JUS CANONICUM, SIVE COMMENTARIA 
IN PRIMUM [-QUINTUM] LIBRUM DECRETALIUM. CUM DISCEPTATIONE DE 
GRANGIIS [FIVE VOLUMES + INDEX VOLUME IN THREE]. Coloniae Allobrogum: 
Sumptibus Fratrum de Tournes, 1759. [vi], [2], 646, [1]; [ii], 192 + 
[ii], 646, [[2]; [ii], 94 + [ii], 358, [2] + [ii], [6], 330 pp. Nova 
ed., aliis prioribus multo correctior, cum amplissimo rerum & 
verborum indice accuratissimo. LLMC 87-003. Illus. with engraved 
title vignettes, head and tail pieces, and initials. Folio (39 x 25.5 
cm). Full vellum with stamped gilt titles on spine, all edges marbled.

Each volume has separate title page, volume 1 has half-title: 
Prosperi Fagnani Commentaria in quinque libros decretalium. There is 
an index (after vol. 5) with separate paging and title page: 
Repertorium seu index generalis rerum ac verborum in commentarios 
Prosperi Fagnani super quinque libros decretalium: alphabetica serie 
digestus, & juxta materiarum varietatem subdistinctus. Page 203 
misnumbered as 103. Pages doubled columns.

Prospero Fagnani (1598-1678) earned the degree of doctor of civil and 
canon law at age 20 and the following year was appointed Secretary of 
the Congregation of the Council. He became blind at the age of 
forty-four but still wrote this commentary of the Decretals of 
Gregory IX, for which he became known as "Doctor Caecus 
Oculatissimus", i.e. the blind yet most far-sighted doctor. Though 
the commentary (divided into five parts like the Decretals) includes 
interpretations of the most difficult of the Decretals of Gregory IX 
-some of the most complex and disputed questions of canon law- it 
remains clear and precise. St. Alphonsus calls Fagnani "magnus 
rigoristarum princeps", the great prince of the rigorists because of 
the rigor with which he combats the doctrine of probabilism in his 
commentary on the chapter of the Decretals "Ne innitaris" (Book I, De 
constitutionibus).Bededict XIV praised the work highly and it is 
still of great value concerning the practice of the Roman 
Congregations, especially that of the Congregation of the Council. 
First published in 1661 at Rome under the title of "Jus canonicum seu 
commentaria absolutissima in quinque libros Decretalium," it has been 
reprinted a number of times. Scarce. OCLC and RLIN show five copies, 
with the only one in the US at Harvard. In Latin.

Vellum split and chipped at head and heels of spines, a few tears at 
edges of two volumes, some wear at the corners, dampstain to margin 
at head of spine on two volumes and foredge margin on one, none 
affecting text, seminary library bookplate to front pastedown, 
otherwise no further markings, some very minor foxing, mainly to 
front matter, leaves clean with very wide untrimmed margins; overall 
a very good set. [26594]  $500.00

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