[Rarebooks] FS: Loyola's Jesuit Constitutions. Important Edition. 1583

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Ignatius, Saint, of Loyola. CONSTITUTIONES SOCIETATIS IESU. Rome: In Collegio 
Eiusdem Societatis. 1583. 8vo. 309,(71)pp. Fine engraved title-page. 18th 
century marbled boards. Faint dampstains in a few gatherings and tiny, round worm 
hole through text, touching some words, but readability not affected.     
$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The Constitutions of the Society of Jesus. From its place in Sommervogel’s 
chronological listing, this edition is the first printing of the authoritative 
final recension of the Latin text. The text of the Constitutiones is the 
official Latin version of Ignacio Loyola’s last Spanish recension which was first 
published in 1559. The unsigned beautifully etched title-page is described in A. 
F. Johnson’s Catalog of Italian Engraved Title-pages in the Sixteenth 
Century, p. 19, no. 20; DeBacker-Sommervogel V, 77.

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