[Rarebooks] FS: Rare edition. Carranza on canon law. Venice: 1549

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Carranza, Bartholomaeus. SUMMA CONCILIORUM &PONTIFICUM A SANCTO PETRO Usque ad Paulum Tertium Succincte Co[m]plectensOmnia, Quae Alibi Sparsim Tradita Sunt. Venice: Ad Signum Spei. 1549. 8vo. (32),120,(2),(121)-397,(1)pp.With the final blank. Woodcut printer's device on title-page along withcontemporary owner's inscription which has been crossed out. Woodcut initials.Cont. limp vellum. Faint damp mark on last few leaves. A very nice copy.                           $1,250.00(trade discount allowed)
Earlyedition (1st Venice is 1546) of this work of canon law by thecontroversial Spanish theologian, Bartolome Carranza (1503-1576), who wasCharles V's envoy to the Council of Trent (1546) and later was sent to Englandto be Mary's confessor. The work is a collection of the church councils endingup with the Council of Trent. All early editions are rare. Adams C-766.
 
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