[Rarebooks] fs: 1693_Manuel SANZ_[Jesuits]_Tratado breve contra la secta mahometana‏

[Levant Books]

Offering today:Tratado breve contra la secta mahometana : en el qual por razones demostrativas se les convence manifiestamente à los turcos, sin que lo puedan negar en manera alguna, ser falsa la ley de Mahometo, y verdadera la de los christianos ; con otros dos dialogos, que demuestran con la misma certeza, y evidencia la verdad de nuestra Santa Fè Catolica, contra cualesquiera sectas de infieles, y particularmente contra la de los judios, y herejes
Author is Jesuit Manuel Sanz of Malta. Published “En Sevilla : por Lucas Martin, 1693.”Spanish Text. Title page printed with Black and Red type. Size: 8”x 5.5” (20cm x 14cm). Wrapped in either vellum or parchment (I really don’t know the difference). The text block is solid and bound with string - the block is mostly detached from the cover but not completely. Both are complete. There are no pages previous to the title page. There is a rear free endpaper. 38 pages before the text, 265 pages, 7 pages of appendix.from OCLC: “Responsibility: consagralo todo a la mayor gloria de Dios ... Manuel Sanz de la Compañia de Jesus, consultor del Santo Oficio en la isla de Malta.”Sanz was a Spanish Jesuit of the Sicilian Province. He was a missionary to Malta where he became rector of the Jesuit college and qualifer of the Inquisition. One of the most important books written by Jesuits and printed in Europe as an attempt to grasp what the image of Islam was and how the Jesuits approached Muslims in that period. From a paper “EVEN AMONG TURKS,” presented 2012: “… the Spanish Jesuit Manuel Sanz in his Breve … invited Catholic people to convert Muslims, instead of standing and waiting in a sort of passive respectfulness. Like González, Manuel Sanz reasserts in his book that he is not writing only for Muslims, and wants “to teach those who keep them in their homes, or are constantly dealing with them, so that they may know how to talk with them about the truth of our Holy Faith, and convince them of their errors with only a few words, since they won’t have anything to retort” (Sanz, Breve tratado… [Introduction])USD $1,000.— postpaid and insured in the USA.International postage (Registered) at cost.Payable only by Paypal.Robert AzziExeter NH 03833