Rationale libri primi [-quinti] iuris Pontificij / auctore Io. Baptista Viuiano Vrbinate ... opus in quo omnium, quae à Summis Pontificibus constituta sunt in quinque libris Decretalium, Sexti, Clementinarum, & Extrauagantium, ratio redditur.

Romae : Typis Iacobi Mascardi, MDCXII [1612]-MDCXVII [1617].

5 parts in 2 volumes ; 22 cm (quarto)

Description based on pts. 3-5. Title information following author's name partly from Universiteit Maastricht record (OCLC 68175273) (varies slightly in each part).
Imprint date, pts. 3-4: MDCXV [1615]; pt. 5: MDCXVII [1617].
Pt. 1 publ. 1612. Cf. OCLC, Catalogue collectif de France.
Pt. 3: [20], 472 p.; pt. 4: [8], 132 p.; pt. 5: [16], 388 [i.e. 390], [22] p.
Signatures: pt. 3: [dagger]¹⁰ A-FF⁸ GG⁴; pt. 4: [dagger]⁴ A-H⁸ I²; pt. 5: [dagger]⁸ A-BB⁸ CC⁶.
Error in pagination: pt. 5, no. 339-340 repeated.
Printer's devices on title pages (coat of arms, of Cardinal Borghese, the dedicatee), tailpieces, initials, factotums.
Includes indexes.

Lib. has pts. 3-5 only (bound in 1 vol.)
In lib. copy, imprint dates have been altered apparently in pen and ink: pt. 3-4 altered to MDCXVIIII; pt. 5 to MDCXVIII.
Binding: contemporary calf, blind-tooled on covers and edges, rebacked in rotten sheepskin, gold-tooled and -stamped on back.
Ms. notes on original back binder's leaf, dated 1640, paraphrasing a passage from Romans.

Provenance: contemporary ownership inscriptions, some deleted; Revd. Doctr. Lioms sister to Maynooth College &c., 1808 (inscription).

RARE

BQV190 .V58 1612

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