Title
De republica ecclesiastica libri X / auctore Marco Antonio de Dominis, Archiepiscopo Spalatensi. Cum suis indicibus.
Variant Title
Vol. 2 has title: De republica ecclesiastica pars secunda : continens libros quintum, et sextum. Cum appendicibus in sexto capite quinti libri, in quibus appendicibus refellitur opus imperfectum D. Cardinalis Perronij, in ea parte in qua agitur de sanctissima Eucharistia. Additur in fine post sextum librum responsio ad magnam partem Defensionis Fidei P. Francisci Suarez ... Londini : Ex Officina Nortoniana, apud Ioannem Billium, anno MDCXX.
Imprint
Londini : Ex Officina Nortoniana, apud Io. Billium, MDCXVII-MDCXXII [1617-1622].
Description
3 volumes : portraits (engravings) ; 34 cm
Note
Pt. 3 (book 7-8) published in Hanover, 1622; pt. 4 (book 8-10) never published.
Vol. 1: [38], 766, [2], 767-773, [35] p.; v. 2: [8], 1009, [29] p.
Signatures: v. 1: pi³ [par.]² a-b⁴ c⁶ A-3S⁶ 3T-3X⁴ 3Y⁶ 3Z³ (3S6 blank); v. 2: pi⁴ A-4O⁶ 4P⁸ 4Q⁶ 4R⁷.
Errata: v. 1, 3Z1a-2a; v. 2: 4R6a-7a.
Printer's device on t.p. (v. 2), head- and tailpieces, initials, border rules.
Sideglosses.
Vol. 1 has engraved t.p., with illustrations in panels; signed: R. Elstracke sculpsit.
Vol. 1 includes 2 portrait engravings of the author, the first signed: Michael a. Mierevelt ad vivum pinxit. Ioannes Iansonius excudit; the second signed: Ioannes Bill excud. The second is also printed in v. 2.
Vol. 1, p. 767-773: De cardinalium legitima creatione tractatus, by D. Dominici.
Local Note
Lib. lacks v. 3; supplied in this set by 1658 ed., Frankfurt.
Binding: contemporary vellum boards, hand-lettered on back.
Ms. notes on the author on first portrait leaf (v. 1).
Ownership
Provenance: St. Patrick College, Maynooth (stamp)
Location
RARE
Call Number
BX1763 .D442 1617 v. 1-2 Folio
Language
Latin
