Author: ARSDEKIN Richard - ( Richard ARCHDEACON ) :
Title: Theologia Tripartita Universa, complectens nunc Bibliothecam perfectam Viri Ecclesiastici, ordine sequenti. Tomus Primus....Tomus Tertius. Post editionem octavam Antverpiensem, ab Authore in singulis Partibus plurimum locopletatam,..; Editio Secunda in Germania Superiore, revisa , & additis Opinionibus ab Alexandro VIII damnatis, aucta. ( 3 parts in one volume).
Description: 10. Dilingae ( Dillingen ), Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, Bibliopolae Academici, 1694 (1693 for the second & third part) , in-folio, (16)nn pp + 179 pp + (5)nn pp (index) ; 287 pp + (5)nn pp ( index ) ; 162 pp. Title of first part printed in red and black, with copper engraved vignette. Bound in contemporary full leather, Edges painted red. Good copy but with small foxing spots on many pages. A near contemporary note in ink , on the first paste down, states that this book was placed on the Roman Catholic Index of forbidden books in 1696. The author was born in Kilkenny (Ireland) in 1620. He fled to the Southern Low Countries and entered the Jesuit Order in Mechelen in 1642. He teached in Louvain and Antwerp, where he died in 1693. The first edition of this book is from 1671. The work is praised for its order, conciseness and lucidity (Catholic Encyclopedia). .

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