Author: EYMERICUS Nicolaus (1320-1399) - EYMERIC - Francisco PEÑA ( 1540 - 1612) :
Title: Directorium Inquisitorum F. Nicolai Eymerici Ordinis Praed. Cum commentariis Franciscii Pegnae, Sacrae Theologiae ac Iuris utriusque Doctoris. In hac postrema editione iterum emendatum & autum, & multis litteris Apostolicis locupletatum....
Description: .: Roma , in aedibus Populi Romani , 1585 , in-folio, [32] + 744 + [56] pp ; [8] + 193 + [15] pp. Title printed in red and black, with large woodcut vignette on title and on the last page. Nice initials, marginal dampstaining in some parts. Some foxing. Skilfully rebacked, old paper covered boards, blue edges. Provenance: Harryson Caird - Alfonso Cassuto Collection. ( with their ex-libris) Adams E1163 ; Coumont E.8.4. USTC 828552. Nicolas Eymerich ( Girona 1320 - 1399) was General Inquisitioner of Aragon, Catalogne, Valencia, Majorca...During his career he was in close contact with several popes ( residing not in Rome but in Avignon). This manual of the Inquisition and how to deal with heresy, whichcraft, demony was first published as a book in 1578, so this is the second edition . The commentary is by Francisco Peña The second part of the book consists of Papal documents regulating the Inquisition etc. . It details specific heretics and their beliefs, banned books, witchcraft, the errors of other faiths, as well as the technical legal processes of denunciations and trials, torture, and forms of excommunication. It became the definitive handbook of procedure for the Spanish Inquisition until far into the seventeenth century. Translations were still published in the 18th c. (e.g. Lisbon, 1762). This edition is rare outside Italy. USTC list 53 copies; but only 9 outside Italy. (whitchcraft;heresy;inquisition;). .

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