Author: DES-BOIS, FRANC., [DELFAN, FRANCOIS],
Title: l'Abbe commendataire ou l'injustice des Commendes, est condamnée par la Loy de Dieu, par les Decrets des Papes, & par les Ordonnances, Pragmatiques, & Concordats des Roys de France. Pour les defendre contre la calomnie de ceux qui en pretendent authoriser cêt abus.
Description: Cologne, Nicolas Schouten, 1673, 8vo., contemporary full parchment spitsel binding, with (faded) handwritten title on spine, [22]+287 pp., good copy with a minor dampstain in the lower corner of the bookblock. With some lovely decorative initials and head- and tailpieces. Curious treatise by the Benedictine Delfau (1637-1676) on substitute abbots and priests. Long bibliographical note on the titlepage and ownership entry on the front flyleaf (gift by Josephus Vander Maelen, canon of Park Abbey and "praepostitus vallis S. Catharinae in Oosterhout prope Bredam, 13 7bres 1698")

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