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EXCESSIVELY SCARCE COLLECTION OF JESUIT’S CANONS AND DECREESNOT IN USA1....
EXCESSIVELY SCARCE COLLECTION OF JESUIT’S CANONS AND DECREES
NOT IN USA
1. Indiculus decretorum easdem res tractantium In Congregationibus Generalibus Societatis Iesu Confici iussus a Congregatione VIII. Decreto XIV. Editio Secunda auctior & emendatior. Romae, Typis Varesij, 1662.
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2.Vitelleschi, Muzio. Epistola reuerendi p.n. generalis Mutij Vitelleschi ad patres, et fratres Societatis Iesu [...] [Dated at end: Romae 15. Nouemb. 1639]
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3-4-5. Decreta congregationis octauae [nonae et decimae ] generalis [after 14. IV. 1646].
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6. Piccolomini, Francesco. Ordinatio pro studijs superioribus ex deputatione, quae de illis habita est in Congregatione nona generali. A R.P.N. Francisco Piccolomineo ad prouincias missa. Anno 1651
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7. Decreta congregationis generalis vndecimae
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8-9-10. Canones Congregationis generalis octauae [ nonae et decimae ]
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11. Canones Congregationis generalis vndecimae
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12. Instructio Pro administratione rerum temporalium collegiorum, ac domorum probationis Societatis Iesu. [S.l. s.n., not before 1646: publication date based on References in text (p. 1) to the Eighth General Congregation of the Jesuits, which took place in 1646].
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13. Regulae, quae a patribus reuisoribus generalibus Romae in recognoscendis nostrorum libris, ac scriptis obseruandae sunt .
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14. Deputatio pro ordinationibus non impressis recognouit, iuxta congregationis octauae praescriptum, censuras, & praecepta, generaliter hominibus societatis imposita.
[Probably all printed in Rome by Varesi, after the half of 17th century].
8vo (147x100 mm), limp marbled paperboards, pp. 93, [7, the last two blanks] for the first work; 221, [1, blank], 79, [9], 35, [1, blank], 25, [5, the last blank], 18, [12, the last 4 blanks], 6, [2], 16, 8, 13, [3, blanks]. Some woodcuts headletters and tail-pieces.
Excessively scarce collection of 14 conference publications containing decrees, letters, rules, congresses and canons relating to the Company of Jesus.
References:
1. OCLC 6718315 locates 3 copies —none in USA. Not in Backer-Sommervogel.
2. OCLC 775006721: only a copy worldwide, located at St. Louis University (Missouri). This Vitelleschi’s work is commonly known as De anno saeculari Societatis. See Backer-Sommervogel, v. 8, column 849, no. 7 and v. 5, column 114.
3-4-5. OCLC 40208901 locates only a copy in USA, at University of Chicago Library, that doesn’t owns the 11th Decree (no. 7).
6. Not in USA. OCLC, 560529901: the copy of British Library (UK). Not in Backer-Sommervogel. See volume 6, column 700.
7. Not in USA. OCLC 276917578 (BL). Not in Backer-Sommervogel.
8-9-10. Not in USA. OCLC 560513606 for the octava, OCLC 560513615 for the nona and OCLC 560513626 for the decima (all in British Library).
11. Not in USA. OCLC 560513635 (British Library).