De Re Beneficiaria Liber Singularis sive Quæstionis celebris et difficilis, an & quibus in casibus liceat homini Christiano absque culpâ & peccato plura Beneficia ecclesiastica possidere, anakrisis. Curâ & studioTheologi Parisiensis abbatis Sidichembechensis
by [BOILEAU (Jacques)]:
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No place No publisher 1710. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 159 x 92 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 296 [297 - 308 Index, 309 - 310 Errata], contemporary sheepskin, spine richly gilt in compartments, red leather label; top and base of spine slightly chipped, upper front joint slightly cracked, corners worn, but good copy with a not quite decipherable presentation inscription on the title-page. The poet and priest Jacques Boileau (1635 - 1716) addresses the question of church benefices and canon law, both topics genuine show stoppers no doubt in the early 18th century. He seems to have had something of a reputation as an eccentric and dangerously curious writer, with Voltaire commenting that he was an "esprit bizarre qui a fait des livres bizarres écrits dans un latin extraordinaire...." He was also the author of the rather popular book on flagellation, Histoires des Flagellants (1701), which is probably more to the taste of our wanton and profane age.
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- De Re Beneficiaria Liber Singularis sive Quæstionis celebris et difficilis, an & quibus in casibus liceat homini Christiano absque culpâ & peccato plura Beneficia ecclesiastica possidere, anakrisis. Curâ & studioTheologi Parisiensis abbatis Sidichembechensis
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- [BOILEAU (Jacques)]:
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- Hardcover
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- No place No publisher 1710
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