Opus restitutionum, usurarum excommunicationum.

Folio: [173] ff., 40 ll. (lacking final blank; 1st f. sl. soiled).

Old limp overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Excellent wide-margined copy.

Early ed. (1st 1472) of the major work of the Franciscan canon lawyer Franciscus de Platea (d. 1460). His treatise is generally considered to be one of the earliest printed works of economics, although it also deals with matters of moral, legal and political import from across Italy. In the section on excommunications, he details seven ways to falsify papal documents, all of which, of course, would lead to excommunication. He also considers the moral standing of a person who has ordered a failed assassination and condemns inquisitors who extort money from suspected heretics. Ref. ISTC ip00753000. - Goff P-753. - IGI 7841. - BMC VII:909. - CIBN P-431. - BSB-Ink P-552. - Not in Polain. Prov. "Est Conuentus S(anc)tae Mariae de oliua Maciani" (at beginning of text), i.e. the Franciscan convent of Marciano (Marche). - [Georges Petit].