Enchiridion sive Manuale confessariorum et poenitentium [...].

8vo: 823-[40] pp. (sl. browned, sm. marg. stain to some pp.).

Very nice cont. blind-stamped pigskin over wood, covers ruled with fillets and roll-stamps & orn. with central panels (fig. the Annunciation and the Christ "Ego sum lux mundi"), spine on raised bands, clasps (sm. wormholes, front joint partly split).

Rare Plantin ed. (1st 1575; 1st ed. in Portuguese: 1549) of a voluminous textbook for priests hearing confession, compiled by the Spanish canonist M. Azpilcueta (1492-1586). The treatise systematically deals with i.a. the Ten Commandments, and hence with homicide (pp. 238-253) and sex (pp. 253-276, 434-442). Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Voet 618. - BT 230. - De Troeyer 789 (ascribing authorship to the Portuguese Franciscan Antonio de Curara). - Palau 21318. - Pettegree (NB) 2958. - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos. Prov. Attinet Tegernsee, i.e. the former Benedictine monastery in Bavaria (ms. entry on title). - Christophorus Udalricq (ms. entry). - Émile Grisar, Lieutenant Colonel in the Honorary Reserve (armorial bookpl.; Janssens & Duerloo II:237). - Em. Mancel, i.e. [Gustave]-Émile Mancel (1831-1909), French naval historian, whose collection was sold in 1896 (armorial bookpl.).