Differentiae Inter Utrumque Forum, Iudiciale Videlicet, et Conscientiae…
Maioricae [in Cartusia Maioricarum (Valldemossa)]: Excudebat Emmanuel Rodriguez, Anno 1624. Reissue of the 1616 first edition. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of two pairs of fore-edge ties preserved; manuscript title to spine; contemporary manuscript ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. pp. [12] [2 blank] 376 [1] [28] p. (final 28 pp. index). Rear pastedown and free endpaper formed from a reused printed sheet. Vellum somewhat soiled and cockled, with a few stains and small abrasions; minor wear to extremities. Occasional foxing, and stains. Otherwise in very good condition.
A rare and early Valldemossa imprint on law, conscience, and moral theology.
This substantial work of post-Tridentine moral theology and canon law, examining the relationship between the external judicial forum (forum externum) and the internal forum of conscience (forum internum), was written by Johannes (Juan) Valero, a Valencian jurist and later Prior of the Carthusian monastery of Jesús Nazareno at Palma de Mallorca. Although a Carthusian, he wrote in close dialogue with contemporary Jesuit jurisprudence: the preliminaries include a dedicatory letter by Michael Julian, rector of the Jesuit college at Palma, while the treatise draws extensively on the writings of the Jesuit theologian Leonardus Lessius. It is dedicated to Salvador Fontanet y Savila (d. 1633), Regent of the Chancery of the Supreme Council of Aragon, whose legal career is outlined in an extensive contemporary encomium. Two years later, Fontanet became one of the principal royal commissioners entrusted by the Count-Duke of Olivares with promoting the Unión de Armas in Catalonia before the Cortes of 1626.
Printed at the Carthusian Charterhouse of Jesús Nazareno by Emmanuel Rodriguez, one of the principal printers active in seventeenth-century Mallorca, the volume belongs to the relatively small body of early Majorcan legal and theological imprints. A 1624 reissue of the 1616 first edition, with only the title page reset, it otherwise consists of the original edition throughout.
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Price: €1,200.00