Anonimo. - Concilii Tridentini Canones et Decreta - 1571

Anonymous. Sacrosanct and Ecumenical Council of Trent Canons and Decrees. Antwerp, Cristoforo Plantin, 1571. First Plantinian edition of the official text that gathers the dogmas and reforms approved during the Council of Trent. A rare edition that includes the dogmatic decrees, the canons on matters of faith, and the decrees of moral and disciplinary reform of the clergy and of customs, and is supplemented by numerous marginal notes printed indicating sources and concordances of the decrees dictated by Jean Soteaux and by the jurist Horace Lucius. Leather binding in antique parchment. Title in a gold inlay on the spine. Printer’s mark of the famous Flemish printers engraved on the frontispiece. Dimensions 16 x 12 cm; pages 16 unnumbered, 302, 88. Excellent condition.