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Munich: Viduae & Haeredum, 1702-1714. 5 bks in 3. A Comprehensive, "Clear and Scientific" Treatment of Canon Law Reiffenstuel, Johann Georg (Anaklet) [1641-1703]. Jus Canonicum Universum, Clara Methodo Iuxta Titulos Quinque Librorum Decretalium in Quaestiones Distributum, Solidisque Responsionibus, & Objectionum Solutionibus Dilucidatum. Munich: Sumptibus Viduae & Haeredum Joannis Hermanni a Gelder, Typis Mariae Magdalenae Rauchin, Viduae, 1702-1714. Five books in three volumes. Folding table in Book IV. Leaves Dd2 and Dd3 of Book V bound out of order; text complete. Folio (12" x 7-1/2"; 30.48 x 19.05 cm). Contemporary blind-paneled pigskin over wooden boards, raised bands, blind fillets and lettering pieces to spines, clasps to fore-edges (1 clasp broken, 1 catch lacking). Light soiling and minor worming to exteriors, boards slightly bowed, light rubbing to extremities, rust to clasps, minor worming to pastedowns and endleaves, later (nineteenth-century?) manuscript shelfmarks to versos of free endpapers. Light toning to interiors, more moderate in some places, faint marginal dampstaining and very light foxing in a few places, minor worming to first six leaves of Book I affecting text without loss to legibility, early annotation (owner signature?) affected by trimming to p. 413 of Book II, small clean tears to edges of 3 leaves in third volume, one just touching text without loss, all mended, early owner inscriptions of convents dated 1726 (struck-through) and 1738 to title pages. $2,000. * Only edition (Volume I first published in 1701 and Reissued in 1702.) Reiffenstuel, a member of the Franciscan Order, was an important Bavarian canonist and theologian. First published in 1700, Jus Canonicum Universum, "following the basic divisions of the Decretals of Gregory IX, provides a clear and scientific explanation of the law.In a series of questions, the Ius Canonicum treats the entire field of Canon Law, embracing the decrees of the Council of Trent, the papal constitutions issued after the Council, and the practice of the Roman Curia. Its principal merit besides its completeness and extent is its excellence, which made it a standard work of reference for later canonists. This work along accords Reiffenstuel a high place among canonists and scholars" (New Catholic Encyclopedia). The work went through many editions into the nineteenth century. New.
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