ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE

Simon, Denis: Traité du Droit de Patronage, de la Presentation aux Benefices, et des Droits honorifiques des Seigneurs dans les Eglises. Avec un Traité des Maximes du Droit Canonique. A Paris, chez Jean Guignard [...] 1686.

First edition of this treatise on the laws of ecclesiastical patronage, and lay patronage and rights in the church. With a collection of canon law maxims appended. Simon (1660-1731), a legal official in Beauvais, was author also of a bibliography of French jurisprudence and a history of his region (cf. Jöcher).

Details

First edition. 12mo., pp. [12] 458 [42]. Contents loosening (still sound), some waterstaining, soiling to bottom of verso of title-page and recto of A2, still good, bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt with title stamped in gilt, traces of gilt to sides, edges mottled red, small old paper shelf label; wear to sides, cracking to spine and top of upper joint, piece missing (and tailband loosening) at bottom of spine. Contemporary inscription: "Thomas".

OCLC FirstSearch (2008) notes copies of this edition in Quebec and at Yale Law School, BNF and BM Lyon. NUC adds Harvard Law.