[MALINES - SYNOD].
Decreta et statuta Synodi Provincialis Mechliniensis, die undecima mensis Iunii, anni millesimi, quingentesimi, septuagesimi ... Praesidente D. Martino Rythovio Episcopo Yprensi ... nomine et loco ... D. Antonii Perrenot, Archiepiscopo Mechliniensis, & ... Cardinalis Granvellani.
With: Die vigesima sexta mensis Iunii anni millesimi sexcentesimi septimi ... et vigesima die mensis Julii eiusdem anno conclusae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio Archiepiscopo Mechliniensi ...
With: (Decreta et statuta Synodi Dioecesanae Mechliniensis): die quinta Maij anni millesimi sexcentesimi noni inchoataev, & die sexta eiusdem anni & mensis absolutae. Praesidente ... D. Matthia Hovio archiepiscopo Mechliniensi.
Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin (vol. 1), Jan Moretus (vols. 2-3), 1571-1609. 3 editions in 1 volume. With Plantins woodcut compasses device on the title-page of the first work, incorporating the coat of arms of King Philip II of Spain, and another on the last leaf of the third work, and the woodcut coat-of-arms of Archbishop Matthias Hovius (1542-1620) on the title-pages of the 2nd and 3rd works; some fine woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, remnants of ties, with the title in manuscript on spine and front board. 79, [1]; 127, [1]; 76, [4] pp.
€ 1,500
Rare official acts of the only three synods held in the city of Malines, in 1570, 1607 and 1609, published by Christoffel Plantin (in 1571) and his son-in-law Jan Moretus (in 1608 & 1609), who succeeded to his Antwerp printing and publishing office. The first work contains the acts of the provincial synod held in Malines from 11 June to 14 July 1570, the first 8vo edition, published by Christoffel Plantin, copies of which still must have been in stock as late as 1609. The colophon states that the book was printed by Christoffel Plantin on 15 December 1570.
The second work, acts of the 1607 synod of the must have sold better, since it appears here in its second edition. At the end it includes a "Placcaet ende ordinancie" in Dutch (pp. 113-127), by the Archduke and Archduchess Albert and Isabel, warning their subjects to observe the decrees of the Malines synod, and summing up the most important church-resolutions in 30 articles in Dutch.
The third work, like the second is in its second edition. It contains the acts of the synod held from 5 to 6 May 1609 in Malines, also presided by Hovius.
Good copies of a rare series, With owners inscriptions of the Carmelites of Geldern (Ludivicus Kemma) on second fly-leaf and the title-page; and of the station near Wijhe (Limburg; "Stationis Rmo. Catholica prope Wijhe") and library stamps on first fly-leaf. The first work and the last leaves of the third water-stained, binding slightly damaged at the foot of the spine. Ad 1: BCNI 3285; C. de Clercq, "Les éditions bibliques, liturgiques et canoniques de Plantin", in: De Gulden Passer, 34 (1956), pp. 191-192; Knuttel, Ned. bibl. kerkgesch. 81; STCV 7038434; USTC 4112592; Voet 1060; ads 2-3: BCNI 5455 & 5456; STCV 6689723 (5 copies) & 6619731 (5 copies); USTC 1004416 (13 copies) & 1003408 (12 copies).
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