Item 3 - Traicté des anges et demons

230 ff; 13.9 cm x 8.5 cm

Date: 1617
Author: R.P. Maldonat, Jesuite, [var. Fr. Juan Maldonado SJ (1533-1583)]
Publisher: A Paris, Chez Jean Corrozet, en la grande Salle du Palais deuant les Consultations, M. DC. XVII [1617].
Full title: 'Traicté des anges et démons du R.P. Maldonat, Jesuite, mis en françois par M. François de La Borie grand Archidacre & Chanoine à Perigueux'

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Bound in contemporary calf with manuscript title to spine. The covers and warped and deformed. Careful manual required.

Printed coat of arms of the ‘Most Rev. John Murphy, Bishop of Cork / Cork, 1815’ is pasted onto the fly leaf. Manuscript annotation on verso of fly leaf reads: ‘Livre rare curieux et estiné ex libris P. Brunet O.M. acheté de rencontre à Paris le 8 avril 1826’. John Murphy (1772-1847), Bishop of Cork from 1815-47, was a noted bibliophile. Fr. Arthur O’ Leary OFM Cap. (1729-1802) of Blackamoor Lane, Cork, had a significant influence on him and may have fostered his love of printed theological works.

'Traicté des anges et demons', a translation of some of Maldonado’s expositions collected by one of his pupils, is of questionable authorship or authenticity.