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Synopsis

I. la pragmatique sa[n]ction, contenant les decrets du co[n]cile national de l'eglise gallicane, assemblee en la ville de bourges, au regne du roy charles septiesme. : auec le concordat d'icelle, entre le roy fr cois premier de ce nom, et le pape leon dixiesme. [bound with:] 2.acosta, jerome, histoire de l'origine et du progres des revenus ecclesiastique, o? il est trait? selon l'ancien et le nouveau droit, de tout ce qui regarde les matieres beneficiales, de larregale, des investitures, des nominations, et des autres droits attribuez aux princes. [bound with:] 3. recueil d'edits, declarations et arrests, rendus en faveur des curez et des chanoines. servans de reglement pour les pensions, etles portions congrues; les diximes vertes et menues, les novales; les droits honorifiques des curez primitifs; les reparations des choeurs, cancelles et nefs des eglses, et des presbyteres; les fournitures d'ornemens, l'exemption des tailles ses curez et des fermiers de ecclesiastiques, et autres droits utiles ausdts curez et chaniones.

Item Description

8vo. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. !. [2] + 58 + [1] leaves; 2. [20] + 386 pp. 3. [2] + [198] pp., variously paginated. Text in French. Bound in contemporary leather; spine with raised bands and early paper title labels in ink. Extremities worn with age and some loss at base of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Early inscription on title page; later ink notes and bookseller's label pasted in; the various notes link the copy to the Abbaye Royale de Sainte Colombe-les-Sens [Burgundy]. Decorated by title page, head and tailpiece vignettes an by initials. A collection of three printed works, 1561, 1687 and 1703 relating to secular aspects of the French Catholic church (the Gallican Church). The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges of 1438, a key Gallican document, agreed by Francois Premier of France and Pope Leo X, granted the French Church the right to regulate itself and limited the power of the pope within the French kingdom; the text includes that of the Concordat between pope and king. The 1687 work collects a number of declarations and decrees made in the reign of Louis XIV by the King or the Court of the Parlement of Paris concerning various rights. privileges and exemptions, etc. granted to the French clergy by the state. The 1703 title is not an official document, however, but the work of an individual, and controversial, author, which is a critical discussion of church finances first published in 1684. Richard Simon (1638-1712) was a priest, orientalist, and member of the Oratorian order, best known for his studies of Old (1678) and New (1689 onwards) Testament Biblical criticism, which were attacked and suppressed; his denial of the authorship of Moses of the Old Testament contributed to his expulsion from the Oratory in 1678. A scarce collection of works on the French church of the ancien regime.