Cabassut, Jean; Cabassutii, Joannis. Notitia Ecclesiastica Historiarum, Conciliorum & Canonum invicem collatorum...&c. Lugduni [Lyon]: Anisson & Joannis Posuel, 1702. Tertia. [9223]
Full leather, spine with 6 gilt-decorated panels, raised bands, title label "CABASSVT NOTITIA". 35 x 23 cm (13 3/4 x 9 inches), binding with some scuffing and edge-wear, yet with fine joints, tight. Green paper bookplate, ink stamp on tp, "Catholic College at Dublin for the Foreign Missions". (xxii.), 680, (76) generally clean pp., light infrequent pencil marginalia. Lacks the front free end paper; half title page creased. Very good. Full leather.
Jean Cabassut (1604-1985), b. & d. at Aix, France. French theologian and priest of the Oratory, noted for his excellent quality in learning and holiness of life. He for some time taught canon law at Avignon, and became a distinguished writer on questions of ecclesiastical history, canon law, and moral theology. He wrote the "'Notitia Conciliorum' (Lyons, 1668). Cardinal Grimaldi induced the writer to enlarge this work and publish it under the title, 'Notitia ecclesiastica historiarum, conciliorum et canonum invicem collatorum', etc. (Lyons, 1680, and other dates; Munich, 1758; Tournai, 1851, 3 vols.). Often modified and enlarged, it was once, under the title 'Cabassutius', an authority for the history of councils." - The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908).
