Enchiridion canonico-morale de confessario ad inhonesta, & turpia solicitante: nec non de decretis, & constitutionibus pontificiis ad hoc nefarium crimen exterminandum emanantis

Author: Hermenegildo Vilaplana (1712-1763)

Year: 1764

Publisher: Bibliotheca Mexicana

Place: Mexico City

Description:

[38]+217+[15 unnumbered] pages with index. Duodecimo (6" x 4") bound in original limp velum lacking ties and ink title to spine. (Medina, Mexico, 5026; Palau 365782) First edition.

Father Vilaplana, a native of Benimarfull, Valencia, Spain, was a Franciscan, a university lecturer where he studied philosophy and theology before coming to America as a Franciscan missionary, attached to the colleges in Queretaro and Zacatecas. He wrote histories of all of the Franciscan colleges in New Spain and was a member of the Inquisition. Notably, one the earliest biographies of the apostle to Texas, Fr. Antonio Margil, was written by Vilaplana in 1763. The Enchiridion is a "handbook" which gives examples of abuses, lays out the pertinent canon laws and papal edicts, and has a section of questions to be asked of accused priests during court proceedings. The work also discusses punishment and other disciplines that the crimes demand.

Condition:

Front gutter pulled away from vellum, ties lacking, corners bumped, worming to latter part of work from page 203 to the end affecting some text else about very good.