‎"LOYOLA Ignatius de - Joannes MEURSIUS - ( Jan van MEURS ) ( publisher - editor ) - [ ] JESUIT ORDER - CORPUS INSTITUTORUM SOC; IESU :LOYOLA Ignatius de LOYOLA Ignatius de"‎
‎Corpus Institutorum Societatis Iesu. Complete series of 16 separate publications bound in 4 volumes. (First complete edition of the constitution and rules of the Jesuit Order).‎

‎0. Antverpîae (Antwerpen), Apud Joannem Meursium, 1635, format in-8°, 16 parts, each with separate title, bound in 4 volumes. Contemporary supple vellum, manuscript titles on smooth spine. Ex-library, with only some stamps on the first fly leaves (not on titles). Volume 1 and 3 are in fine condition. Vol. 2 has a fine interior but the top of the spine is damaged with loss of vellum. Vol. 4 has also a damaged spine and some stains on the first leaves. We list the works as described by De Backer-Sommervogel vol. 5 col. 81. [1] Litterae Apostolicae quibus institutio... 384 pp + index. (in volume I - 1st pos.). [2] Compendium Privelegiorum et Gratiarum... 164 pp + index. ( in volume III - 2nd position). [3] Constitutiones Societatis Iesu et Examen...368 pp + index. ( in volume I - 2nd position) [4] Ordinationes Praepositorum Generalium...146 pp + index. ( in volume III - 1st position) [5] Decreta Congragationum Generalium.... 474 pp + index. (in volume II - 1st position). [6] Canones Congregationum...80 pp + index (in volume II - 2nd position). [7] Formulae Congragationum in quarta generali Congre.....136 pp + index. (in volume II - 3rd pos). [8] Instructiones ad Provinciales... 112 pp + index (in volume III - 3rd position). [9] R.P. Claudii Acquavivae S.J. Praepositi generalis industriae... 117 pp + index ( in vol. 3 - 4th pos.). [10] R.P. Claudii Acquavivae S.J. Instructio pro superioribus ... 48 pp + index ( in vol 3 - 5th pos.). [11] Exercitia Spiritualia S.P. Ignatii Loyolae. 153 pp + (brevis) index. ( in vol. 3 - 6th pos.) [12] Directorium in Exercitia Spritualia... 128 pp + index. ( in vol. 4 - 1th position). [13] Ratio atqua institutio studiorum S.J. ... 173 pp + index ( in vol. 2 - 4th position). [14] Epistolae Praepositorum Generalium....448 pp + index ( in vol. 4 - 2nd position). [15] Regulae S.I. auctoritate septimae Congragationis..276 pp + index (in vol. 1 - 3rd position). [16] Index generalis in omnes libros... 288 pp. ( in vol. 4 - 3rd position). Complete setr, in first edition, of the first edition of the rules, the constitutions, etc. of the Jesuit Order. ( rare complete !).‎

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