Lugduni (Lyon), sumptibus Ioannis Baptistae Bourlier & Laurentii Aubin, 1674, in-folio, text on 2 col., 6 leaves, title page in red and black with printer's device + 1016 p., incl. separate title with printer's device (= p. 529-530) + 47 leaves (index) + 1 white leaf + title with printer's device (id. to 2nd part) + 96 p. + 5 leaves (index); light mainly marg. waterstaining in beginning and end leaves, light browning, minimal worming in lower margin of few leaves, exlibris on first fly ‘C. Michel Sum Venblis Cleri Bullensis 1707’, full calf binding on raised bands, spine richly gold tooled (gold tooling of lower compartments partly gone off), rubbing, extreme bottom of rear cover partly scraped off and with some worming. In all a sound and firm copy.
A classical text, in Latin, the chief work of the Jesuit priest Paul Laymann, involving moral theology and ethics. It is in this work, from the 3rd edition on, that Layman criticized strongly the abuses of the witch persecutors and trials. Paul Layman, from Innsbruck, taught grammar, philosophy, canonical law, and moral theology for 16 years in Ingolstadt, Munich and Dillingen. De Backer-S. IV/1585 (plusieurs éditions depuis la première de 1625; de l'éditeur Laur. Aubin de Backer-S. ne mentionne que l'édition de 1681); Buchberger LTK VI/429-430.
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