1550 1st Edtn SUMMA DOCTRINA DE PRAEDESTINATIONE By Ambrosius Catharinus Good Religion

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1550 1st Edition ,
SUMMA DOCTRINA DE PRAEDESTINATIONE
Reverendi P. D. Ambrosii Catharini Episcopi Minoriensis. Adiicitur et Lucubratio De Veritate Enunciationum. Summa item doctrinae De Peccato Originali. Adiicitur Dialogus De Iustificatione
By Ambrosius Catharinus
Ambrosius Catharinus (1483/4–1553), born Lancelotto Politi in Siena, Dominican friar, papal theologian and later Bishop of Minori. A noted defender of orthodox Catholic doctrine against Protestant challenges, he published extensively in the years leading up to and during the early years of the Council of Trent.

Format: Vellum, Crown octavo (8vo 5+3⁄8 × 8 137 × 203),Pages 152
Language: Latin
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Apud Vincentium Valgrisium (Vincenzo Valgrisi), Rome

Synopsis: A rigorous and strikingly original work of Counter-Reformation theology, Summa Doctrinae de Praedestinatione presents Ambrosius Catharinus’s mature reflection on predestination, grace, free will, and reprobation. Writing in the heat of the Reformation debates, the Dominican theologian steers a subtle course between the extremes of double predestination and Pelagian self-reliance, defending the freedom of the human will within divine providence.
The appended treatises extend the intellectual reach of the volume:
(1) De Veritate Enunciationum — on the logical and theological foundations of truth and propositions;
(2) De Peccato Originali — a concise exposition of original sin and its transmission;
(3) Dialogus de Iustificatione — a pointed dialogue articulating the Catholic doctrine of justification against Protestant critiques.
This 1550 Roman edition, printed by Antonio Blado for Vincenzo Valgrisi, is the principal sixteenth-century issue of the work and among the few to survive complete with the terminal errata and register. The Summa Doctrinae stands as one of the most daring expressions of Catholic speculation in the generation immediately preceding the Council of Trent — combining scholastic precision with a tone of intellectual audacity that led even some contemporaries to suspect its author of heterodox leanings.
Exceptionally rare in commerce, with no recorded auction appearances in recent decades and no copies currently for sale through major international channels, this edition is prized both for its theological significance and for its historical witness to the ferment of Catholic thought in mid-sixteenth-century Rome. A key text for students of Thomistic and Scotist controversies, the doctrines of grace and justification, and the negotiation of orthodoxy within the Counter-Reformation.

A scarce and intellectually significant first edition of a major Counter-Reformation treatise, printed by two of Rome’s leading presses at mid-century. Its complete state, early vellum binding, and period annotations make it highly appealing to collectors of early theology, institutional libraries, and scholars of sixteenth-century intellectual history.

SKU: BTETM0002650
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg

Good - Small quarto (c. 200 × 145 mm). [A]⁴ B–P⁴ = 64 ff. Complete, including the terminal errata and register leaf. Title within typographic border bearing the Valgrisi serpent-and-tau-cross device; Roman and italic type; woodcut initials throughout. Colophon on final verso: “Terminatvm Romae in aedibus Antonii Bladi die 28 mensis Augusti Anno Domini M.D.L.”
Contemporary or early vellum over boards, faintly warped and toned, with later inked spine title; binding sound. Some light foxing and small damp-marks, edges a little dust-soiled; occasional neat contemporary marginalia; a very good, complete copy.
CNCE 36081, OCLC 225740325 Please see photos as part of condition report

1550 1st Edtn SUMMA DOCTRINA DE PRAEDESTINATIONE By Ambrosius Catharinus Good Religion

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