{"title":"Papal Bulls","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"franciscans","title":"[FRANCISCANS.]","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery good copy of the scarce first edition of this compendium of privileges, bulls and concessions granted by popes to the Franciscan and other mendicant orders in the course of previous centuries. Intended as an  opusculum  for easy consultation, it is organized alphabetically and prefaced by a long index. Each numbered entry begins with the name of the pope who granted the specified privileges concerning, for instance, the permission to administer confession and absolution in various circumstances (e.g., to family members or infidels), appropriate behaviour in convents and in the presence of women who are not nuns, education and indulgences (with lists of specific stations for penitence in Rome and Jerusalem, sins absolved and length of time). Such compendia became fundamental administrative instruments for missionary friars in the New World. This copy belonged to the Convento de San Francisco in Quer étaro, Mexico, in the C17. Most marginalia highlight ordinances concerning the financial and administrative relationship between Franciscans friars and the nuns of the Second Order of St Francis for whom a convent was established in Quer étaro in 1606.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[FRANCISCANS.]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816155881807,"sku":"L2899","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L2899-1.jpg?v=1781794912"},{"product_id":"paulus-v","title":"[PAULUS V]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare ms. bull by Pope Paulus V, issued on April 6, 1607 at Sts Peter and Paul, conferring an ecclesiastical  beneficium simplex  revenues from ecclesiastical institutions which could be earned  in absentia , without residence, by paying another cleric, a vicar, to act  in vece  on Pellegrino Puglia,  vicario generale  of Milan in the 1590s. The  beneficiatus  could only be appointed when a vacancy arose, after an examination and declaration of suitability by the ecclesiastical authorities confirming both the merit of the recipient and the voluntary nature of the resignation, to avoid suspicion of simony. Puglia was awarded the simple benefice of  clericatus  after the  free resignation  of Giuseppe Mazocchi, at the Church of San Martino in San Salvatore [Monferrato] in the dioceses of Pavia; he was granted another as simple benefices could be accumulated from the Church of Santa Maria di Fossano (in Vignale Monferrato). Further simple benefices, called  cappellaniae  (revenue in exchange for caring for a specific chapel and saying mass), came from Santi Andrea and Nicola of Lussinio (probably the present Oratorio di Sant Andrea) near Lugo in the dioceses of Faenza, as well as San Servo (?), St Angelo de Flumine (in Terni?), San Valentino  prope et extra muros , and Sant Agata in the dioceses of Rome, and the Church of Santa Maria Foris Portas (probably near Varese). The total amounted to nearly 300 ducats a year, though presumably he would have had to employ curates to deal with the work load. The bull bears numerous autographs including that of B. de la Cabra, Archbishop of Cagliari. An interesting insight into the ecclesiastical administration of the Counter-Reformation. Papal bulls retaining their lead seals are rare on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[PAULUS V]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816158175567,"sku":"L3009","price":2450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/Untitled-24_d2f80112-50b1-470e-a18e-681855fe50ab.jpg?v=1781794901"},{"product_id":"paul-iii","title":"[PAUL III]","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtremely rare document unrecorded in major bibliographies reproducing a papal bull seeking to raise funds for the Ottoman wars, sent by Pope Paul III to Charles V on August 4, 1535 and probably printed by one of the authorised Spanish indulgence presses, Gumiel in Valladolid or Hagembachs  successor in Toledo (Norton). It was signed by Garcia de Loaysa, cardinal and bishop of Sigüenza, Johann Poggius, cardinal and apostolic nuncios, and Don Francisco de Mendoca, bishop of Valencia. It was sent in the aftermath of the Ottoman Conquest of Tunis by Hayreddin Barbarossa under the command of Suleiman the Magnificent. Paul III requested that the Churches of the Spanish Empire, including Sardinia, give 252,000 ducats towards a maritime expedition against the Turks, 212,000 coming from ecclesiastical revenues and benefices of religious institutions and individuals in the regions of Castile, Granada, Navarra and the Canary Islands. They would be used to fund 21 ships for two years at the cost of 6,000 ducats each. The last section in Castilian, dated March 6, 1536, is signed by Alonso de Baeça, treasurer of the king, who acknowledged receipt of the original bull. He set a peremptory deadline of 51 days from notification to pay the sum, a payment which the king assented to extend by one year. Should the sum remain unpaid, the benefices and revenues for the year 1536 and 1537 would be seized.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[PAUL III]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816158241103,"sku":"L3033","price":4850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3033-2.jpg?v=1781794901"},{"product_id":"paul-iii-_","title":"[PAUL III] _","description":"\u003cp\u003eExtremely rare document unrecorded in major bibliographies reproducing a papal bull for the Ottoman wars, sent by Paul III to dioceses in the Spanish Empire in 1543. It begins with a Castilian summary, followed by the Latin text, in the name of Cardinal Garcia de Loaysa, bishop of Seville; in particular, this printed document was addressed to the prelates, abbots and clerics holding benefices in the dioceses of Cartajena, the name added in ink in the dedicated blank. The original was presented by Alonso de Baeça, treasurer of the king, and requested _ of ecclesiastical revenue in the years 1543-44 from the reigns of Castile and Aragon, in order to set up two  armadas  (by land and sea). They were meant to increase defence against the Turks after their conquest of the western part of Hungary. The document was authenticated by the notary Jacobus Gratianus (Diego Graci√°n de Alderete), also a humanist and correspondent of Erasmus. On the verso is a statement addressed to whoever would be handling the document, that it should be shown to a specific person or officer (illegible) upon request.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[PAUL III] _","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816158699855,"sku":"L3032","price":4250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3032.jpg?v=1781794901"},{"product_id":"burton-henry","title":"BURTON, Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine, large margined, copy of this very rare work by the puritan Devine Henry Burton, a point by point rebuttal of the Papal bull issued by Urban VIII in 1626 in which he counselled English Catholics to abjure the Oath of Allegiance issued on the accession of Charles I. The work was particularly controversial for its virulent attack on Jesuits in the prefatory epistles to Charles I and to Buckingham which lead to the suppression of the work by the Bishop of London.  [The book contains the] usual indulgence in anti-Catholic vitriol   casting the Pope as Antichrist   but it was in the special epistle to the duke of Buckingham that Burton was most controversial. Burton suggested that as the king needed money so desperately, he should take it from the Jesuits in the country. Buckingham was entrusted with the responsibility of protecting the crown, church, and true religion, and he was charged with searching everywhere, including his own household, for Jesuits who should be treated as traitors. After licensing by Jeffrey, this book was entered to the printer William Jones in the Stationers Registers on 26th April 1627. In spite of the legal entry, the Bishop of London suppressed the sale and the publishing of  The baiting of the Pope s Bull ; as early as 20 May 1627 the masters and wardens of the Stationers Company were instructed to seize all copies.  Suellen Mutchow Towers  Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England.   Burton (1578   1648) Puritan divine, educated at St. John s College Cambridge, Clerke of the Closet to Prince Charles, was sacked for having presented Charles with a letter inveighing against the popish tendencies of Neile and Laud. He then conducted aggressive warfare against Episcopal practices from his pulpit, in St Mathews church on Friday street. His writings earned him a few short sojourns in the Fleet, but he was always released, until 1636, when he was imprisoned, tried for sedition, striped of his ministry and degrees, sentenced to the pillory, where he had his ears cropped. On his release, by order of Parliament in 1640, he was restored to his ministry, where, as Marsden put it  it was not in the power of malice to desire, or of ingenuity to suggest, a weekly spectacle so hurtful to the Royal cause as that of Burton preaching without his ears.   A fine copy of this rare work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BURTON, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816161911119,"sku":"L2992","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_4869.jpg?v=1781794893"},{"product_id":"pope-clement-v","title":"Pope Clement V.","description":"\u003cp\u003eProvenance:\u003cbr\u003e\n1. Most probably written and decorated in the decades immediately after 1326, when Johannes Andreae completed his Gloss. With script and decoration pointing towards France and Italy, this codex was likely produced in southern France, perhaps for study in Toulouse (compare the notably similar hand in a contemporary copy of the same work, now Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, MS. 7, and probably made in Avignon for the bishop of Toulouse; and see below on identical layout). The references to the work of ‚ÄòWillielmus Mandagoti‚Äô (f.10v, lower margin), i.e. Cardinal Guillaume de Mandagout (d. 1321), who wrote a treatise on the election of bishops and served as bishop of Aix-en-Provence and then Embrun lends support to this identification.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the sixteenth century the volume appears to have been in private hands in France, and a French hand of this date added the personal motto ‚ÄúDeum timenti bene erit‚Äù to its endleaves.\u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam Bragge (1823-1884) of Birmingham and Sheffield, book collector, civil engineer, proficient linguist and traveller; most probably rebound for him; his sale at Sotheby‚Äôs, 8 June 1876, lot 152, to Quaritch: then their A general catalogue of books [‚Ķ]the supplement: 1875‚Äì1877(1877), no. 18,359.\u003cbr\u003e\nHenry White (1821\/2-1900), FSA, with his armorial bookplate; Sir Sydney Cockerell adding to the front flyleaf that the manuscript was sold in White‚Äôs sale at Sotheby‚Äôs, 21 April 1902, lot 536, to ‚ÄòRidler‚Äô.\u003cbr\u003e\nWilliam Ridler (fl. 1877-1904), London bookseller of the Strand; on him see P. Kidd, Medieval Manuscripts from the collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 2001), pp. xxii‚Äìxxiv.\u003cbr\u003e\nBernard Quaritch Ltd again, c. 1930s: with their characteristic number ‚Äò762‚Äô written obliquely in a rectangle and price-code on the endleaves.\u003cbr\u003e\nSotheby‚Äôs, 6 December 1993, lot 50, to Sam Fogg.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sch√∏yen Collection of London and Oslo, their MS. 2160, recently de-accessioned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eText:\u003cbr\u003e\nThe text opens with a Bull addressed by Pope John XXII (1316-34) to the doctors and scholars of the University of Paris, used here as an introduction. The main text follows on fols. 2r-94v. With its arrival and boom of interest in university teaching, the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries saw the building of the fundamental textual building blocks of Canon Law as an academic subject. From the thirteenth century onwards the study of Canon Law was dominated by the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, a series of explanatory glosses on the law arranged in five books. At the end of the thirteenth century, that was supplemented by the so-called Liber Sextus of Pope Boniface VIII, further clarifying their meaning and legal practice. Following this, in the early fourteenth century, Pope Clement V (1305-14) compiled the so-called Clementines intended to finish this task. These were promulgated less than a month before his death, and ratified by a Bull sent in 1317 to the universities of Bologna, Avignon, and Paris by Clement‚Äôs successor, Pope John XXII. These formed the seventh (and final) compilation of Canon Law and were unofficially known as the ‚ÄòLiber Septimus‚Äô (hence the ‚ÄòL VII‚Äô in the running headings and the ‚Äòseptimi libri‚Äô of the final explicit). The gloss on the text by Johannes Andreae written c. 1322, came to be standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo this, a hand of the fifteenth century added a brief list of contents on the front endleaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLayout:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe mis-en-page here is at first confusing, with no two pages with the same number of lines, and each page laid out to perfectly accommodate the correct gloss and main text on a single side of vellum. In addition, where such arrangements meant that not enough gloss was available to completely fill the space around the main text, the blank marginal space forms gentley sloping triangles or arched indented areas, often with a single final line at the base of the section or page filling up the last line. This last feature has led others to suggest that this was done ‚Äúso that the texts ends on the last line of the page‚Äù, presumably for ornamental affect, but this does not happen on every occasion. We can add that this was used to ensure that each major text division here ends in such a way, but there are further indentations of this form elsewhere as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost other copies of the text in manuscript share some part of this labour-intensive layout, with the empty areas of margin usually rectangular and without the final long line, and that is the form that then made its way into early printings of the text. However, it is notable that the same form also appears in places in the Bryn Mawr manuscript noted above (see in particular fols. 15r, as well as 28r, 34r, 56v-57r), and this may well be a southern French feature, created for visual effect in the papal court‚Äôs time in Avignon (from 1309-76) or perhaps a quirk of texts written for the milieu of Toulouse University. A more wide ranging survey of the physical layout of manuscripts of the text from those centres and others is needed to understand this better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis text is unusually rare in manuscript. We have located only four comparable examples in the US, Yale, Columbia, Pierpont Morgan and the Free Library of Philadelphia. The Harvard manuscript appears to lack Andreae‚Äôs commentary. For a work of such pre-eminent importance both in teaching common law and for practitioners, governing bodies and courts, as well as other institutions, it is remarkable that we know of so few comparable manuscripts. Even more oddly the Constitutiones are one of the most common legal incunabular texts, which suggests that manuscript versions did not just fail to survive up to modern times, but that they were not available, at least in sufficient numbers, even in the second half of the fifteenth-century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pope Clement V.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868709232975,"sku":"L4493","price":75000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG-20250221-WA0005-copy.jpg?v=1781793419"},{"product_id":"paul-v-pope","title":"PAUL V, Pope.","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnrecorded indulgence purchased by a Spanish colonial resident in Mexico on behalf of a woman Spanish settler. It was issued in Madrid by the Consejo y Comisar√≠a de Cruzada, an institution with papal authority but controlled by the Spanish crown, which administered the Bulas de Santa Cruzada, or Bulls of the Holy Crusade, papal indulgences granted to the Spanish Crown and sold in Spain and, from 1578, its colonial territories. The income was originally intended exclusively for the fighting of heathens and heretics, but over time went straight to the Spanish monarchy, and as late as the early nineteenth century was used to prop up expenditure in the colonies. This indulgence refers specifically to Spanish territories in the Americas and Philippines, where it was evidently offered for sale and most likely printed, given the quality of the typesetting and paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe main text states the necessity of the intercession of all the saints for those in purgatory, as well as the torments and horrors of eternal incarceration in the fires of Hell. Cathalina Perez Molero is recorded as having established a sugar hacienda with her husband Pedro de Ylara in Xalapa, near Mexico City, which eventually failed. In the mid-C17th, however, Ylara was a wealthy and important residents of Xalapa, and is recorded as having owned slaves. The connection with Joseph de Goitia appears to have been business related; a Don Joseph de Goitia was killed in the Pueblo Indian Revolt in New Mexico in 1680. Examples of plenary indulgences purchased by de Goitia for Cathalina date to 1662 and as far back as 1639, implying a regular programme of plenary indulgence buying on behalf of Cathalina, who apparently therefore died as early as the 1630s, since indulgences were not meant to be purchased for other living people. Officially, the sale of indulgences had been banned since 1567 after the Council of Trent, but Pope Paul V (1550-1621) had authorised them for sale in the Spanish colonies. De Goitia paid four reales for this example.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PAUL V, Pope.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868724076879,"sku":"L4909","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_6.33.51_PM.png?v=1781804047","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/collections\/papal-bulls.oembed","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}