{"product_id":"mazzolini-da-prieiro-silvestro","title":"MAZZOLINI DA PRIEIRO, Silvestro.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA handsome copy, in its original Flemish binding, of this most important legal work. Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio (or Prierias, 1456\/7-1527) was a Dominican theologian, professor at Bologna, Pavia and Rome, and Master of the Sacred Palace from 1511, by request of Julius II. He is renowned for being the first Catholic theologian to publish a critique based on the Indulgences section of his  Summa  on Luther s theses on papal authority in 1519 (Tavuzzi,  Luther s Catholic Opponents , 224). Among his wide-ranging works, including astronomy and demonology,  Summa summarum , or  Summa Sylvestrina , was the most successful. First published in 1514, it was reprinted over 50 times. It is an alphabetic compendium of varied theological and legal questions, spanning sacraments, adultery, divorce, holy water, natural and illegitimate children, murder, heresy, bigamy, ban for clerics to fight in war, juridical issues (e.g., accusation and oaths), and alchemy, reaffirming Catholic beliefs. The near contemporary annotator noted this in his glosses to the Eucharist section, mentioning the Lutheran position (officially formulated in 1536), based on Mark 14 and Luke 22, that the body and blood of Christ are truly present in the consecrated bread and wine. More generally, he highlighted adding notes from authorities like Gregory IX s  Decretals , and  updates  from the Lateran Council V (1512-17) questions involving criminal law (e.g., if people accused and condemned to execution can defend themselves), canon law (e.g., ecclesiastical benefices, elections, excommunication, masses, burials, simony, superstition), and practical questions such as the materials allowed for the making of chalices (i.e., not prone to rusting or fragility), and that  altars should not be made of wood or earth, but of stone , which he glossed with explanations, also on decorations allowed, with references to the Old Testament. He added glosses on the confessions of condemned criminals, on the scaffold and at the stake. In the C17, this copy was in the library of the monastery of the Augustinians of the Order of the Holy Cross in Cuik, North Brabant. Its wealthy library, with over 1400 books including mss and incunabula, was dispersed after Napoleon s suppression of religion orders in 1812 (Hermans,  Annales , 172). Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MAZZOLINI DA PRIEIRO, Silvestro.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820347367759,"sku":"L3286","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/1.-Mazzolini-cover.jpg?v=1781794810","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/mazzolini-da-prieiro-silvestro","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}