ROSEMONDT, Godschalk.

Confessionale Godtscalci Rosemondi.(colophons: Antwerp, Hendrick Eckert van Homberch (printed by Michael Hillenius van Hoochstraten) and sold at Louvain by Thielmann, bookseller to the university, 14 May 1518). Small 8vo (12.5 x 9 cm). Title-page in red and black, with a woodcut coat of arms of King Carlos I of Spain above the privilege statement, the author's woodcut "[Rose]mondt" rebus signature, and a decorative woodcut initial. With the contemporary owner's inscription of Johannis vande Putte on the title-page, a 16-line contemporary Latin inscription at the end, and some marginal manus...

cclxxxviii, (8) ll. BMC STC Dutch, p. 180; Machiels R-266; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1819 (4 copies);Karlsruher Virt. Kat (7 copies); OCLC WorldCat. (1 copy); cf. Adams R-782 (1519 ed.); for the author: NNBW VI, cols. 820-831, discussing this ed. at cols. 829-830; for the printer, publisher and bookseller: Rouzet, pp. 60-61, 94-96, 220-221.First edition of a Latin treatise on sin (especially the seven deadly sins) and excommunication (especially of Protestants), by the Louvain inquisitor Godschalk Rosemondt (Eindhoven ca. 1483-Louvain 1526). It shares some of its content as well as its amiable tone with his Dutch Boecxken vander Biechten, published one year earlier, but it is not a translation, the content reflecting the fact that it is intended for a better-educated reader. These are Rosemondt's most important publications. He was less dogmatic than most inquisitors and his writings have been compared with those of Erasmus. This is the first publication to draw upon the Summa of Thomas Aquinas to resolve conflicts of conscience. Rosemondt's statements in chapter XX, "De Excommunicatione," were deemed by Pope Benedict XIV to be in discord with the views of the church. Although Rosemondt bases his arguments on old concepts of Catholic clerical law, he expanded these principles to a much greater extent than the church was prepared to accept. His charming woodcut rebus signature, below the first colophon (at the end of the main text but before the fifteen-page list of the contents) shows a realistic rose followed by "mondt" and a pen flourish. A second colophon appears at the end of the contents list.A very good copy. A contoversial work on sin and excommunication by an unusually moderate inquisitor.

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