Cucchi, Marco Antonio; Naogeorg, Thomas

Institutionum Juris Canonici Libri Quatuor [and] Rubricae Sive Summae.

      Cucchi, Marco Antonio [1506- 1567]. [Gilbert, Martin], Editor. Institutionum Juris Canonici Libri Quatuor, Cum Argumentis & Notis Brevissimis Martini Gilberti. Adjecto Rerum Necessariarum Indice. Lyons: Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1574. 415, [33] pp. [Bound with] Naogeorg, Thomas [1511-1563]. Rubricae Sive Summae Capitulorum Juris Canonici. Adjunctus Quoque est in Calce, Praecipuorum Locorum, Qui in Decretis Tractantur, Index. Lyons: Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1574. 12mo. (4-3/4" x 3"). Seventeenth-century sprinkled sheep, raised bands, gilt gauffered edges, marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to joints, corners and spine, faint vertical crease through center of spine. Large woodcut device to title pages. Light toning to text. Early signatures to title page of first work, interiors otherwise clean. Attractive. * Later editions. These books were produced to serve as convenient references for clergy, church officials and canon lawyers. As such, they offer insight into canon law as it was actually applied in daily practice during the first decades after the rise of Protestantism. Cucchi was an Italian lawyer. This edition contains notes and commentary by Gilbert, a professor of law at the Sorbonne, which display the tension between the Vatican and the French Crown. (Gilbert's preface is dated 1565). Naogeorg, the author of the second work, was a Protestant theologian who is better known as a playwright and controversialist. These were popular works that went through several editions. Of these editions, KVK locates 3 copies of Cucchi, 5 of Naogeorg. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600 C3027 (Cucchi), N34 (Naogeorg).