Disputationum de s.to matrimonii sacramento authore Thoma Sanchez Cordubensi e Societate Iesu libri decem in tres tomos distributi.

Tomas Sanchez (Thomas Sanchez)

Venetiis : apud Ioannem Guerilium, 1619

3 volumes in 2. Bound in contemporary vellum. Expected age soiling to vellum. Ink blots to Tome I front board. Old ink marks to vellum.  Boards starting, front board of Tome II detached. Moderate wear with loss to spine. Auction slip and note pasted to front pastedown of Tome I. Several old ink signatures to title pages marked out. Personal library stamp of Paul J. Nussbaum, first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi, to title page, erased with White Out. Dampstaining to first and last pages of Tome II affecting text. Brunet, V, 115; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 532; Englisch, Der erotischen literatur, 145; Palau 294482.

Early work on the moral theology of marriage and detailed descriptions of married life for excitement.·Notorious work, whose minuteness in describing marital difficulties and irregularities raised a storm of protest from the outraged clergy and caused its temporary suppression. This edition contains suppressed article "Sanchez, Thom. Disputationum de Sacramento Matrimonii tom. III. Ed. Venetiae, sive alarium , a quibus 1.8 disp. 7 detractus est integer num. 4. Decr. 4 Febr. 1627" (this sheet was bound in later). This was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, the grounds being not the doctrine of the author, but the perversion of the work and the suppression of what the author taught. Omitted from the 1614 edition, but present in this copy. This article treats of the power of the pope to grant a valid legitimation of the offspring of marriages invalid only through canon law through the so-called sanatio in radice. The author's mode of expression shows a not always pleasing verbosity.