1581 Spanish Inquisition & Loyola Confessor Manual Juan Polanco Spanish JESUIT

1581 Spanish Inquisition & Loyola Confessor Manual Juan Polanco Spanish JESUIT

Juan Alfonso de Polanco was a 16^th-century Spanish Jesuit priest known for being a close adviser of Ignatius of Loyola and a central figure in the establishment of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits. He composed a number of liturgical works including ‘Brief Direction for Confessors’, a manual designed to aid Catholic confessors. It was written to explain various aspects of the Catholic Church such as confession, ecclesiastical interrogation, and excommunication.

This rare 1581 Latin edition was published in Antwerp and is bound in decorative, blind-stamped vellum.

Item number: #4345

Price: $795

POLANCO, Juan Alfonso de

Breve directorivm ad confessarii ac confitentis mvnvs recte obevndvm

Antverpiae : apud Joannem Bellerum, 1581.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all 113 leaves:
  • (226 pages)
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~5.25in X 3.25in (13.5cm x 8cm)
• Rare with no other example for sale worldwide

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