Theologia Dogmatico-Moralis Secundum Ordinem Catechismi Concilii Tridentini (Paris, 1759),  669 pages.
SECOND VOLUME.


LOGLINE:  is a Latin theological manuscript that organizes Catholic dogmatic and moral theology according to the structure of the Roman Catechism. Intended for the formation of clergy and advanced theological study, it reflects the enduring influence of the doctrinal and pastoral reforms of the Council of Trent in eighteenth-century France.

Important Note: handwritten notes in Spanish on "reserved cases" (casos reservados) , sins so grave that an ordinary parish confessor could not absolve them, absolution reserved to the Bishop or his delegates.

The list is a vivid snapshot of 18th-century moral and legal preoccupations: church property disputes, clerical poaching of parishioners, solicitation in the confessional, sodomy (still a capital crime in Spain at that time), witchcraft, perjury, forgery, and violence against parents. This kind of contemporary manuscript annotation gives the volume genuine research interest for historians of religion and everyday Catholic practice.

PERFECT FOR:

Scholars and academics. Historians of moral theology, especially anyone studying the 18th-century Jansenist/rigorist vs. Jesuit probabilism debates — Concina was a central polemicist in that fight. Also historians of the Counter-Reformation's long afterlife, since works keyed to the Tridentine Catechism show how Trent was still structuring Catholic teaching 200 years later.

Traditional Catholic clergy and seminarians. Priests attached to the Tridentine tradition (SSPX, FSSP, and similar communities) sometimes collect pre-Vatican II and early-modern moral manuals as reference works, and the Roman Catechism remains a touchstone text for them
.
Rare book collectors. Specifically collectors of Latin theological imprints, 18th-century Parisian printing, or Dominicana. A complete 669-page volume from 1759 in decent condition has real shelf appeal for someone building a religious-history library.
Institutional buyers. Seminary libraries, Catholic university special collections, and Dominican houses of study — institutions filling gaps in their early-modern theology holdings.

Latinists. People who read ecclesiastical Latin for pleasure or study and want period source material rather than modern editions.

A traditionalist priest or scholar-collector who reads Latin.

Interior Decorators, who prefer to used original, authentic 18th century manuscripts in their projects.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES:

1. Handwritten notes in Spanish in the front, pertaining to sins reserved to the Bishop for adjudication/absolution

2. Ecclesiastical Library stamp , Seville, Spain.

3. Provenance - acquired directly from the private library of estate of UCLA historian Hayden White , who purchased

this for study during the 1950's as a Fulbright Scholar in Italy. Estate in Pacific Palisades, L.A., California.

The influential intellectual historian and theorist Hayden White was born on July 12, 1928, and passed away on March 5, 2018.He was best known for his groundbreaking 1973 book, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. In it, he argued that history is not an objective science. Instead, he proposed that historical accounts are essentially literary narratives heavily shaped by the author's storytelling style.

CAUTIONS: (for transparency)

1. Contemporary Calf or Vellum?  I don't have relevant expertise in this as I am NOT a rare book dealer, I am a historical ephemera
collector. Please see the photographs. Glad to take more pictures.

2. Please do NOT bid if you expect a manuscript published in 1759 Venice, Italy  (from content written in Paris, France) to be in perfect  condition. Offered "as is, as found" at estate sale of UCLA Historian Hayden White. Please read the condition notes.

3. This is likely an abridged version, AND is the SECOND VOLUME (see first photograph) that deals specifically with these topics which would have been of interest to a historian, the previous owner:

I. On Marriage. II. On Sins. III. On the Virtues.
IV. On the Ten Commandments. V. On Prayer.

TRANSLATION OF THE TITLE PAGE:

Original (Latin)

English

THEOLOGIA

THEOLOGY

DOGMATICO-MORALIS

DOGMATIC-MORAL

Secundum Ordinem Catechismi

According to the Order of the Catechism

CONCILII TRIDENTINI.

OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT.

EDITIO OMNIUM ACCURATISSIMA,

THE MOST ACCURATE EDITION OF ALL,

Plurimis Accessionibus, & Notis, variis Epistolis,

Enlarged, illustrated, and enriched with very many additions and notes, various letters,

& Monumentis aucta, illustrata, & locupletata.

and documents.

TOMUS SECUNDUS

SECOND VOLUME

UBI AGITUR

IN WHICH ARE TREATED:

I. De Matrimonio. II. De Peccatis. III. De Virtutibus.

I. On Marriage. II. On Sins. III. On the Virtues.

IV. De Decalogo. V. De Oratione.

IV. On the Ten Commandments. V. On Prayer.

AUCTORE

BY THE AUTHOR

R. P. F. NATALI ALEXANDRO

The Reverend Father Friar Natalis Alexander (Noël Alexandre)

Ordinis FF. Prædicatorum, in Sacra Facultate Parisiensi Doctore,

Of the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans), Doctor of the Sacred Faculty of Paris,

& emerito Theologiæ Professore.

and Professor Emeritus of Theology.

PARISIIS, MDCCLIX.

PARIS, 1759.

Prostat VENETIIS Apud Nicolaum Pezzana.

For sale in VENICE, at the house of Nicolaus Pezzana.

The oval purple stamp reads "Biblioteca del Seminario Pontificio de Sevilla" — Library of the Pontifical Seminary of Seville, Spain. The pencil "8-14" is an old shelf mark or dealer price code.


TRANSLATION OF THE SPANISH NOTES , HANDWRITTEN IN THE FRONT INSIDE PAGE:

Language: Spanish, in a characteristic 18th-century Spanish cursive hand. It's a list titled "Casos reservados en el Obispado para su absolución" — "Cases reserved in the Bishopric for absolution." A few words are obscured by staining, so bracketed portions are my best reconstruction:

Original (Spanish)

English

Casos reservados en el Obispado para [su absolución]

Cases reserved to the Bishopric for [their absolution]

1. Los Párrocos o Beneficiados que obligan o inducen a los feligreses de otra Parroquia a que se pasen a la suya.

1. Parish priests or beneficed clergy who compel or induce the parishioners of another parish to transfer to their own.

2. Los que ocupan o retienen los bienes de las Iglesias, o impiden cobrar las rentas eclesiásticas, u de gozar sus frutos.

2. Those who occupy or withhold the property of the churches, or prevent the collection of ecclesiastical revenues or the enjoyment of their fruits.

3. Los que no cumplen los preceptos de la Iglesia en el tiempo determinado por ella, y señalado en las Constituciones Sinodales.

3. Those who do not fulfill the precepts of the Church within the time determined by her and specified in the Synodal Constitutions.

4. Los que tienen cópula carnal con Religiosa profesa, o con parienta o afín en primero o segundo grado, o con la que oye de confesión.

4. Those who have carnal relations with a professed nun, or with a blood relative or in-law in the first or second degree, or (a priest) with a woman whose confession he hears.

5. El que comete pecado nefando o bestialidad.

5. He who commits the "unspeakable sin" (sodomy) or bestiality.

6. Los que juran en falso en perjuicio de tercero.

6. Those who swear falsely to the injury of a third party.

7. Los que públicamente blasfeman.

7. Those who publicly blaspheme.

8. Los Encantadores, Supersticiosos, o Hechiceros [/Venéficos].

8. Enchanters, practitioners of superstition, or sorcerers [/poisoners].

9. Los que falsifican cualquier instrumento público.

9. Those who falsify any public instrument (official document).

10. Los que ponen manos violentas en su Padre o Madre.

10. Those who lay violent hands upon their Father or Mother.

(–58)

(an old inventory, catalog, or price mark)

Historical context

The author. Noël Alexandre (Natalis Alexander, 1639–1724) was a French Dominican and one of the great church historians and theologians of his era. His ecclesiastical history had been placed on the Index of Forbidden Books for its Gallican leanings, but after correction the work was removed from the Index by Pope Benedict XIII, and many editions followed. His Theologia dogmatica et moralis, first published in Paris in 1693 in ten octavo volumes, was a commentary structured on the Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent (1545–63). It became a standard seminary textbook across Catholic Europe for over a century.

The imprint. The "Parisiis... Prostat Venetiis" formula is typical of the period: the Pezzana firm of Venice, one of the most prolific Catholic publishing houses of the 17th–18th centuries, reprinted Parisian works for the huge Italian, Spanish, and Latin American market. Many "Paris" imprints from Pezzana were actually printed in Venice — a common commercial fiction of the era.


A personal note; This manuscript has been a valued addition to our home since I acquired it not long before the pandemic began.
My prime motivation is that this go to a good home; someone that has a passion for original, historical period items and a good story
as I do. For sure , the manuscript is not in museum condition, but then neither is most items 267 years old.

I welcome your fair & reasonable offer. 

NOTES:

1. Manuscript dimensions are  length - 15 " , width - 9" , spine - 2 1/16 inches. Won't fit in USPS medium flat rate box; I will carefully
pack in a strong box/envelope with multiple padding and pay extra USPS insurance if final value exceeds $100.00. I will REFUND any postage not used if the difference is more than $1.00 US.  USPS Priority Mail recommended, minimum is USPS Ground Advantage.

2.I encourage you to read this listing in detail, view the photographs, ask questions, and compare comps of my competitors offering similar original, period manuscripts from mid-1700's. Make the decision that serves you best. Live long & prosper.

3.I go to estate sales every weekend, new listings consistently.