Remove This Book on Pain of Excommunication
BIEL, Gabriel.
Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio … cum assertionibus in margine sacri Conc. Trid. et annotationibus necessariis. Cui in fine addita fuit perspicua sanctiss. altaris sacrificii expositio, autore Zacharia Andriano Brix. … Brescia, Pietro and Tommaso Bozzola, 1576.
4to, pp. [64], 1013 (i.e. 1014), [2]; large woodcut device to title and last page, woodcut initials and headpieces, text within ruled frame; title-page trimmed at foot, small marginal wormholes to first and last few leaves, occasional light marks; very good in modern light brown cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt; ink inscription at foot of title dated 1584 partly obscured by printed label both recording ownership by the library of San Domenico, Bologna; book label to front pastedown recording the gift of this volume by Darwell Stone to Pusey House Library Oxford in 1941, Pusey ink stamps to title and to pp. 611 and 909.
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Sacri canonis Missae lucidiss. expositio … cum assertionibus in margine sacri Conc. Trid. et annotationibus necessariis. Cui in fine addita fuit perspicua sanctiss. altaris sacrificii expositio, autore Zacharia Andriano Brix. …
Brescia edition of an exposition of the Canon of the Mass by the important German scholastic philosopher and theologian Gabriel Biel (d. 1495), with a sixteenth-century printed label threatening with excommunication anyone who would remove this volume from the library.
Educated at Heidelberg, Erfurt, and Cologne, Biel joined the Brethren of the Common Life at Marienthal. One of the founders of the university of Tübingen, he held a professorial chair of theology there. He was a follower of William of Ockham and is considered one of the last great medieval scholastic thinkers. His Expositio, based on the work of Egeling Becker (d. 1481) and first published in 1488, is joined in this post-Tridentine edition by another work on the Mass by Zaccaria Andriani, a canon regular of San Giorgio in Alga, first issued in 1573. This edition carries the name of Pietro Bozzola on the title-page, and that of Tommaso Bazzola in the colophon.
Provenance: the partially obscured inscription at the foot of the title-page records that this volume was given in 1584 to the library of the basilica of San Domenico in Bologna by Father Feliciano, a preacher of Sant’Agata. The adjacent printed label affirms this ownership and threatens anyone who removes this book from the said library with excommunication. Later in the library of the Anglo-Catholic theologian Darwell Stone (1859–1941), who served as principal of Pusey House, Oxford, from 1909 to 1934.
USTC 814469; Adams B 2025.