1742 DE DISCRETIONE SPIRITUUM LIBER UNUS By Cardinal Jean Bona

Please email for Photographs or further information. Good - 8vo (170 × 100 mm). Vellum modestly soiled and creased; yapp edges worn; manuscript spine titling legible; text-block sound; faint marginal tide mark to prelims; scattered foxing; deckle edges. No worming. Early scholasticate stamp "Scolasticat Soc. de Marie" to title; small early shelf label "E.P." to pastedown. A solid, complete, and pleasing example. Complete as issued. Graesse I, 498 (Bona) Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes Hurter, Nomenclator, III, 183–4 (Bona’s mystico-ascetical corpus) Backer-Sommervogel II, 1716 (Jesuit reception) Collation: I. De Discretione Spirituum: [2] blanks, Title 1f., [1]; Index a2-a4: pp. 5–10; Text pp. 1–360. II. Via Compendii ad Deum: Title 1f., [1]; Praefatio A2–A4; Index A4–A7; Text pp. 6–230; [2] terminal blanks. Please see Photos as part of condition report. 1742 DE DISCRETIONE SPIRITUUM LIBER UNUS By Cardinal Jean Bona Format: Vellum, Small/Crown octavo (8vo 5 3?8 × 8 in 137 × 203 mm ) Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: Latin Published By: Jo: Mariam Lazzaroni, Venice Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Good - 8vo (170 × 100 mm). Vellum modestly soiled and creased; yapp edges worn; manuscript spine titling legible; text-block sound; faint marginal tide mark to prelims; scattered foxing; deckle edges. No worming. Early scholasticate stamp "Scolasticat Soc. de Marie" to title; small early shelf label "E.P." to pastedown. A solid, complete, and pleasing example. Complete as issued. Graesse I, 498 (Bona) Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes Hurter, Nomenclator, III, 183–4 (Bona’s mystico-ascetical corpus) Backer-Sommervogel II, 1716 (Jesuit reception) Collation: I. De Discretione Spirituum: [2] blanks, Title 1f., [1]; Index a2-a4: pp. 5–10; Text pp. 1–360. II. Via Compendii ad Deum: Title 1f., [1]; Praefatio A2–A4; Index A4–A7; Text pp. 6–230; [2] terminal blanks. Please see Photos as part of condition report. Author Bio: Giovanni Bona (1609–1674), a Cistercian and later Cardinal, was among the great systematisers of early-modern Catholic spirituality. De Discretione Spirituum is his most sought-after mystical-theological text: a careful attempt to distinguish divine promptings from natural impulses or demonic deception — deeply influential in later Benedictine, Jesuit, and French school spiritual traditions. Bound here, as issued, with his concise mystical theology manual Via Compendii ad Deum. Synopsis: A desirable Venetian printing of Bona’s classic treatises on mystical theology and the discernment of spirits, in its original limp vellum binding with manuscript spine title and surviving tie remnants. A compact and handsome devotional volume intended for spiritual directors, monastic houses, and those practised in ascetic theology. Part 1 De Discretione Spirituum, Liber Unus Part 2 Via Compendii ad Deum. DE DISCRETIONE SPIRITUUM LIBER UNUS [DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS] - discernment supposes the principle that two spirits may possess man, the spirit of good [Angels] and the spirit of evil [Demons] - one of the earliest and most influential Catholic systematic texts on spiritual discernment — later referenced in Jesuit and mystical literature. Roman Catholic The book concerns: Recognizing authentic divine inspiration vs. imagination, emotion, or deception Spiritual psychology and mystical theology The role of grace, prayer, humility, and asceticism Criteria for discernment derived from Church Fathers, especially St. Bernard Practical instruction for monks, confessors, and theologians Index (table of contents) highlights: Difficulty & necessity of discernment Types of grace Classification of spirits Interior vs exterior inspiration Dangers of false spiritual impulses Essentially: how to judge spiritual experiences - For full description please contact the seller 2 Small/Crown octavo (8v.…