Sacrosancti et œcumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV. Pontificibus maximis celebrati canones & decreta - Chiffleth, Philippe 1597-1657 (Paris Alliot, 1646)
One of several editions recording the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545-1563)
contains engraved portrait of Pope Paulus III
Philippe Chifflet was a theologian, Cistercian abbot and author from the learned Chifflet family. As chaplain and chaplain, he was an important figure at the court of Brussels. In 1640, Chifflet published a fine and highly successful edition of the decrees of the Council of Trent, in collaboration with the Antwerp publisher-printer Balthasar I Moretus.
Ex libris Jacobi Misulle (manuscript)
Quid in hac editione praestitum sit, sequens Philippi Chiffletii, Abbatis et Ecclesiae Vesontinae Canonici, et Vicarii Gen.is praefatio indicabit.
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Catholicism; Law