Positiones ex universis disciplinis theologici 1783

Antoninus Selyei – Positiones ex universis disciplinis theologici, quas coram Reverendissimo, Perillustrī ac Amplissimo Domino, Caesareo-Regio Facultatis Theologicae Praeside ac Directore, Palatio Academico Majori, pro laurea doctorali publice propugnandas suscipit Admodum Reverendus, Perillustris, ac Doctissimus Dominus Antoninus Selyei de Nemes-Jacz, AA. LL. & Philosophiae Magister, SS. Theologiae Baccalaureus formatus, Archi-Dioecesis Strigoniensis privilegiati oppidi Vittecz Capellanus curatus. Anno MDCCLXXXIII, die Mensis Junii, hora quinta pomeridiana.(Theses theologicae) [“Propositions from the Entire Range of Theological Disciplines, which the Most Reverend, Most Illustrious and Most Distinguished Lord Antoninus Selyei of Nemes-Jacz — Master of Arts and Philosophy, formally qualified Bachelor of Sacred Theology, parish chaplain of the privileged town of Vittecz in the Archdiocese of Esztergom — undertakes to defend publicly for the doctoral laureate, before the Most Reverend and Illustrious Lord, the Imperial-Royal President and Director of the Theological Faculty, in the Great Academic Hall. In the year 1783, on the ___ day of the month of June, at the fifth hour in the afternoon.] [Strigonii (Esztergom)?: s.n.], 1783. 8vo (20 × 12.5 cm). [16], 47 pp. Contemporary full calf, worn; floral pastedowns. Scarce late-18th-century Hungarian theological thesis printed in Latin, issued under the presidency of Cardinal Henricus Noris’ intellectual tradition and reflecting post-Tridentine scholastic culture in Central Europe. Woodcut ornaments and historiated initials; includes a section on the Gottschalk controversy (“Historiae Gothescalcae synopsis”). A survival in original binding despite heavy rubbing, with sound text and pleasing internal paper. Inv. H2