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19 volumes (of eventually 31). Illustrated with title page vignettes, vols. 1 and 19 with engraved frontispiece. (Folio) 40x28 cm (16x10"), modern cloth, spines printed in black.

Gian (Giovanni) Domenico Mansi  was an Italian prelate, theologian, scholar and historian, known for his massive works on the Church councils. This, the best-known publication of Mansi, is his vast edition of the Councils, Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, which was stopped by lack of resources in the middle of the Council of Florence of 1438. Included are volumes 1-19 of an eventual 31.The absence of an index renders it inconvenient, and in a critical point of view it leaves an immensity to be desired. Mansi saw only fourteen volumes of it published, the others were finished from his notes.