Ductor dubitantium, or, The rule of conscience in all her general measures : serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience : in four books ... / by Jeremy Taylor ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.

Contributor:

Leake, John, active 1673-1717, printer.

Horton, William, printer.

Meredith, Luke, -1700, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conscience--Early works to 1800.

Conscience.

Casuistry--Early works to 1800.

Casuistry.

Penn Provenance:

Norris, Charles Camblos, 1876- (donor) (RBC copy)

Norris, Isaac, 1802-1890 (autograph) (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Heap, George, approximately 1715-1752 (former owner) (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, xxvi, 819 pages, 25 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 35 cm (folio)

Edition:

The fourth edition.

Other Title:

Ductor dubitantium

Rule of conscience in all her general measures

Fingerprint:

orl- htam t.n- Thun (3) 1696 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J.L. [that is, John Leake] for Luke Meredith ..., MDCXCVI [1696]

Notes:

Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title leaf.

Printer's name from ESTC.

Book 3 has special dated title leaf which reads: Of humane laws, their obligation, and relaxation: and of the collateral, indirect, and accidental bands of conscience. The third book. London, Printed for Luke Meredith, 1696.

Book 4 has special dated title leaf which reads: Of the nature and causes of good and evil, their limits and circumstances, their aggravations and diminutions. The fourth book. London, Printed by W.H. [i.e. William Horton] for Luke Meredith, at the Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCXCVI.

Signatures: [A]² a-b⁶ c² B-3Z⁶ 4A-4G².

Engraved portrait and title vignette.

Printed marginalia.

First edition, 1660. Published later under title: The rule of conscience.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has a few early ms. marginal notes in ink and pencil in text; early ms. numeral ("20/") on front pastedown; early ms. numeral ("24") on front free endpaper.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Charles C. Norris.

RBC copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris (1802-1890) on front pastedown beneath dated 19th-century ms. provenance note ("March 6. 1826 This Book of the Interpretation and Exposition of Cases of Conscience by Jeremy Taylor was presented to me by my father. Isaac Norris") signed by him; his dated 19th-century autograph ("Isaac Norris March 6. 1826.") on title leaf.

RBC copy has ms. note ("Bought at Geo: Heap's[?] Vendue") in brown ink on title leaf, possibly in the hand of Joseph Parker Norris (1763-1841).

RBC copy has hand-colored woodcut illustration of a flowering plant laid in.

RBC copy bound in early full blind-tooled calf; 6 raised bands on spine; all edges stippled red. Boards detached and damaged; spine damaged.

Cited in:

ESTC R10568

Wing (2nd ed.) T327

OCLC:

2378368