Wording of the title varies: tome 2, Operis de virtute et statu religionis; tomes 3-4, Operis de religione

Tomes 3-4 were published by Iacob Cardon and Pierre Cavellat

Signatures: tome 1: [pilcrow]⁴ A-3L⁶ 3M⁸(3M₈ verso blank); tome 2: [pilcrow]⁴ A-3Z⁶ 4A⁸; tome 3: *⁶ A-3L⁶ 3M⁸(3M₈ verso blank); tome 4: *⁸ A-3Z⁶ 4A⁶(-4A₆)

Title pages in red and black; title vignettes (printer's device of Horace Cardon) on tomes 1 & 2; tomes 3 & 4 with engraved, architectural border with portraits of Saints Gregorius, Ambrosius, Hieronimus and Augustinus, and with a portrait of the author at the foot pedestal and the Jesuit device surmounting at top

Head- and tailpieces; initials; printed in double columns; printed marginalia

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Formerly classified as:

Burns Library copy: ink stamp on title pages, tomes 1-4: Boston College Library, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; bookseller's label at fore-edge foot of front pastedowns, tomes 3 & 4: Sold by Thomas Baker, Bookseller, 72, Newman Street, London, W

Burns Library copy: bound in light vellum over pasteboard boards; each volume has two kinds of vellum: a light, supple, clean quarter-binding over which a darker, stained vellum sheet was applied

Burns Library copy: tomes 1 & 2 with manuscript titles, in the same hand, on foot of textblock: Suar. D: Rel: T.1[-2]; tomes 3 & 4 with the same textblock titles, but in a different hand: Suar. de Rel. T.3[-4]

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