Sermons sur les mystères de la Vierge …Seconde edition

Paris: Edme Couterot, 1671. Second edition (same year as the first). Title with engraved vignette. [14], 393, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown calf. Covers rubbed, spine defective. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper and title page; ex-library, stanp in red of St. Joseph’s Seminary of New York. Second edition (same year as the first). Title with engraved vignette. [14], 393, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Biroat (d. 1666) was a theologian, the prior of the monastery of Cluny at Beussan, and counsellor and preacher at the French court. Several assages from this collection of his sermons on the Virgin Mary have been cited in support of the ordination of women as priests (v. http://www.womenpriests.org/mrpriest/biroat.asp).