Summa of Saint Raymond of Penyafort of the Order of Preachers

Summa of Raymond of Penyafort (c. 1175–1275), the Catalan Dominican canonist and Master General of the Order of Preachers, augmented with the full text of the sacred canons cited therein. Raymond's Summa — composed c. 1224–1234 — is a systematic handbook of penitential and matrimonial law organized in four books: the first three covering simony, usury, homicide, theft, and related moral and canonical matters for use in the confessional; the fourth treating matrimony. This 1744 Verona edition, revised against manuscript sources, was prepared under the direction of the Dominican Order and printed at the Seminary Press by Augustino Carattonius.