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Petrus de Maridat - Tractatus De Pileo - 1655

Petrus de Maridat - Tractatus De Pileo - 1655

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Title

Tractatus De Pileo, Coeterisque Capitis Tegminibus Tam Sacris Quam Profanis

Author

Petrus de Maridat [Theophile Raynaud]

Year

1655

Publisher

J. Champion et C. Fourmy

Description

First Edition. A treatise systematically examining hats and head coverings. The work addresses sacred and secular headwear, including Catholic episcopal mitres, cardinal’s hats, Jewish rabbinical caps, royal French crowns, and female headdresses. Raynaud, a 17th-century Jesuit theologian, situates headwear within religious, ceremonial, and social frameworks, providing historical context, usage, and symbolic significance. The text reflects seventeenth-century Jesuit scholarship’s engagement with material culture and ritual practice, documenting headgear as a marker of office, status, and identity across religious and secular spheres.

[11], 184 pp., [8]

Condition

Vellum binding, clean pages, some discolouration, small loss to bottom margin of p. 11, not affecting text.

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