Opusculum theophilosophicum de principatu, seu antelatione Marianae gratiae illud S. Joannis Damasceni oratione prima de nativitate Virginis Mariae circa principium explanans effatum: etenim natura gratiae cedit, ac tremula stat progredi non sustinens: quoniam futurum erat, ut deigenitrix virgo ex Anna oriertur, natura gratiae fatum antevertere minimè ausa est; virùm tantisper expectavit, dum grati fructuum suum produxisset. Ubi concordatà physicà cum theologia; naturà cum gratia; scientià cum religione; scholasticam accendit facem as primordialem Immaculatae Virginis Dei-Genitricis in primo suae conceptionis instanti gratiam nonnihil illuminandam
By: A patre Francisco Xaverio Lazcano, Societatis Jesu, in regali, ac pontificia mexicana academia professore theologo elucubratum
Contributors: American Antiquarian Society; Convento de la Merced (Mexico City, Mexico); Biblioteca Palafoxiana (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico)
Publisher: Ex typographia regalis, & antiquioris S. Ildefonsi Collegis
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Mexici
Language: lat
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Theology; Marcas de fuego; Immaculate Conception
Notes: Text printed in two parallel columns.

Signatures: [par]⁴ ([par.]1 verso blank) 2[par.]⁴ A-T⁴

Errata: p. [2], 3rd count.

Errors in paging: p. 99 misnumbered 96.

Title printed within woodcut ornamental border; printer's ornaments on title page with the IHS with cross and anchor; head and ail pieces; initials.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, IV: col. 1603-1604, no. 6.

Medina, J.T. Imprenta en ̌Mxico (1539-1821), 3999.

Purchase; 2017; 62-355.

Purchase; 2017; 18-005.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary full limp vellum with ties.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund and was acquired by the American Antiquarian Society in 1910.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Destinatur Bibliothecae S. Petri Paschasij Mexicani Collegij, sapientissimae Redemptorium familiae: ms. inscription on recto of front flyleaf; Convento de la Merced (ciudad de ̌Mxico): marca de fuego [BEFK-7006] on head of text block.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 had an engraved plate including the figures of Saint John of Damascus and St. John the Baptist bound between p. [16], 1st count, and p. 1, 2nd count, not mentioned in Medina; the plate is dated 1749.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full limp vellum with ties.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 acquired with the assistance of the Gregorian Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Universidad Catolica Angelopolitana Biblioteca [i.e. Biblioteca Palafoxiana]: book stamp on title page.