Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Leo I, Epistolae decretales ac familiares, Cologne, 1548, Roman chestnut morocco gilt by Niccolò Franzese
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2,600 GBP
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LEO I. D. Leonis papae huius nominis primi, qui merito summo magni cognomen iam olim obtinet, Epistolae decretales ac familiares, quae quidem hactenus reperiri potuerunt omnes. Altera iam vice summa cum providentia ad antiquissima exemplaria correctae. Cologne: Melchior von Neuss, 1548
It has been suggested that this binding was made for Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, before he became Pope Julius III in 1550; a binding containing a similar (but not identical) St John the Baptist stamp was made for Cardinal Giulio del Monte (De Marinis 854).
8vo (157 x 98 mm). Roman type, 33 lines plus headline. collation: *8 a-z Aa8: 199 leaves (of 200, without final blank). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, woodcut initials. (Occasional light browning, last two quires with wormholes at head.)
binding: Contemporary Roman chestnut morocco gilt (160 x 109mm), by Niccolò Franzese, covers with gilt interlaced frame with solid and outline leafy stamps, small gilt stamp of St John the Baptist surrounded by leafy stamps, spine with small gilt flower in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered to a knotwork design, stubs from two pairs of ties. (Binding repaired at edges, along joints and at ends of spine, later pastedowns, slight ink stains on lower edge of textblock.)
provenance: Arthur Jeffrey Parsons (1856-1915), sale, American Art Association, New York, 24 January 1923, part of lot 138 — Ernst Kyriss (1881-1974), small EK inkstamp on title-page — G.E., bookplate — A.J.P., purple stamp on inside lower cover — Lars Viktor Styrbjörn von Stedingk (1899-1983), bookplate and pencil notes on flyleaf and inside lower cover — Christie’s South Kensington, 27 November 2012, lot 57. acquisition: Purchased in 2018 from Mayfair Rare Books, London. references: VD16 K 191; Anthony Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, p.84, list C item 62