Live veiling - Lot 1257
Les vies, faictz et gestes des sainctz peres, papes, empereurs, et roys de France. Ensemble les heresies, scismes, concilles, guerres & autres choses dignes de memoire [...] depuis tournees en Francoys.
Onderwerp: [Papacy - World history]
PLATINA
€ 200 / 300
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Beschrijving lot
Paris, J. Ruelle, 1544
8vo: [18]-cccc.lvii [= 471] ff. (3 final ff. NN8, OO1-2 missing).
Old vellum, spine titled in ink (sl. loosening, sm. def. to spine). Good copy.
Rare French translation of the Vitae pontificum, Platina’s (1421-1481) famous chronicle of the papacy through its 1500-year history (1st printed 1479). Woodcut mark on title. Numerous small woodcut "portraits" of popes. The book was sold "a l’e(n)seigne de la queue de Renart".
Ref. BP16 111819. - Pettegree (FB) 43950.
Prov. Jesuit ownership entry on title.
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