(Religion) - PLATINA, II.- Historia de vitis pontificum romanorum [...]. Coloniae, apud Maternum Cholinum, 1574. 3 parts in 1 vol. in-f° : [24]-429-[3 bl.], 104, 76-[28] pp. (slightly browned, some handwritten notes in the margins and corrections in...
Estimation :
200 / 250
Description
the text, a few words crossed off in Platina's life, rare foxing, marginal tears, some repaired as on title-page, several stains on pp. 76-[77] of last part). Contemporary binding : pigskin, boards fully blind stamped with fillets and roll-stamps (floral ornaments and Virtues), gilt decorated ribbed spine, blue eges, guards (17th Cent. calf stuck on the original spine, rubbed spine and turn ins, small lacks, upper joint partly split, ties lacking, corners dulled).
Principal work of Bartholomeo Sacchi de Platina known as "Il Platina" (1421-1481), Italian scholar and librarian of the Vatican. First published in 1479, this history of popes was completed and revised by several authors like the Augustinian hermit Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568) who gave this edition and wrote the ecclesiastical timeline in the second part. Followed by two treatises of Panvinio (on the burial rites among early Christians and religious feasts celebrated in Rome) and an explanatory index. The third part of this work is composed of other opuscula by Platina as "De Falso & Vero bono, dialogi", "Contra amores", "De vera nobilitate", etc. Vignette of Maternus Cholinus on title-page; one historiated initial letter at the dedication. # Adams P-1425; # Machiels P-948; # Soltész P-594; # VD 16 P 3266. ▲ Provenance : Michel Wittock (emblazoned ex-libris). T Histoire des papes donnée par Panvinio, suivie d'une chronologie ecclésiastique du même et divers traités. Pleine peau de truie de l'ép. (lég. bruni, déch. marg., qqs-unes réparées, dos en veau collé sur le dos originel au 17e s.).
Principal work of Bartholomeo Sacchi de Platina known as "Il Platina" (1421-1481), Italian scholar and librarian of the Vatican. First published in 1479, this history of popes was completed and revised by several authors like the Augustinian hermit Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568) who gave this edition and wrote the ecclesiastical timeline in the second part. Followed by two treatises of Panvinio (on the burial rites among early Christians and religious feasts celebrated in Rome) and an explanatory index. The third part of this work is composed of other opuscula by Platina as "De Falso & Vero bono, dialogi", "Contra amores", "De vera nobilitate", etc. Vignette of Maternus Cholinus on title-page; one historiated initial letter at the dedication. # Adams P-1425; # Machiels P-948; # Soltész P-594; # VD 16 P 3266. ▲ Provenance : Michel Wittock (emblazoned ex-libris). T Histoire des papes donnée par Panvinio, suivie d'une chronologie ecclésiastique du même et divers traités. Pleine peau de truie de l'ép. (lég. bruni, déch. marg., qqs-unes réparées, dos en veau collé sur le dos originel au 17e s.).
