Catholic Church. Diocese (Milan). Constitutiones et decreta condita in prouinciali synodo Mediolanensi. Sub ill.mo & r.mod.d. Carolo Borrhomaeo S.R.E. tit. S. Praxedis presbytero cardinali, & S. Sedis Apostolicae per uniuersam Italiam legato de latere archiepiscopo Mediolani. Venice : [Paolo Manuzio], 1566
First edition, in a striking filigree binding that represents Venice's ties to the Near East; the techniques employed in the present design had been practised in Coptic Egypt since the eighth century, or possibly earlier. This type of filigree binding was revived in Italy in the fifteenth century. Anthony Hobson records only eleven Venetian examples from the sixteenth century, including the present lot (Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, p.150, list G, no.11).
8vo (150 x 102 mm). Roman and italic types. collation: *8 A-O8 P-S8 T4: 156 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Foxing.)
binding: Venetian filigree binding, ca. 1566, red morocco (155 x 110 mm), blind and gilt fillet borders with mitered corners, framing central and corner compartments cut-away and lined with dark green silk adorned with gold-painted gesso filigree, stubs from two pairs of ties, spine with three raised bands and two semi-raised bands, multiple blind fillets outlining spine bands, gilt edges. Housed in green cloth box. (Corners, spine ends, and portion of upper hinge expertly repaired.)
provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1966, lot 98, £32, to Maggs Bros — Michael Wittock (1936-2020), bookplate, his sale, Christie's, London, 7 July 2004, lot 82. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 760; Edit16 28264; Renouard 199/2; Anthony Hobson & Paul Culot, Italian and French 16th- century bookbindings (Brussels 1991), no. 19 (illustrated)
Catholic Church. Diocese (Milan). Constitutiones et decreta condita in prouinciali synodo Mediolanensi. Sub ill.mo & r.mod.d. Carolo Borrhomaeo S.R.E. tit. S. Praxedis presbytero cardinali, & S. Sedis Apostolicae per uniuersam Italiam legato de latere archiepiscopo Mediolani. Venice : [Paolo Manuzio], 1566
First edition, in a striking filigree binding that represents Venice's ties to the Near East; the techniques employed in the present design had been practised in Coptic Egypt since the eighth century, or possibly earlier. This type of filigree binding was revived in Italy in the fifteenth century. Anthony Hobson records only eleven Venetian examples from the sixteenth century, including the present lot (Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders, p.150, list G, no.11).
8vo (150 x 102 mm). Roman and italic types. collation: *8 A-O8 P-S8 T4: 156 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Foxing.)
binding: Venetian filigree binding, ca. 1566, red morocco (155 x 110 mm), blind and gilt fillet borders with mitered corners, framing central and corner compartments cut-away and lined with dark green silk adorned with gold-painted gesso filigree, stubs from two pairs of ties, spine with three raised bands and two semi-raised bands, multiple blind fillets outlining spine bands, gilt edges. Housed in green cloth box. (Corners, spine ends, and portion of upper hinge expertly repaired.)
provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1966, lot 98, £32, to Maggs Bros — Michael Wittock (1936-2020), bookplate, his sale, Christie's, London, 7 July 2004, lot 82. acquisition: Purchased at preceding sale via Robin Halwas. references: UCLA 760; Edit16 28264; Renouard 199/2; Anthony Hobson & Paul Culot, Italian and French 16th- century bookbindings (Brussels 1991), no. 19 (illustrated)
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