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RIBERA, Franciscus. In Sanctum Iesu Christi Evangelium secundum Johannem Commentarius. Lyons: Jean Cardon & Pierre Cavellat, 1623.
Large 8° (239 x 152mm). Title in red and black with wood-cut vignette, woodcut decorations. (Browning, occasionally heavy.) Contemporary Lyonnese binding: red morocco gilt, covers close-panelled with an outer border composed from a floral roll, gilt fillets and a dentelle roll, an inner panel surrouned by dentelle borders and gilt and dotted lines, lozenge-shaped central panel with an oval core composed of volute tools, stars, fleurons and other small tools, the flat spine divided into five irregularly-sized panels, lettered in one, the others profusely decorated with various small tools, g.e. (small neat repairs to foot of spine). Provenance: Muzio Vitelleschi, General of the Society of Jesus (inscription: "Ex Biblioth.P. Gen.Soc:Jesu"); Library of the Church of S.Pietro, Vincoli (stamp on title); Hans Fürstenberg (booklabel).
DEDICATION COPY, given to the library of the Jesuit General, in a fine early-17th-century Lyonnese binding.
Large 8° (239 x 152mm). Title in red and black with wood-cut vignette, woodcut decorations. (Browning, occasionally heavy.) Contemporary Lyonnese binding: red morocco gilt, covers close-panelled with an outer border composed from a floral roll, gilt fillets and a dentelle roll, an inner panel surrouned by dentelle borders and gilt and dotted lines, lozenge-shaped central panel with an oval core composed of volute tools, stars, fleurons and other small tools, the flat spine divided into five irregularly-sized panels, lettered in one, the others profusely decorated with various small tools, g.e. (small neat repairs to foot of spine). Provenance: Muzio Vitelleschi, General of the Society of Jesus (inscription: "Ex Biblioth.P. Gen.Soc:Jesu"); Library of the Church of S.Pietro, Vincoli (stamp on title); Hans Fürstenberg (booklabel).
DEDICATION COPY, given to the library of the Jesuit General, in a fine early-17th-century Lyonnese binding.