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TUFO, Giovanni Battista del, Bishop of Acerra. Historia della religione de' Padri Cherici regolari. Rome: Guglielmo Facciotto and Stefano Paolini, 1609.
2o (351 x 240 mm). Engraved architectural title-page incorporating portraits of Pope Paul IV, Cardinal Cajetan, D. Bonifacius, and D. Paulus, text within rule borders, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Without a1 blank [a3-a4 signed "a2-a3"], occasional foxing.) CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BINDING FOR POPE PAUL V, dark maroon morocco over pasteboard, profusely gilt, covers with broad outer border of linked circles and ovals built up from gouges, containing the heraldic bearings of the Borghese, a winged dragon and a spread eagle, both in two sizes of tools, the eagles surmounted by separate crown tools, central panel tooled to a fanfare design with strapwork of double gilt fillets, the interstices decorated with foliate spirals, sprays, fleurs-de-lis and various flower tools, the central oval containing the arms of Paul V surrounded by spirals and arabesque tools within a semis of dots (both covers with traces of the finisher's blind ruling for transferring the design), flat spine similarly decorated with the eagle and dragon tools, board edges with gold rules and hatching, yellow endbands, gilt and gauffred edges (lacking 4 pairs of ties, possibly some restoration to joints, a very few small cracks, one small gouge to spine); boards slipcase.
Provenance: Camilio Borghese (1552-1621), as Pope Paul V (1605-1621) (binding); 17th-century woodcut madonna and child bookplate; 19th-century Borghese bookplate.
A FINE BAROQUE PAPAL BINDING, executed between 1605 and 1615, from an unidentified Roman atelier, probably one or the other of two unnamed binderies cited by Mirjam Foot ("The Borghese bindery, the Rospigliosi bindery and their patrons", Henry Davis Gift I, p. 326) which were patronized by both Paul V Borghese and his adopted nephew Scipio Cafarelli-Borghese.
A copy of the Plantin 1614 Breviarium Romanum in a binding with a closely similar design is reproduced in Miner, Baltimore, 438, pl. LXX. Attributed by Mirjam Foot to the Rospigliosi bindery (op. cit, p. 331, note 2), the tools of that binding, in spite of the nearly identical decor, do not match those on the present binding, implying either a close corroboration between various Roman shops at this period, who may have shared the same finishers, or the sharing or imitation of each other's designs.
Del Tufo published a supplement to his history of the regular clergy in 1616, which is usually found bound with the first volume. Its absence from the present copy points to the likelihood that the binding was executed before its publication.
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Provenance: Camilio Borghese (1552-1621), as Pope Paul V (1605-1621) (binding); 17th-century woodcut madonna and child bookplate; 19th-century Borghese bookplate.
A FINE BAROQUE PAPAL BINDING, executed between 1605 and 1615, from an unidentified Roman atelier, probably one or the other of two unnamed binderies cited by Mirjam Foot ("The Borghese bindery, the Rospigliosi bindery and their patrons", Henry Davis Gift I, p. 326) which were patronized by both Paul V Borghese and his adopted nephew Scipio Cafarelli-Borghese.
A copy of the Plantin 1614 Breviarium Romanum in a binding with a closely similar design is reproduced in Miner, Baltimore, 438, pl. LXX. Attributed by Mirjam Foot to the Rospigliosi bindery (op. cit, p. 331, note 2), the tools of that binding, in spite of the nearly identical decor, do not match those on the present binding, implying either a close corroboration between various Roman shops at this period, who may have shared the same finishers, or the sharing or imitation of each other's designs.
Del Tufo published a supplement to his history of the regular clergy in 1616, which is usually found bound with the first volume. Its absence from the present copy points to the likelihood that the binding was executed before its publication.