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1566, Rome
CATECHISM, Council of Trent -- Catechismus, Ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad Parochos, Pii Quinti Pont. Max. iussu editus. Super-chancery 2° (324 x 215mm). Collation: A. (1r title, large architectural, armorial and allegorical woodcut of Manuzio's Roman device incorporating a small dolphin-and-anchor, imprint In aedibus Populi Romani apud Paulum Manutium, 2r.v Papal privilege); B-Z AA-HH6 (text); II6 (index). 188 leaves. Roman type 118mm (text), 67mm (index), italic 79mm (side-notes). 39 lines and headline. Woodcut floral initials. (Several sheets browned.)
BINDING: contemporary North-Italian olive goatskin gilt, various fleuron tools in centre and at corners, spine tooled in blind, gilt edges, original endpapers, some repair at extremities, colour faded in places.) PROVENANCE: Count Angelo D'Elci, book collector (his matchless Aldines and editiones principes given in 1841 to the Bibl. Med.-Laurenziana, Florence), bought the book from a Viennese bookseller for six gold shillings and a small gift, exchanged for a larger copy with; Gaetano Betoldi, priest at Como, who gave it to; Giambattista Baserga, Barnabite friar and vicar of St. Ursula, gift to; Count Giambattista Giovio 1800, whose son Benedetto Francesco Flaminio Giovio received his first Latin lessons from Baserga (two Latin inscriptions, the first Baserga's, the second Giovio's; more than two pages of notes by Baserga on the authors of this Roman catechism, loosely inserted notes in a different hand on 18th-century paper).
FIRST EDITION of the Roman Catholic Catechism as authorised by the Council of Trent. Paolo Manuzio's Press was brought to Rome under papal auspices in 1562, where it did some of its finest typographical work, leaving his son, Aldo the younger, in charge of the Venetian operations. FINE COPY, with a distinguished provenance. Adams C-1056; Murphy 552; R 200:5
CATECHISM, Council of Trent -- Catechismus, Ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini, ad Parochos, Pii Quinti Pont. Max. iussu editus. Super-chancery 2° (324 x 215mm). Collation: A. (1r title, large architectural, armorial and allegorical woodcut of Manuzio's Roman device incorporating a small dolphin-and-anchor, imprint In aedibus Populi Romani apud Paulum Manutium, 2r.v Papal privilege); B-Z AA-HH6 (text); II6 (index). 188 leaves. Roman type 118mm (text), 67mm (index), italic 79mm (side-notes). 39 lines and headline. Woodcut floral initials. (Several sheets browned.)
BINDING: contemporary North-Italian olive goatskin gilt, various fleuron tools in centre and at corners, spine tooled in blind, gilt edges, original endpapers, some repair at extremities, colour faded in places.) PROVENANCE: Count Angelo D'Elci, book collector (his matchless Aldines and editiones principes given in 1841 to the Bibl. Med.-Laurenziana, Florence), bought the book from a Viennese bookseller for six gold shillings and a small gift, exchanged for a larger copy with; Gaetano Betoldi, priest at Como, who gave it to; Giambattista Baserga, Barnabite friar and vicar of St. Ursula, gift to; Count Giambattista Giovio 1800, whose son Benedetto Francesco Flaminio Giovio received his first Latin lessons from Baserga (two Latin inscriptions, the first Baserga's, the second Giovio's; more than two pages of notes by Baserga on the authors of this Roman catechism, loosely inserted notes in a different hand on 18th-century paper).
FIRST EDITION of the Roman Catholic Catechism as authorised by the Council of Trent. Paolo Manuzio's Press was brought to Rome under papal auspices in 1562, where it did some of its finest typographical work, leaving his son, Aldo the younger, in charge of the Venetian operations. FINE COPY, with a distinguished provenance. Adams C-1056; Murphy 552; R 200:5