Details
JULIUS II (1453-1513, Pope from 1503). [Indulgence for those in possession of wrongly acquired property not restorable to its owner, in favour of the crusade], in Catalan. [Toledo: Juan Varela, ca. 1509-10].
Two different settings of the same indulgence printed on a two-pull press. Chancery full-sheet broadside (282 x 400mm), intended for division in half. Incipit: Per que la satisfacio es principal part dela penitencia: y ab ella se aseguren les conciencies y salven les animes. Southwestern French paper, hand/star watermark in second chain-space (type of Briquet 11196-11202). Gothic type 2:155 (headings) and 14:64 (text). 52 lines. Woodcut white-on-black devices of the Holy Monogram, woodcut signatures of Diego Ribera, Bishop of Majorca 1508-12, wafer seals.
The setting on the left half-sheet is known in two copies (Norton 1074), the setting on the right half-sheet is unrecorded. FINE CONDITION.
Two different settings of the same indulgence printed on a two-pull press. Chancery full-sheet broadside (282 x 400mm), intended for division in half. Incipit: Per que la satisfacio es principal part dela penitencia: y ab ella se aseguren les conciencies y salven les animes. Southwestern French paper, hand/star watermark in second chain-space (type of Briquet 11196-11202). Gothic type 2:155 (headings) and 14:64 (text). 52 lines. Woodcut white-on-black devices of the Holy Monogram, woodcut signatures of Diego Ribera, Bishop of Majorca 1508-12, wafer seals.
The setting on the left half-sheet is known in two copies (Norton 1074), the setting on the right half-sheet is unrecorded. FINE CONDITION.