Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Pansa, Della libraria vaticana, Rome, 1590, modern blue three-quarter morocco over marbled boards

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PANSA, MUTIO. Della libraria vaticana ragionamenti di Mutio Pansa divisi in quattro parti. Rome: Giacomo Ruffinelli for Giovanni Martinelli, 1590


FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE THEN-NEWLY ERECTED VATICAN LIBRARY, built in 1588, illustrating the ambitious iconographic program that still adorns its rooms. Alongside descriptions of frescoes and statues in their order of appearance, Mutio Pansa (1565-1628) writes on the origins of the book and paper, the ecumenical councils and famous libraries of the past, as well as the ancient alphabets and their mythical inventors.

4to (220 x 158 mm). collation: *4 A-2Y4: 184 leaves. Title-page with woodcut printer's device of a phoenix, repeated on recto of final leaf, woodcut initials and printer's ornaments. (Some marginal dampstaining.)


binding: Modern dark blue three-quarter morocco over marbled boards (227 x 173 mm), spine with five false bands, red morocco label to second compartment, lettered in gilt.


provenance: "Dom[inico] R[obert]o de Mello", early modern ownership inscription on title-page—"J.B.L.", early modern ownership inscription on title-page. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from E.P. Goldschmidt. references: USTC 846510; Edit16 CNCE 29725

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