Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Picó, [Prima pars trilogii de ordinaria conversione peccatoris], Zaragoza, 1549, contemporary Parisian tan calf gilt

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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PICÓ, DOMINGO DEL. [Prima pars trilogii de ordinaria conversione peccatoris recedentis a Deo patre in parabola Lucae quintodecimo a salvatore proposita]. Zaragoza: Bartolomé de Nájera, 1549

A theological work by Domingo del Picó, preacher to Charles V, in A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN CALF BINDING. This volume was at one time in the collection of Charles Schefer (1820-1898), a noted French diplomat, scholar, and collector, best known for his collection of Islamic manuscripts.

Folio (302 x 205 mm). Text in two columns, roman type, 49 lines plus headline. collation: A2-8 B¹⁰ a-k⁸ l1 l3-8 m-q⁸ r⁶: 150 leaves (only, of 152; lacking title-page and l2). Woodcut initials, large woodcut device to recto of final leaf. (Lacking title-page and l2, A2 torn and repaired with substantial portion of text lost, browning.)

binding: Contemporary Parisian tan calf over pasteboards (310 x 210 mm), richly gilt, series of concentric rectangular frames, fleuron at outer angles, frame of repeated leafy tool within 2 open frames formed by double fillets, in centre interlaced strapwork and rectangle filled with and surrounded by a variety of open leaf tools and tendrils as well as solid tools, spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, rosette in compartments, edges gilt and gauffered to a diaper pattern with small circles in interstices. (Joints starting.)

provenance: Charles-Henri-Auguste Schéfer (1820-1898), bookplate, sale, Paris, 8 May 1899, lot 24—Henri Béraldi (1849-1939), bookplate, sale, Paris, 28 June 1934, lot 27, to Hans Werner Taeuber Antiquariat, Munich—Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, Catalogue 44 (1950), item 265. acquisition: Purchased in 2005 from Librairie Sourget, Chartres. references: USTC 341073; Juan M. Sánchez, Bibliografia Aragonesa del siglo XVI (Madrid 1913), no. 296

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