Pasquali, Censura animi ingrati lucubratio Caroli Paschalii, Paris, Robert Colombel, 1601, contemporary limp vellum

Pasquali, Carlo. Censura animi ingrati lucubratio Caroli Paschalii regij in sacro Consistorio conciliarij … Eiusdem De optimo genere elocutionis scriptio antehac edita, nunc emendatior. Paris: Robert Colombel, 1601

The last publication that can claim to belong to the Aldine Press.

8vo (175 x 112 mm). Italic and Roman type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: +⁸ A-T⁸ (+1 and T8 used as pastedowns): 160 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and final verso, woodcut headpieces and initials, margins ruled in red. (Staining to upper margin, occasional browning and spotting.)

binding: Contemporary limp vellum (180 x 117 mm), paper pastedowns from a contemporary French manuscript. (Scattered staining, lower corner of upper cover damaged.)

provenance: Initials "A.R." below Aldine device on title, with motto "Satis morituro", probably Antoine Rambaud de Furmeyer (1521-1566) (Chassant & Tausin, Dictionnaire des devises, II, p. 459) — E.K. Schreiber, New York. acquisition: Purchased from E.K. Schreiber, New York, 1986. references: Renouard 300/10; USTC 6016776