Sanudo, Recens Lutheranarum assertionum oppugnatio, Venice, Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1543, eighteenth-century paper boards

Sanudo, Pietro Aurelio. Soli Deo Honor et Gloria. Recens Lutheranarum assertionum oppugnatio, per magistrum Petrum Aurelium Sanutum Venetum Augustinianum. Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, July 1543

Only edition of a polemical treatise by the Augustinian theologian Sanudo, in which doctrinal controversies are presented in the form of a dialogue between a heretic and a Catholic.

4to (200 x 150 mm). Roman type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z⁴ AA-CC⁴: 104 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device to title- page and verso of last leaf, historiated initials, large capitals in initial spaces, guide letters in initial spaces. (Dampstained throughout, with resulting dimpling.)

binding: Eighteenth-century paper boards (206 x 154 mm), title in ink on spine, red speckled edges. (Worn, spine damaged with some loss, covers soiled.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription "Ex Libris Melvin L. Bronby, Oxford, 1921" on endpaper — Leona Rostenberg, New York. acquisition: Purchased from Leona Rostenberg, New York, 1989. references: UCLA 313; Renouard 127/1; Edit16 26713; USTC 854900