Vittori, De sacramento confessionis, Rome, Paolo Manuzio, 1566, old vellum

Vittori, Mariano. De sacramento confessionis, seu paenitentiae, historia, ex veteribus sanctis patribus collecta, per quam contra haereticos lutheranos copiose ostenditur, sacramentalem confessionem ab ipso Christo institutam esse, et in ecclesiae catholicae usu usque ad nostra tempora semper semper obseruatam. De antiquis paenitentiis utilis libellus, e veteribus sanctis patribus accurate contextus. Mariano Victorio Reatino auctore. Rome: Paolo Manuzio, 1566

8vo (159 x 103 mm). Roman and italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A⁴ B-Q⁸: 124 leaves. Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Small wormhole to blank margin of title-page, intermittent dampstaining and soiling, corners a bit rumpled.)

binding: Old vellum to style (163 x 113 mm), manuscript shelfmark to spine, plain edges, new endpapers. (Wormhole to rear pastedown.)

provenance: Unidentified owner, deleted inscription on title-page. acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1984. references: UCLA 775; Renouard 200/4; Edit16 27825; USTC 863718; Barberi pp. 148-149