Campeggi, De auctoritate et potestate Romani Pontificis, Venice, Aldus, 1555, vellum

CAMPEGGI, TOMMASO. Opus Thomae Campegii Bononiensis, episcopi Feltrensis, de auctoritate, & potestate Romani pontificis, & alia opuscula quae indicantur in sequenti pagina. Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1555

FIRST EDITION of Campeggi's treatise on papal authority, dedicated to the newly elected Paul IV. Campeggi was Bishop of Feltre from 1520 until 1559; in 1545, he was one of three bishops present at the opening of the Council of Trent.

The earliest known owner, Claudio Dattilo, from Cosenza, a graduate of the theological college of the university of Siena (1599), belonged to the priestly congregation of S. Giorgio, Siena (offshoot of the Oratory of S. Filippo Neri), of which he was rector in 1623. He donated a manuscript “Libro d'Ore usato da S. Francesca Romana” to the newly founded Ambrosiana Library in 1623; many of his books are preserved in the Biblioteca diocesana, Siena.

8vo (157 x 100 mm). Roman type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: *¹² A-Z⁸ a-e⁸: 236 leaves (final leaf blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page, woodcut initials.

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum with fore-edge flaps (164 x 113 mm), manuscript title on spine, stubs from two pairs of ties, title lettered along foot of textblock. (Head of spine slightly torn, a few small chips along lower flap.)

Provenance: "Claudii Dactyli", early inscription on inside lower cover — Fiammetta Soave, catalogue "Bibliotheca Aldina" (with small sticker on inside front cover), 1991, item 74. Acquisition: Purchased from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1991. References: UCLA 486; Edit16 8827; Renouard 164/1