Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1672.) Wadingo, Lucas [Luke Wadding.] Compendio de la vida, y muerte de la bienaventurada Rosa de Viterbo. Illustrations. [31] pages. 8vo, contemporary vellum, moderate wear; minor foxing and wear, unevenly trimmed; convent ownership inscription on title page and verso. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1672
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A life of Saint Rose of Viterbo (1233-1251), a reclusive Italian mystic, written by the Irish Franciscan friar Luke Wadding (1588-1657) and translated into Spanish. The source text was likely taken from Wadding's 8-volume Annales Minorum.
We don't know the original collation of this volume, but it is apparently complete. It includes a title page, 3 leaves of preliminaries, a woodcut portrait facing the last preliminary page, another illustration on verso with a portrait of San Clara pasted down over it, and 12 unnumbered text leaves of the "Vida" with catchwords all matching up, with another portrait of San Diego pasted down on verso of the final text page. Decorative graphics are also pasted down on both pastedowns. We trace no other examples at auction, in Medina's Mexican Imprints, in Palau, or in OCLC. Listed in Beristain, Biblioteca hispano americana setentrional, 8:513.