Nov 11, 2008 - Sale 2162

Sale 2162 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 960
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHURCH DOCUMENTS.) Bound volume containing over 30 letterpress papal briefs, apostolic letters, and miscellaneous documents, mostly concerning the Dominican order. Folio, old vellum, covers warped, soiled and stained; internal condition varies, later institutional stamp on each document, scattered early marginalia. chiefly Rome, 1567-1751
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complete list available on request. Documents of American interest include: Pius V, Pope. Breve . . . super declaratione Ordinum Mendicantium. Full-page woodcut on title verso showing St. Francis receiving the stigmata. [4] leaves. Rome, 1567. Cf. Alden 567/7 (papal bull of the same year granting special privileges to mendicant orders to facilitate missionary efforts in the New World) Pius V, Pope. Indulgentiae, et amplissimae concessiones perpetuae . . . pro omnibus conventibus constructis, & de novo construendis ordinis S. Dominici, in provinciis Indiarum Occidentalium. Broadside. Rome, 30 October 1571. Grants indulgences and concessions to Dominican institutions in the New World. Not in Alden or Streit-Dindinger Alexander VII, Pope. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Broadside. 30 May 1663. Alden 663/34 ("concerns Dominican abuses in the Indies"); not in Streit-Dindinger Clement X, Pope. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Broadside. 12 February 1668. On the beatification of Rose of Lima (1568-1617), the first New World saint. Not in Alden or Streit-Dindinger Clement X, Pope. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Broadside; horizontal clean tear across center. 15 May 1671. On the canonization of Rose of Lima, and the Dominican Luis Bertrán (1526-81), who became one of the patron saints of Colombia. Not in Alden or Streit-Dindinger Clement X, Pope. Bulla canonizationis S. Ludovici Bertrandi Ordinis Praedicatorum. 16 pages. Rome, 1674. Not in Alden or Streit-Dindinger Innocent XI, Pope. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Broadside. Rome, 10 June 1686. Concerns educational institutions in Lima and Quito. Not in Alden or Streit-Dindinger.