Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Five Broadside and Pamphlet Papal Edicts Related to Books Banned by the Inquisition.
1) Decretum super Revision et Adprobatione Operum Moraliu, Asceticorum, et Dogmaticorum, ac MSS., Rome: apud Lazzarinum, 1803, disbound quarto-format pamphlet, deckle edges.

2) An untitled broadside regarding the censoring books in Ferrara; folio format, Ferrara: Francesco di Rossiadi, 1562.

3) Editto dell'Indice Nuovo de' Libri Prohibiti per la Citta, et Diocese di Ceneda, Trevigi: Evangelista Dehuchino, 1597.

4) Editto del Maestro del Sacro Palazzo, broadside with a list of books and authors in two columns, Rome: Camera, 1609.

5) Gratie et Editti Generali per il S. Ufficio dell'Inquisitione nella Citta di Piacenza, et sua Diocesi et Altri Luoghi Annesi, Piacenza: Anteo Conti, 1588.

[Together with] A rough sheet used to wrap paper made by a Milan papermaker featuring a large woodcut of a monk praying to the cross, surrounded by the text, "In Milano per Pietro Pen V. Cartaro in Carobio," slightly discolored, with an inscription dated 1617; 10 1/2 x 7 in.