May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Italian Manuscript on Paper, 1748.

Folio format manuscript on laid paper, with added engraved illustration depicting the three Marys mourning Christ by de Horatio dated 1768 bound before the text, written in brown ink throughout on 269 numbered leaves, written by the scribe Domenico Capece Zurolo in June 1748, likely theological in nature, text written in one column only, approximately eighteen lines per page, in a consistent hand, some passages crossed out, contents generally good; bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, some worming, with the book ticket of John Howell of San Francisco pasted inside the back board, 11 x 7 1/2 in.