May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
CRUSADE INDULGENCE IN CATALAN JULIUS II, Pope. Plenaria indulgencia e remissio de tots los peccats aquella que los sants papes donan a aquells qui van en aiuda dela terra santa e segons se guanya en roma lany quey ha iubileu. Bifolium with 2 pages of text printed on the inner forme only, woodcut seal and facsimile signature of the Archbishop of Majorca in lower margin of both pages. Full sheet measuring approximately 430x305 mm, with irregular and frayed edges; paper toned and soiled, with some light marginal dampstains, minor worming in first leaf, paper seal removed from both leaves with resulting hole in lower outer corner of the second. [Toledo: Juan Varela for Monastery of San Pedro Mártir, circa 1509-10]

Additional Details

Plenary indulgence (remitting the entire temporal punishment for sin) for those taking part in a proposed war against the Turks, from the press of the official printer of indulgences for the Monastery of San Pedro Mártir, whose concession ran from 1509 to 1515. This copy is in the setting with the date, month, and place left blank in line 38 on verso of first leaf. Norton (1978) 1075B; see also Norton (1966), pages 15-19.