Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 60

Price Realized: $ 18,000
?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 and paper seal in lower margin of both pages. Full sheet measuring approximately 410x285 mm; 2 wormholes in first leaf, one entering a few words, conspicuous hole in lower inner corner of second leaf slightly affecting a few letters of text and woodcut seal. [Toledo: Juan Varela for Monastery of San Pedro Mártir, circa 1509-10]
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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.