Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BONIFACE VIII, Pope; et al. Liber sextus decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII. Clementis Papae V. Constitutiones. Extravagantes tum viginti D. Joannis Papae XXII. tum communes [etc.]. Large woodcut of the Pope within historiated border depicting Old and New Testament figures and Church Fathers on *4v. [4] leaves, 870, 348, 364 columns, [10] leaves. Folio, contemporary pigskin over pasteboard stamped in black to panel design with devices of the Bohemian nobleman Peter Wok von Rosenberg (1539-1611) in center of covers, spine darkened, with white ink shelf number, endpapers renewed, contents loose in binding; institutional bookplate. Lyon, 1583

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For a brief account of Rosenberg's library, and its migration and partial dispersal after his death, see Goldschmidt, Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings 262.