?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Six Papal Decretals Related to Books and Censorship: 1578-1729.
Including:
1) Escomunica per chi Havesse Robbe, o Scritture o Livelli o qual'si Voglia Altra Cosa Pertinente all Compagnia della Croce de Santo Pietro Martire de Milano, [Milan, 1578], large broadside with three woodcuts, deckle edges, old folds, an order of excommunication by master inquisitor Giovanni Battista di Milano; 17 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.
2) Editto per Mantenere et Augumentare la Purita di Santa Fede nella Citta & Diocesi di Piacenza, Piacenza: Gio. Bazachi, 1592, large broadside with woodcut arms, text by Annibal Mutius, ostensibly to support the purity of the faith of the city, but listing threats to excommunication, denunciation, and other penalties for heresy, calling out printers and booksellers in particular, old folds, extensive contemporary annotations dated 1593 at top and bottom, deckle edges, 17 x 12 in.
3) Decretum Officii Sanctissimae Inquisitionis Venetiarum, circa Correctores Librorum Imprimendorum, Venice, 1587, large broadside with woodcut arms at the top, two decrees issued by Vincentius Terlatus of the Holy Inquisition, cracking down on printers and indicating that all published works must be "corrected" by the church; deckle edges, a few holes, stains, and tears, old folds, 16 3/4 x 12 1/8 in.
4) Carolus [...] Essendosi per parte de Governatori della Venerabile Chiesa e Spedale di S. Angelo a Nido, amministratori della Biblioteca Brancaccio, Naples: Per Secondino Porsile Regio Stampatore, 1724, folio broadside with large woodcut arms of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, regarding the printing of books and the libraries mentioned above, staining, frayed edges, some contemporary annotations, old folds, 14 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
5) Carolus [...] Essendosi da Nostri Ill. Predecessori con varie Prammatiche, Napels: Per Secondino Porsile Regio Stampatore, 1725, folio broadside with woodcut arms, regulating the publication of books, stains, old folds and annotations, 14 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
6) Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Carolus Divina Favente Clementia Romanor. Imper. Semper Augustus et Hispaniarum Rex, Naples: Porfile, 1729, folio format bifolum; condemning Giuseppe Sanfelice's book, Riflessioni morali e teologiche sopra l'istoria civile del regno di Napoli, published in 1728 and critical of the Jesuit order; some staining, old folds, 12 1/8 x 8 in. (6)
