Dominicans, Tabula super privilegia Papalia; Regula beati Augustini, Venice, 1506-1507, contemporary morocco

Dominican Order

Two works in one volume, 1506-1507, in a contemporary morocco binding, from the library of San Marco in Florence, comprising:

In hoc libello continentur infrascripta. Tabula super privilegia papalia Ordini fratrum predicatorum concessa. Privilegia maiora et principaliora eiusdem ordinis... [edited by Alberto da Castello]. (Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 15 October 1506), woodcut armorial on title-page, woodcut printer's device at end

In hoc volumine continentur infrascripta. Regula beati Augustini episcopi. Constitutiones fratrum Ordinis predicatorum: cum suis declarationibus insertis: editis per... Vincentium de Castronovo. (Venice: Lazzaro Soardi, 2 October 1507), woodcut of St Dominic on title-page, full-page woodcut opposite start of text, woodcut printer's device at end

2 works in one volume, 8vo (156 x 105mm.), contemporary blind-tooled morocco over thin wooden boards, binding repaired with new endleaves, lacking two pairs of ties

FROM THE LIBRARY OF SAN MARCO IN FLORENCE. These two works containing the constitutions of the Dominican Order were edited by Alberto da Castello, a Dominican priest who worked for the Giunta and other printshops in Venice, and dedicated to Tommaso da Vio Caietano, the vicar general of the Dominicans.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 17455 & 17458

PROVENANCE:

Dominican convent of San Marco, Florence, early inscription at head of first title-page, and a later inscription also from San Marco, from the bequest of Fr. Niccolò Biliotti (plausibly the Niccolò Biliotti who was Prior in 1530-1532)