Platina, Bartholomaeus Sacchi de

folio (304 x 197mm.), woodcut papal arms on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut printer's device at end of first work and on other title-pages, without blank leaf Qq6, manuscript note in ink about an inscription of Metropolitan Nipho at foot of L5v of last part (in Peiresc's hand), RED MOROCCO GILT FOR NICOLAS-CLAUDE FABRI DE PEIRESC BY SIMON CORBERAN IN AIX-EN-PROVENCE, with his Greek monogram on covers, triple gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, plain edges, Qq5 repaired in margin, slight staining towards end, binding slightly rubbed and stained

Monsieur Capressy, given by him to [Procureur-Général] Guerin, given by him to
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), inscription on title-page and arms on binding, the inscription stating that he gave Guerin an earlier edition in exchange
Cardinal Guillaume Dubois (1656-1723), from his sale, Bibliotheca Duboisiana, The Hague, Swart & du Hondt, 10 September 1725, lot 1211 (with the date erroneously given as 1668)
Josiah Hort (c. 1674-1751), archbishop of Tuam, inscription at head of title-page "Josi Ferns" when bishop of Ferns between 1721 and 1727
his son John Hort (1731-1807), armorial bookplate dated Dublin, 1757
Very Rev. Dr Flanagan, armorial ink stamp on title-page
30 June 1920, pencil note on verso of flyleaf, presumably date of acquisition of Henry J.B. Clements, Killadoon, Ireland, his sale, Sotheby's, 6 July 1966, lot 642, bought by Maggs for £65 (and possibly returned; see lot 86)

VD16 P3264

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This copy also contains three leaves with Muretus's oration on the death of Pius V, who died in 1572, bound after quire Qq.

Peiresc's bindings were some of the earliest to include the date of publication on the spine, usually at the top corner of the spine compartment beneath the title. Corberan, the binder of this volume, was employed at Peiresc's house in Aix from 1625 until Peiresc's death; he produced not just simple bindings like this but also fanfare bindings (see Henry Davis Gift, 129, which is also a volume relating to Panvinio on the popes). The morocco used for his books was sourced by Peiresc from the Levant.