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PAU (JERONI) or HIERONYMUS PAULUS. Proui[n]ciale omnium ecclesiarum cathedraliu[m] universi orbis, Paris, Jean Petit, 7 May 1518 image 1
PAU (JERONI) or HIERONYMUS PAULUS. Proui[n]ciale omnium ecclesiarum cathedraliu[m] universi orbis, Paris, Jean Petit, 7 May 1518 image 2
PAU (JERONI) or HIERONYMUS PAULUS. Proui[n]ciale omnium ecclesiarum cathedraliu[m] universi orbis, Paris, Jean Petit, 7 May 1518 image 3
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PAU (JERONI) or HIERONYMUS PAULUS
Proui[n]ciale omnium ecclesiarum cathedraliu[m] universi orbis, Paris, Jean Petit, 7 May 1518

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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[PAU (JERONI) or HIERONYMUS PAULUS]

Provi[n]ciale omnium ecclesiarum cathedraliu[m] universi orbis, large woodcut device on title, pagination rubricated in alternate red and blue, title re-margined at gutter margin and old stamp partially erased from lower corner, contemporary blindstamped calf by Jan Ryckhaert of Gent [cf. Goldschmidt 145], sides decorated in a diaper pattern with alternating tools of a pilgrim and a stylised floral arrangement, 4 fleur-de-lys tools at upper and lower border, small bee tool repeated 4 times on each vertical border, old vellum endpapers, annotations in 2 sixteenth century hands, mostly to opening 10 leaves and final leaf and blank, rebacked with corners neatly repaired, small 4to (195 x 130mm.), Paris, Jean Petit, 7 May 1518

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Attractively bound copy of a scarce early edition of list of dioceses and archdioceses of the Church based on records kept by the Papal administration, compiled by the Catalan Hieronymus Paulus, a Vatican librarian.

Provenance: Sixteenth century marginalia and notes in two hands, including a comment on the organisation of the Church in Sardinia, and a full-page listing of exchange rates of 32 European countries; Library of the Brigittine monastery, Cologne, seventeenth century inscription on title; Christie's South Kensington, 29 November 2006, lot 214.

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