1. Platina (Bartholomaeus Sacchi de) Vitae Pontificum, 135 ff. (of 136, lacking final blank), 52 lines, Roman type, capital spaces, a few capitals supplied in early brown ink, extensive early ink marginalia, repaired tear within text of a2, no loss, e1 large section of lower corner torn away, affecting marginalia verso, a few single wormholes within text, affecting a few letters on many ff., but with no loss of sense, heavier to final sig., edges trimmed, affecting marginalia, occasional marginal staining, heavier at end, handsome contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, lacking clasps, spine replaced in keeping with style, corners skilfully repaired, rubbed and scuffed, [BMC VI, 897; Goff P-770; Hain 13048], folio, Treviso, Joannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1485.
est. £3000 – £4000
Platina's great history of the lives of the Popes; the first systematic papal history. Platina served as the first librarian at the Vatican under its modern founder Sixtus IV.
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