Catechismus, Ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini, Ad Parochos.
Rome, Paolo Manuzio 1566.
Folio. [iv], 359, [1 blank], [11]p. Nine-line floriated white-line initial on a criblé ground, initial guide letters, a woodcut Aldine device on title.
Contemporary vellum over flexible paper boards (soiled), manuscript spine title, evidence of four pigskin ties.
First Edition of the Tridentine catechism, one of two issues (priority unresolved). this justly handsome book is the bedrock of roman catholic faith instruction. Five popes oversaw its extended and complex creation.
Paolo Manuzio’s papal privilege expressly prohibiting domestic and international piracy is backed by the threat of excommunication for any infringement. However, by the end of 1568, it had been printed a dozen times in four countries. A few quires on poorer paper, pale stains in half the lower margins, a few outer margins uncut, a Macerata cleric’s partly canceled ownership inscription dated 1626, stamps of the church of San Paolo (Macerata; deconsecrated).
¶Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books 504; Bellinger, Bibliographie des Catechismus Romanus 1 & Abb. 1; Renouard, Annales…des Alde 200,5; EDIT16 CNCE 12057 var. B; Ferraglio, Il Concilio di Trento e l’editoria del sec. XVI 53; Barberi, Paolo Manuzio e la stamperia del Popolo Romano 149-51.
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