CORPUS IURIS CANONICI]. Augustinus CARAVITA. Additiones super Decreto. - GRATIAN. Decretum Gratiani , part II (with Canones poenitentiales, Canones Sanctorum Apostolorum, Flores totius Decreti and Registrum). - F. MARTINUS. Margarita Decreti . Venice: Luc'Antonio Giunta II, 1600; [1605]. 4° (240 x 175mm). Large woodcut printer's mark on title. (Light marginal dampstaining throughout much of text, occasional browning.) CONTEMPORARY ROMAN RED MOROCCO BY SORESINI, ELABORATELY GILT, WITH ARMS OF CARDINAL BORGHESE at centre surmounted by a cardinal's hat and surrounded by arabesque tools, putti, stars, spirals, etc., and with Borghese winged dragon and spread eagle and Caffarelli lion interspersed around sides, gilt spine with dragons, lion, eagle, salamanders and swans (leather at head and foot of spine renewed, minor losses in two places on front joint), evidence of fore-edge ties, gilt and gauffered edges. Bound by the workshop of the Soresini. In a lined cloth case. Provenance : Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (1576-1633). One volume of a set of the Corpus Juris Canonici bound for Cardinal Borghese. On his creation as cardinal by his uncle Pope Paul V Borghese (1605-1621), Scipione Caffarelli adopted the Borghese name and arms. The present binding depicts the Borghese arms quartered with the Caffarelli lion, here unusually surmounted by a star. It is likely that this volume represents one of the earliest bound for Scipione as cardinal, possibly in celebration of his cardinalate. A large part of the magnificent collections formed by him survives at the Villa Borghese in Rome. On the Soresini workshop (the foremost of its time in Rome) and its tools, see Dr. Vianini Tolomei's study in Legatura Romana Barocca , Rome 1991, 31ff. Camerini, in Annali dei Giunti (II,2, Florence 1963), records a 1605 edition of the Decretum and Margarita , printed by the successors of Luc'Antonio II, with which this edition seems identical (despite the lack of title-page). Here, however, Caravita's Additiones , with a title-page dated 1600 (not recorded in Camerini, who only lists a folio edition of 1605) are substituted for the preliminaries cited by Camerini, while the first part of the Decretum was presumably bound in another volume of the Borghese set.
CORPUS IURIS CANONICI]. Augustinus CARAVITA. Additiones super Decreto. - GRATIAN. Decretum Gratiani , part II (with Canones poenitentiales, Canones Sanctorum Apostolorum, Flores totius Decreti and Registrum). - F. MARTINUS. Margarita Decreti . Venice: Luc'Antonio Giunta II, 1600; [1605]. 4° (240 x 175mm). Large woodcut printer's mark on title. (Light marginal dampstaining throughout much of text, occasional browning.) CONTEMPORARY ROMAN RED MOROCCO BY SORESINI, ELABORATELY GILT, WITH ARMS OF CARDINAL BORGHESE at centre surmounted by a cardinal's hat and surrounded by arabesque tools, putti, stars, spirals, etc., and with Borghese winged dragon and spread eagle and Caffarelli lion interspersed around sides, gilt spine with dragons, lion, eagle, salamanders and swans (leather at head and foot of spine renewed, minor losses in two places on front joint), evidence of fore-edge ties, gilt and gauffered edges. Bound by the workshop of the Soresini. In a lined cloth case. Provenance : Cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli (1576-1633). One volume of a set of the Corpus Juris Canonici bound for Cardinal Borghese. On his creation as cardinal by his uncle Pope Paul V Borghese (1605-1621), Scipione Caffarelli adopted the Borghese name and arms. The present binding depicts the Borghese arms quartered with the Caffarelli lion, here unusually surmounted by a star. It is likely that this volume represents one of the earliest bound for Scipione as cardinal, possibly in celebration of his cardinalate. A large part of the magnificent collections formed by him survives at the Villa Borghese in Rome. On the Soresini workshop (the foremost of its time in Rome) and its tools, see Dr. Vianini Tolomei's study in Legatura Romana Barocca , Rome 1991, 31ff. Camerini, in Annali dei Giunti (II,2, Florence 1963), records a 1605 edition of the Decretum and Margarita , printed by the successors of Luc'Antonio II, with which this edition seems identical (despite the lack of title-page). Here, however, Caravita's Additiones , with a title-page dated 1600 (not recorded in Camerini, who only lists a folio edition of 1605) are substituted for the preliminaries cited by Camerini, while the first part of the Decretum was presumably bound in another volume of the Borghese set.
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