Malta.- Binding.- Sovereign Military Order of Malta.- Gli Statuti della Sacra Religione di S. Gio: Gierosolomitano. Tradotti di Latino in Volgare di Iacomo Bosio Agente della medesima Religione nella Corte di Roma, 2 parts in 1, collation: Collation: *6, **4, A-Z4, Aa-Nn4, a-g4, h6; A-P4, titles with woodcut arms of Cardinal Hugues Loubens de Verdalle, Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, Nn4 and h6 blank, some staining and spotting, handsome contemporary Roman brown morocco over pasteboards by Francesco Soresini's workshop, upper cover with painted arms of the Grand Master Hugues Loubens de Verdalle in a gilt medallion surmounted by cardinal's hat, below which the inscription in gilt 'f. vgo de lovbenx verdala car: gran maestro', lower cover with painted arms of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in gilt oval frame, below which the inscription 'del caval. f. fran. hier. bertio' in gilt (Francesco Girolamo Berti), both covers with gilt and blind-stamped filet borders, the gilt in-filled with frieze all'antica and small floral tools, spine in compartments, all but one with central floral tool, the other with morocco title label, joints starting, but holding firm, some chipping of leather, corners worn, rubbed, g.e., small 4to (text block 247 x 170mm.; binding 255 x 189mm.), Rome, Giacomo Tornieri and Giacomo Ruffinello, 1589. ⁂ The rarest issue of the Italian translation of the Statuta of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, first printed in Latin in 1589, here in a handsome binding for the dedicatee and patron of the edition Cardinal Hugues Loubens de Verdalle, Grand Master of the Order between 1581 and 1595. The binding was executed by the leading workshop of Francesco Soresini, who was appointed Papal binder on the death of Niccolò Franzese in 1575. Provenance: Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Hugues Loubens de Verdalle (1531-1595; arms); given by him as a gift to Francesco Girolamo Berti (gilt inscription on the lower cover); and then to his brother Fabrizio Berti (ink ownership inscription on the first title 'Di Fra Fabritio Bertio Baglio di Pavia 1595'). Literature: F. de Hellwald, Bibliographie méthodique de l'Ordre Souverain de St. Jean de Jérusalem, Rome 1885, p. 28; G. Vianini Tolomei, Legatura Romana Barocca 1565-1700, Rome 1991, pl. vii (for the tools used here).
Malta.- Binding.- Sovereign Military Order of Malta.- Gli Statuti della Sacra Religione di S. Gio: Gierosolomitano. Tradotti di Latino in Volgare di Iacomo Bosio Agente della medesima Religione nella Corte di Roma, 2 parts in 1, collation: Collation: *6, **4, A-Z4, Aa-Nn4, a-g4, h6; A-P4, titles with woodcut arms of Cardinal Hugues Loubens de Verdalle, Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, Nn4 and h6 blank, some staining and spotting, handsome contemporary Roman brown morocco over pasteboards by Francesco Soresini's workshop, upper cover with painted arms of the Grand Master Hugues Loubens de Verdalle in a gilt medallion surmounted by cardinal's hat, below which the inscription in gilt 'f. vgo de lovbenx verdala car: gran maestro', lower cover with painted arms of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in gilt oval frame, below which the inscription 'del caval. f. fran. hier. bertio' in gilt (Francesco Girolamo Berti), both covers with gilt and blind-stamped filet borders, the gilt in-filled with frieze all'antica and small floral tools, spine in compartments, all but one with central floral tool, the other with morocco title label, joints starting, but holding firm, some chipping of leather, corners worn, rubbed, g.e., small 4to (text block 247 x 170mm.; binding 255 x 189mm.), Rome, Giacomo Tornieri and Giacomo Ruffinello, 1589. ⁂ The rarest issue of the Italian translation of the Statuta of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, first printed in Latin in 1589, here in a handsome binding for the dedicatee and patron of the edition Cardinal Hugues Loubens de Verdalle, Grand Master of the Order between 1581 and 1595. The binding was executed by the leading workshop of Francesco Soresini, who was appointed Papal binder on the death of Niccolò Franzese in 1575. Provenance: Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Hugues Loubens de Verdalle (1531-1595; arms); given by him as a gift to Francesco Girolamo Berti (gilt inscription on the lower cover); and then to his brother Fabrizio Berti (ink ownership inscription on the first title 'Di Fra Fabritio Bertio Baglio di Pavia 1595'). Literature: F. de Hellwald, Bibliographie méthodique de l'Ordre Souverain de St. Jean de Jérusalem, Rome 1885, p. 28; G. Vianini Tolomei, Legatura Romana Barocca 1565-1700, Rome 1991, pl. vii (for the tools used here).
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