Council of Trent, Canones et decreta, Rome, 1564, 4to, later half vellum, Trivulzio copy

Council of Trent. Canones, et decreta sacrosancti oecumenici et generalis Concilii Tridentini sub Paulo III, Iulio III, Pio III pontificibus max. Rome: Paolo Manuzio, 1564

First quarto edition, with text based on the first folio edition.

4to (175 x 128 mm). Interleaved throughout (presumably circa 1850 at the time of binding). Italic type, 32 lines. collation: A- Z⁴ AA-MM⁴ NN²: 284 leaves. (Title somewhat soiled, and with repaired cuts on either side of printer’s device [presumably from removal of ownership inscription], intermittent mostly marginal dampstaining, one leaf with closed tear.)

binding: Nineteenth-century English half vellum (186 x 142 mm), marbled boards, two metal clasps and catches, edges stained red, by Wright & Bailey of Cheltenham (active ca. 1849-1850). (Marbled boards with light wear, vellum slightly soiled.)

provenance: Georgius Trivultius (inscription on title-page verso, many leaves with brief marginal notations in the same neat hand of the inscription) — one interleaved page with an English translation of facing text done in an exceedingly neat 19^th-century hand — Hartung & Hartung, Munich, 13-15 May 2003, lot 184. acquisition: Purchased from Phillip J. Pirages, McMinnville, OR, 2003. references: UCLA 721; Edit16 12985; Renouard 190/4