Live auction - Lot 1293
[Adrianus VI - Leuven]
Vita Hadriani Sexti Pontificis Maximi.
Leuven, R. Rescius, November 1536
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
4to: [54] ff. (toned, soiled, some traces of use).
Old vellum, flat spine (sl. stained and warping). Good complete copy.
Rare first biography of the only "Dutch" Pope (and former Leuven theologian) Adrianus VI (1459-1523), compiled by the Leuven humanist theologian Gerhard Moring (Moringus, 1495-1556), later a parish priest in Sint-Truiden.
Ref. NK 1545. - BB IV:408:M-34. - Adams M-1792.
Prov. "J.F. Vandevelde 1792" , Leuven theologian and librarian (1743-1823) (old ownership entry on front flyleaf).
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