Live auction - Lot 730
[Church history]
Codex donationum piarum, in quo testamenta, codicilli, litterae fundationum, donationum [...] à pontificibus, imperatoribus, regibus, ducibus ac comitibus, in favorem ecclesiarum praesertim Belgicarum [...].
Brussels, J. van Meerbeeck, 1624
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Lot description
4to: [16]-335-[= 372]-3 pp. (sm. stains on ff. §4 and 2 §1, occ. light marg. dampstaining in upper edge throughout and spotting, occ. annot. in an old hand).
Contemp. overl. vellum, ink-titled flat spine (sl. soiled).
First edition of this important collection of old charters, statutes, etc. referring to gifts to the Church (cathedrals, abbeys and convents) in i.a. Tournai, Ghent, Maastricht, Harelbeke, St. Truiden, Huy, Affligem, Dendermonde, Aalst, Antwerp, Vlierbeek, Grimbergen, Brussels, Drongen, Louvain,... Indispensable for the early ecclesiastical history of the Low Countries and France: many documents have perished since.
Ref. STCV.
Prov. P.P.C. Lammens, Ghent bibliophile (1762-1836) (collector’s ticket).