Vitae et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et ... cardinalium ab initio nascentis ecclesiae, vsque ad Vrbanum VIII. ... Auctoribus M. Alphonso Ciaconio ... Francisco Cabrera ... & Andrea Victorello ... Iconibus ... adiunctis. Alia plura Victorellus, et Ferdinandus Vghellus ... ex mss. praesertim monumentis addiderunt. Hieronymus Aleander ... & alij Ciaconianum opus recensuerunt.
Alfonso Chacón (1540-1599)
Category
Books
Date
1630
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223214
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ([14] p., 1034[i.e. 1038] columns, [1] p; [2] p., 1035-2030 [i.e. 2034] columns, [17] p.: [9] plates) ; (fol.). Marked "D (LP) 2"; "L B6". Vol. 1 rebacked. Provenance: Seventeenth-century armorial bookplate of Charles-René d'Hozier (1640-1732), who established the Armorial général de France. Late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century armorial bookplate showing Stewart arms impaled with Pratt arms, flanked by two supporters, underneath an earl's coronet. Motto "Metuenda corolla draconis", lettered "Londonderry" [used by either Robert Stewart (1739-1821) cr. 1st Earl of Londonderry in 1796, cr. 1st Marquess of Londonderry in 1816, or his second wife Lady Frances Pratt (ca. 1751-1833), dau. of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl of Camden]. Binding: Seventeenth[?]-century full mottled calf, double gilt fillet forming a border. Six raised bands, gilt tooling on spine. Lettered direct in gilt on spine "Vitae Pontific. / To. I[-II]". Edges sprinkled brown and red.
Makers and roles
Alfonso Chacón (1540-1599) Moralés Cabrera, Francisco de Andres Vittorelli (1580-1653) Ferdinando Ughelli (1595-1670) Andrea Brogiotti Girolamo Aleandro (1574 - 1629)