
Description
De planctu Ecclesiae libri duo.
Venice, Francesco Sansovino; 1560.
Original blind tooled pigskin over wooden boards, spine with raised bands, lacks clasps.
An important Venetian edition of the main work of the Galician canon lawyer Alvaro Pelayo (in Portuguese Alvaro Pais and in Latin Alvarus Pelagius), Bishop of Silves and confessor of Pope John XXII, who died in 1349
Some wormholes to the binding and part of the interior. Lacks endpapers.
Dampstain to the beginning and the end of the bookblock
Otherwise very clean and crispy leaves
Small folio. Size 8.5 by 12 inches
Text in Latin===========
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1560 CANON LAW WORK by GALICIAN LAWYER ALVARO PELAYO antique PIGSKIN BOUND FOLIO
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Ink of Ages: 15th-19th Century Antique Books
Mar 26, 2026 6:00 PM EDTNew York, NY, United States
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