Vitae Romanorum Pontificum a d. Petro usque ad Clementem VIII

Ex Platinae historia in epitomen redactae (...). Liège, H. Houij, 1597, (48),499,(1) p., with woodcut coat of arms on title, illustration on p. 1 and ± 240 portraits in the text, finely bound in contemporary gilt and blindstamped turned vellum, small 8vo.

Several quires sl. protruding along top edge (there trifle frayed). Lacks ties. PiCarta lists as contributors Jean Baptiste de Glen (1552-1613), Bartolomeo de' Sacchi detto Battista Platina (1421-1481) en Onuphrius Panvinius (1530-1568). With interesting owner's inscription in pen dated 1691 by Bernard Cappelier of Tournai, himself the author of the oft-reprinted work La Diocèse de Tournai (1st ed. 1694). He also wrote that he purchased the work at auction: "Ex auctione D. Laurentii De Lansnoit quondam capellani in B.V." In the same hand has been added on p. 499 the date of death of the last pope mentioned in the book (Clement VIII): "Vita functus est 3e martii 1605".