Que contenitur in hoc volumine sint infrascripta videlicet. Regula beati p. nostri Francisci.
Brixiae, Iacobum Britannicum Brixianum, 1502
Very important and very rare collection of this Brescian post-incunabulum of Franciscan rules and reforms in beautiful binding with blinded tooled decorations. The volume opens with the Rule of St. Francis, followed by his will. It then contains writings, letters, declarations and the constitutions that gave life to the Franciscan Order. The contributions are works by philosophers, theologians and the most eminent personalities of the ecclesiastical world of the time. They include: Bartholomew Rinonico, Bonaventure, John of Capistrano, Bernardino of Siena, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Martin V, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement V, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Nicholas III, Guillaume Farinier and Bartolus de Saxoferrato, the latter one of the most illustrious jurists of continental Europe of the 14th century and the greatest exponent of that legal school which was defined as the 'commentators'.
8vo; 205x155 mm. Leather binding with a frame and blind-tooled decorations on the covers. Red edges. 200 unnumbered pages. The first 12 pages feature initials and text in red and black. Numerous ornate woodcut initials. Text in two columns. At the end, 48 handwritten pages in neat and elegant handwriting in black and brown ink. The marginal handwritten notes and underlinings in the text are in the same hand. Defects and losses to the binding; internally, a fine copy.