Sarpi's Historia del Concilio Tridentino (London, 1619)

Front cover

Natural calf; triple fillet border on covers and double fillet on edges; inner dentelles with gilt lacy pattern; blue and white marbled pastedowns, flyleaves and edges, in French curl pattern; 290×190×50 mm.

Spine

Gilt-tooled with raised bands and eight compartments, showing brown leather label with title ‘HISTORIA | DEL CONCIL. TRID.’ lettered in gilt in the second one and rococo decoration of leaves, flower-vase and bird in the rest. The paper label shows current shelf-mark.

Edges

Front edge. Marbled, showing French curl pattern.

Front endleaves

Front pastedown and flyleaf, with 18th-century ex-libris bookplate and 20th-century institutional label. The inner border shows French-style gilt dentelle.

Bookplate. Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (1728–1800)

Printed eighteenth-century bookplate pasted on front pastedown. Shows Wilmot Vaughan's armorial in Chippendale style bearing his motto, 'Non revertar inultus ('I will not return unrevenged'), and nobility title: 'The Right Honourable | Wilmot, Earl of Lisburne, | [in the Kingdom of Ireland ]', this last handwritten. A paper label, carrying Vaughan's handwritten library shelfmark ('North Side. | Case I. Shelf I. Nº 7.'), is pasted on it. It conceals the second part of Vaughan's title: 'in the Kingdom of Ireland”.

Book label

Paper label with library inscriptions. Pasted on the recto of front flyleaf.

Front blank leaves

Front flyleaf, verso, and front binder’s leaf, recto. With inscriptions.

Inscription. Bookseller's price

A 20th-century bookseller’s code and price in pencil: '17-'and '500 f.'; top of front binder’s leaf, verso.

Inscription. Louis-Jean Gaignat's ex libris

Ex libris 'E[x] Bibliotheca Ga[i]gnat Paris:' on front flyleaf, verso.

Inscription. Catalogue number

Eighteenth-century inscription in ink: 'Nº 596.'; front flyleaf, verso.

Inscription. Library shelf-mark

Shelf-mark from the Central Library of the University of Valladolid: '3982', 20th century; front binder’s leaf, recto.

Inscription. Aureliano Viñas' autograph

Erased pencil autograph. Place and date of acquisition: 'Paris 11-1-19?2', 20th century; centre of front binder’s leaf, recto.

Title Page

Historia | del | Concilio | Tridentino. | NELLA QVALE SI SCOPRONO | tutti gl' artificii della Corte di Roma, per impedire | che né la veritá di dogmi si palesasse, né la | riforma del Papato & della Chiesa | si trattase. | DI | PIETRO SOAVE | POLANO. | [rule] | [royal coat of arms, 66x62 mm.] | [double rules] | In Londra, | Appresso GIOVAN[IO] BILLIO. | Regio Stampatore. | M. DC XIX [1619].

Device

The new royal coat of arms created by James I, with 'I R' for 'Iacobus Rex' either side of the crown and the motto 'Diev et mon droit.' across the bottom.

Inscription. Biblioteca FyL accession number

Former UVa accession number: 'R. 20.128'. General Registration Book of the library of the UVa, 20th century. Top-left corner of title-page.

Inscription. Viñas collection accession number

Accession number from the Viñas Registration Book of the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters: 'RV. 2808', 20th century; title-page, bottom left.

Paper

Laid; watermarked, potwith two  handles with grapes on top, bunch of grapes; vertical chainlines, chain 20 mm.

Rear blank leaves

Inscriptions. Booksellers and catalogues codes

20th-century booksellers’ codes; recto face of back binder’s leaf, top-right corner.

Rear endleaves

Rear pastedown and flyleaf. The inner border shows French-style gilt dentelle.

Back cover

Natural calf; triple fillet border on covers and double fillet on edges; inner dentelles with gilt lacy pattern; blue and white marbled pastedowns and flyleaves, in French curl pattern; 290×190×50 mm.