Accession number:
PML 15044
Published:
Impressum Romae : per Iacobum Mazochium, [1520]
Description:
12 unnumbered leaves : portrait ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
First edition of papal bull against Luther.
Gothic and roman type (Proctor 12147) ; 30 lines. Title within four-piece border, white on black, and with Leo's arms, also white on black, below title. Small portrait medallion of Leo on p 1. Rubricated.
The bull "Exsurge Domine" of June 15, 1520, excommunicating Luther.
Binding:
Brown morocco by Riviere & Son for Pearson.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Manuscript note of approbation at end, with embossed bishop's seal (armorial and inscription on seal difficult to discern).
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co. with the Reformation collection, May 1907.
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