1560 CANON LAW WORK by GALICIAN LAWYER ALVARO PELAYO antique PIGSKIN BOUND FOLIO

ALVARI PELAGII

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


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