1582 - Marco Da Lisboa - Croniche Degli Ordini Institute

"Chronicle of the Orders established by Padre San Fransesco" Chronicle of the ordini institutes of Padre San Francesco. (…)
In Venetia MD LXXXII.

Rare volume in-quarto format (15 x 20 cm), in Italian, printed in Venice in 1582.
Bound in full contemporary vellum, joints of the first cover lined in old vellum. The headcaps are solid, the notebooks are well sewn, the work is easy to handle and read. Sound paper, scattered foxing considering the 440 or so years of this work.
Very pretty initials distributed throughout the text. Regular grid allowing for the mentions of notes. A few handwritten words adorn this work, testifying to a diligent, devoted, passionate reading.
On the back of the title page, a magnificent old handwritten biographical note: "The first chronicler of the order. St. Francis was Mark of Lisbon, a minor friar of the Province of Portugal and Bishop of Porto. He wrote his Chronicle in Portuguese, which was translated into the main languages of Europe. It is written with great ingenuity, in a pious tone, and the life of St. Francis is told with great grace and contains many details. 1886 ».

Copy collated from the one digitized by the Municipal Library of Lyon in 2010 (Jesuit Library of Fontaines).
Warning and Preface + Tavola + 395 p. + 315 p. + 2 engravings.
Outside the text (one before "Libro primo" of the first part and one between pages 136/137 Vol. secondo).
Pagination errors, a "classic"; but let's not be so intransigent, the printing press is only 82 years old! On pages 24/25: error in the signature at the bottom of the page but no missing pages; the text is continuous. Finally, between pages 260 and 275, there is no missing page to report either but very fanciful pagination. Good condition for a work almost 450 years old.
Wear from use. Cracks in the vellum. Lower corner of page 301 shortened by overly passionate reading. At the beginning of the second volume, 3 table pages (tavola) and 1 blank page are missing just before the start of the "libro terzo", not affecting the reading of the body of the text.