Ecclesiastical Course. Gallery of portraits. Circa... Lot 4

[Ecclesiastical Course. Gallery of portraits]. Circa 1650. 2 leaves of handwritten tables, 1 blank, xxii (22) leaves each with a band of 10 portraits of the popes, in chronological order and beginning with Jesus Christ, followed by leaves 12 to 368 (with no apparent gaps, and foliation errors) beginning with Pope Urban VI to Urban VIII, 38 portraits. (Important handwritten biographical sketches for popes Urban VI to Pius IV). Followed by the Cardinals, including a gallery of 67 portraits whose habit and cap have been highlighted in red ink, with the dates of their appointments (1583 to 1608), and followed by 175 portraits of ecclesiastical personalities including Richelieu, Mazarin, Ioannes Miraeus, Cornelius Janssen, Ignatius of Loyola, Georges Froger, etc. A frame in red ink delimits, recto/verso, the space used or planned for the engravings and their notices. Volume in-folio, bound in contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated. (some defects of use). Ex-libris Dubois de Foisseux.