Post-Incunabulum of Franciscan rules and reforms.... Lot n° 3

Que contenitur in hoc volumine sint infrascripta videlicet. Regula beati p. nostri Francisci. Brixiae, Iacobum Britannicum Brixianum, 1502 8vo; 202x150 mm. Full leather binding on wooden slats with embossed decoration to plates and 3-nerved spine. Leather clasps with metal finish and shell-shaped clasps. Manuscript cuts. 200 unnumbered cc. Handwritten notes in brown ink to first and last 2 pages. First 12 papers with initials and text in red and black. Very many ornate capilettera in xyl. First 7 papers with reinforcement restoration to lower margin. Text in two columns. At paper A1: Incipit Tractatus minoricarum domini Bartoli de Saxoferrato. Fine copy. Very important and very rare collection of this Brescian post incunabulum of Franciscan rules and reforms in beautiful binding with embossed decorations. The volume opens with the Rule of St. Francis, followed by his will. It then contains writings, letters, declarations and the constitutions that gave birth to the Franciscan Order. The contributions are works by philosophers, theologians and the most eminent personalities of the ecclesiastical world of the time. They include Bartholomew of Rinonico, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, John of Capestrano, Bernardine of Siena, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Martin V, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement V, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Nicholas III, Guillaume Farinier, and Bartolo of Sassoferrato, the latter one of the most distinguished jurists of 14th-century continental Europe and the leading exponent of the legal school that came to be called the 'commentators. 8vo; 202x150 mm. Full leather binding on wooden boards with blinded tooled on the covers and on the spine with 3 ribs. Leather clasp with metal finish. Manuscript note on edges. 200 unnumbered leaves. Handwritten notes in brown ink on the first and last 2 pages. The first 12 leaves with initials and text in red and black. Lots woodcut initials. The first 7 leaves with reinforcement restoration on the lower margin. Text on two columns. On leaf A1: Incipit Tractatus Minoricarum Domini Bartoli de Saxoferrato. Good specimen. Very important and very rare collection of this Brescian post-incunabulum of Franciscan rules and reforms in beautiful binding with blinded tooled decorations. The volume opens with the Rule of St. Francis, followed by his will. It then contains writings, letters, declarations and the constitutions that gave life to the Franciscan Order. The contributions are works by philosophers, theologians and the most eminent personalities of the ecclesiastical world of the time. They include: Bartholomew Rinonico, Bonaventure, John of Capistrano, Bernardino of Siena, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Martin V, Pope Benedict XII, Pope Clement V, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Nicholas III, Guillaume Farinier and Bartolus de Saxoferrato, the latter one of the most illustrious jurists of continental Europe of the 14th century and the greatest exponent of that legal school which was defined as the 'commentators'.