Item #74 Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains. Hieronymus Canini, I. Le Secq, original Italian.
Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains
Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains
Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains
Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains

Histoire de l’Élection et Couronnement du Roy des Romains

Publisher: Paris: Jacques de Sanlecque, 1613.

Edition: Early French edition, Paris 1613

Binding: Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered spine title, old paper label at foot of spine (“4696”), remains of ties. Vellum worn and soiled, loss at head of spine, worming and abrasions to rear cover. Contemporary ink titling also on textblock fore-edge.

Description: Scarce early 17th-century French translation of Hieronymus Canini’s treatise on the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, based on the Golden Bull of Charles IV (1356). This important legal-historical work discusses the procedures by which the dignity of emperor was obtained, the role of the seven prince-electors, and the ceremonial aspects of imperial coronation. It also treats the origins and alterations of electoral titles, offices, and prerogatives.

Published in Paris in 1613 by Jacques de Sanlecque, this edition is dedicated to Cardinal du Perron. The text provides a valuable window into early modern French perspectives on imperial law and political theory during a time of intense European dynastic rivalries.

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, with manuscript spine title and ink titling along the textblock fore-edge (“Election de l’Empereur”). An old shelf label (“4696”) and blue dot mark the spine, evidence of institutional shelving. On the front flyleaf is a contemporary ink note recording price/classification (“8° Tabellio …”). Wear consistent with age but internally clean and complete, a well-preserved example of a significant political-legal treatise.

Condition: Good — vellum worn with losses and worming, fore-edge title in contemporary ink; textblock clean and complete.

Annotation: Paris 1613 edition of Canini’s treatise on the imperial election and the Golden Bull, in French, with vellum binding and contemporary manuscript titling.

Item #74

Price: $880.00

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