containing 78 different publications, all printed in Rome by Antonio Blado, including several directed against the Jews

300x195 mm. Late 18th-century vellum over boards, lettering piece on spine, blue edges. Manuscript pagination in the upper outer corner provided by an old hand for most of the volume. The volume gathers two major compendia of papal bulls, i.e. those issed from Bonifacius VIII (1294-1303) to Paul IV (1555-1559) and those issued by Pius V (1566-1572), as well as 66 bulls of Pope Pius IV (1559-1565) and 10 of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) in first edition. It also contains the statutes and privileges of the College of Apothecaries of the city of Rome in second edition (no. 2). Of particular interest are the bulls concerning the Council of Trent (nos. 4, 56 and 57), usury (nos. 9 and 17), the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia (nos. 41 and 42), the Order of St. Stephen (nos. 44 and 46), St. Peter's Basilica (no. 42), arquebuses regulation (no. 47), the University of Hoteliers of Rome (no. 49), the Inquisition (no. 54), the German-Hungarian College of Rome (no. 78), sumptuary laws, and the prohibition of heretical books (no. 1). But above all the collection gathers most of the bulls against the Jews issued by Paul III (1534-1549), Julius III (1550-1555), Marcellus II (April 9-May 1 1555), Paul IV, Pius IV and Pius V, including the one responsible for the burning of the Talmud and the one that established the ghettos (nos. 1, 7, 26, 65, and 69).
1. BULLAE diversorum Romanorum Pontificum incipientes a Bonifacio VIII. usque ad S.D.N.D. Paulum IIII. summa cum diligentia excerptae & in unum redactae. Procuratoribus et omnibus in Romana Curia versantibus utiles, et necessariae. Rome, Antonio Blado, 1559.
Folio. [5], 4-126 [i.e. 124], 48, [2] leaves. Leaves 95-96 omitted in numbering. Collation: *4 A-V6 X2 AA-HH6 II2. Roman, gothic and italic types. Title page printed in red and black within an elaborate woodcut border bearing the coat-of-arms of Paul IV Carafa, printed in red at the bottom (some copies have the arms of the dedicatiee, Cardinal Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Maria, instead). Woodcut historiated initials. In the prelimanry leaves are recorded the names of the popes under whose rule the bulls were issued (commencing with Bonifacius VIII and concluding with Paul IV). Title page soiled and with a small restoration to the bottom margin slightly affecting the border, tear repaired to the lower outer corner of l. *3 not affecting the text, some light staining and foxing, but a good, genuine copy bearing several marginal annotations and underlinings in an old hand.
First edition of this collection of papal bulls, which includes several directed against the Jews, most notably the bull responsible for the burning of the Talmud and that confining the Jews to a ghetto.The collection contains in fact all the bulls against the Jews issued by Paul III, Julius III, Marcellus II, and Paul IV, including the infamous Cum nimis absurdum of 1556, which established the ghettos, prohibited more than one synagogue in a town, forbade contact between jews and Christians, and imposed on jews distinctive clothing (cf. K. Stow, Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy 1555-1593, New York, 1977, passim).These are the texts regarding the Jews included in the collection:1) Quod ludei, cacterisque infideles ad agnitionem catholicac fidei venicetes bona patrimonialia […], Paul III, 21 March 1542 (ll. 97v-98r);2) Privilegia et Facultates Hebracis concessae, Julius III, 14 June 1561 (l. 115);3) Decretum DD. Inquisitorum hereticae pravitatis quod comburi debeant omnes Libri Thalmud Hebraeorum, Julius III, 12 August 1553 (ll. 121v-122r);4) Contra Hebracos retinentes libros in quibus alquid contra fidem catholicam notetur, vel scribatur, Julius III, 29 May 1554 (l. 122);5) De Prorogatione Subsidii Trecentorum Millium Scutorum, & Quartae partis fructum Congregationum regularium, ac Vigesimarum Hebracorum ad Triennium […], Marcellus II, 14 April 1555 (ll. 125v-126);6) De solutione singulis Sinagogis, etiam demolitis, vel ad unam redactis, vel redigendis i