Sadoletus,J.
In Pauli episolam (!) ad Romanos commentariorum libri tres. Venice, Nicolini da Sabbio for Sessa 1536. with large woodcut publisher's mark a.p. 204 num. Bl. Flex. Prgt. d. with marked title in red. (Spotted and somewhat creased, missing the closing bands). This edition not in the BM and Adams. - Rare Venetian edition of Sadoletus' controversial commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, published the same year as the Lyons edition of S. Gryphius. Jacob Sadoletus (1477-1547) was, among other things, secretary to Pope Leo X and cardinal of the diocese of Carpentras (in Avignon). On the title the fine woodcut publisher's mark of M. Sessa: A cat surrounded by tendrils with a mouse in its mouth. - Somewhat water-margined and partly brownspotted.
