Books and Manuscripts

Duaci: Baltazaris Belleri, 1607. Two parts in one volume; bound with Historiae admirandae tomus alter..., Duaci: Baltazaris Belleri 1607. First Douay edition. 4to. Translated out of the Italian of Paleoto by Mallonio, and edited by Gibbons. (xxxii), 429, (51); (xx), 444, (44) pp. Illustrated with an engraved vignette title-page and 26 engraved plates depicting the shroud of Turin and the Passion. Contemporary full pigskin over wooden boards, stamped in blind, later red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, original clasps intact; edges stained blue; from the library of the Elchingen Abbey, Bavaria with their ownership inscription on vignette title-page and half-title.

First Douay edition of the Latin translation of the first book devoted to the Shroud of Turin. Originally published in Italian by Paleoto in 1598, and later translated into Latin by Daniele Mallonio.

Elchingen Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Oberelchingen in Bavaria, Germany, in the diocese of Augsburg. Elchingen was one of 40 self-ruling imperial abbey's in the Holy Roman Empire, and was essentially an independent state answering directly to the Holy Roman Emperor himself. The abbey covered over 27,000 acres, containing numerous villages alongside the monastery, with over 4,000 subjects. It was secularized in the early 1800s.