Vitae Et Gesta Summorum Pontificum Ab Innocentio IV Usque Ad Clementem VIII Nec Non S. R. E. Cardinalium Cum Eorundem Insignibus. M. Alfonsi Ciaconii Biacensis Ordinis Praedicatorum, & Poenitentiarii Apostolici. Liber Secundus. Translated: The Lives and Deeds of the Supreme Pontiffs, from Innocent IV to Clement VIII, and also of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, with their coats of arms. By Alfonso Chacón of Baeza, of the Order of Preachers [Dominicans], and Apostolic Penitentiary. Book Two.

Vitae Et Gesta Summorum Pontificum Ab Innocentio IV Usque Ad Clementem VIII Nec Non S. R. E. Cardinalium Cum Eorundem Insignibus. M. Alfonsi Ciaconii Biacensis Ordinis Praedicatorum, & Poenitentiarii Apostolici. Liber Secundus. Translated: The Lives and Deeds of the Supreme Pontiffs, from Innocent IV to Clement VIII, and also of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, with their coats of arms. By Alfonso Chacón of Baeza, of the Order of Preachers [Dominicans], and Apostolic Penitentiary. Book Two. Chacón of Baeza, Alfonso. 1601. Rome: At the expense of the heirs of Pietro Antonio Lancia.

Early seventeenth-century biographical and historical account of popes from Innocent IV through Clement VIII, together with cardinals of the Roman Church. Especially notable for its extensive heraldic content, including hundreds of engraved coats of arms, many with contemporary or early hand coloring.

Folio.(8.75" x 12.5") (4) + 561-1284 + (12). Full limp vellum, manuscript in old ink to spine. Covers soiled, stained, with some old manuscript to both covers. Small tears to joints, head and foot of spine chipped. First free endpaper with small closed tears and chipping, with loss. Three initial leaves with professional paper repair to margins, not affecting text. Title page in red and black ink with prior ownership in old ink. Hand coloring to some head- and tail-pieces, engraved initial caps, and to several hundred engraved coats-of-arms (armorial woodcuts) on 192 pages with many others toward the rear of the text uncolored. Pencil and ink manuscript to rear pastedown. Both pastedowns with damage, biopredation, etc. Marginal stains and closed tears, some foxing, several darker pages, and many instances of transference of colors to adjoining pages throughout text. A fairly substantial book.