Giardino serafico istorico
Subtitle: fecundo di fiori, e frutti di virtu, di zelo, e di santita, nelli tre Ordini instituiti dal Gran Patriarca de Poveri S. Francesco ; dove si vagheggia l'Origine, il Progresso, e lo Stato di tutta la religione de Minori con tutto cio, che in essa avvenne di Singolare, Glorioso, e Grande ; aperto in due Tomi, & esposto alla commodita, diletto, e divozione de Professori di Regolare Istoria
By: dal P. Pietro Antonio di Venezia M.O. Riformato
Contributors: Louisa, Domenico; Sabatier, Paul, 1858-1928, former owner
Publisher: Per Domenico Lovisa
Published: 1710
Place of publication: In Venezia
Language: ita
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; Early works to 1800; Franciscans; History
Other titles: Giardino serafico; Paul Sabatier Franciscan Collection.
Notes: Each volume includes engraved plate of St. Francis of Assisi after title. Also included in text are engravings of religious habits of male and female members of the Franciscan orders and woodcuts of episcopal coats of arms.

Title vignettes ; initials ; head- and tail-pieces ; printed marginalia.

Signatures. v. 1: [pi]́þ [star]́þ a-b́þ [sec.]́þ A-4Ĺþ ℗ø4Ĺþ 4M-5Ǵþ (4K2 missigned 4L2 4Q2 missigned 4R2) ; v.2  [pi]́þ [sec.]́þ, A-4D́þ (X2 missigned V2).

Pagination v.1: [40], 792 p. ; v.2:  [16], 568, [16].

Includes indexes.

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy FR.49.P61 from the collection of Paul Sabatier. Bound in parchment (vol. 1 over stiff pasteboards, vol. 2 over limp, with both pasteboards made of printer's waste from 16th- or 17th-century book.) Lettering piece missing from volume 2. Texts edges green. Water and mold damage to top of vol. 2, with browning and some loss of text. With institutional bookplates. Received by BPL in May 1930. With several temoins on leaf edges and a paper fragment on leaf 3Y1 verso which was evidently stuck to the sheet and printed over.