UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN LOUVAIN - Paus Martinus V - Louvain University - Pope Martinus V : - PRIVILEGIUM MARTINI QUINTI Pontificis Maximi, Quod Rector, Doctores, Magistri, Scholares, alijve Universitatis extra muros oppidi Louvaniensis ad iu liciu euocari aut trahi non posint. [in fine] Datum Romae apud santos Apostolos, V.Idus Septembris, Pontificatus nostri anno decimo.

S.l. ( Leuven ?) s.d. ( ca. 1650), in-4°, 23 x 17 cm, 4 pp, two copies in-plano, printed head to head, uncut, unopened . The text of the Papal Bull, dated 9th december 1425 on the founding of Louvain University. This imprint of the bull was probably made at Louvain in the 17th century. Watermark; a rectangle (20 x 12 mm) with on top a small circle (2 mm) and a crown (17 x 13 mm), elsewhere on the page grapes in rhomb form. Rare 17th c. edition of one of the juridical privileges of Louvain University, granted by Pope Martinus V on 9th september 1427. Only one other copy known ( a copy sold at auction in Brussels, Romantic Agony, june 2006). .