Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Origenes, Opera, Basel, 1545, 2 volumes, contemporary Munich binding with fore-edge painting, Pillone library
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ORIGENES. Opera omnia [edited by Erasmus]. Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, September 1545
These bindings were made by Hans and Kaspar Schinnagl, active in Munich between 1518 and 1558. Hans Schinnagl likely worked as a bookbinder at the Munich court library of Duke Albrecht V (1528-1579). He also bound books for Duke Ernst of Bavaria (1500-1560), who became Administrator of the Diocese of Passau in 1517. The Schinnagl workshop continued under the supervision of Hans’ son, Kaspar (EBDB w002513).
Further volumes from the renowned Pillone library, with fore-edge paintings by Cesare Vecellio (1530-1601). This is one of ten Pillone lots in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana (see part I, 11 October 2023, lot 52). For other examples in this sale, see lots 1018 (Augustinus), 1050 (Castro), 1111 (Gregorius Nazianzenus) and 1139 (Landulfus Sagax).
2 volumes, folio (326 x 218mm). Roman and Greek type, table in italic type, 54 lines and headline. collation: (1) ά–β6 a–z6 A–Z6 Aa–Zz6 Aaa–Eee6 (2) aa–zz6 aaa–zzz6 4a–4z6 4a–4d6: 456 + 576 leaves. Printed marginalia, printer’s device on titles and at end of both volumes, historiated woodcut initials. (Minor marginal worming, very light dampstain in some upper margins, very light browning.)
binding: Contemporary Munich binding probably for Bonaccorso Grino of pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (340 x 240 mm), the two volumes uniformly tooled in blind, the sides with roll of religious scenes, roll with initals “HS/HSP” and "IP", and a floral roll, fleur-de-lys and Kopfstempel tools, the spine plain in compartments, four brass catches, three of four brass clasps, fore-edge paintings by Cesare Vecellio showing the seated author at work in profile (volume 1) and from behind with a shelf of books (volume 2), author’s name lettered vertically and horizontally in both fore-edges.
provenance: [Bonaccorso Grino (died 1553), his library at Schloss Burtembach, near Augsburg] — Odorico Pillone (1503-1594), his library in Casteldardo, near Belluno, inherited by — Giorgio Pillone (1539-1611) — Paolo Maresio Bazolle, who purchased Pillone artworks in 1874, and sold the books with fore-edge paintings to — Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908), of Armitage Bridge, armorial bookplate, Gilbert Ifold Ellis, A catalogue of the manuscripts and printed books collected by Thomas Brooke and preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield (London 1891), II, p.676 no. 111, inherited by — Humphrey Brooke (1914-1988), consigned — Alan Keen Ltd, The Venetian Library collected at the close of the XVI century by Doctor Odorico Pillone and the sides and edges painted by Cesare Vecellio (London, [1947]), item 111 — Pierre Berès, Bibliothèque Pillone bookplate, catalogue (Paris, [1957]), item 113 — Bartolomé March Servera (1917-1998), bookplate — sale, Christie’s, 3 June 1988, lot 67. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: VD16 O 909; USTC 681735