Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Cicero, Les epistres familiaires; Les questions Tusculanes, Paris, 1545, Parisian brown calf for Marcus Fugger
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CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Les epistres familiaires. Paris: Nicolas du Chemin, 1545 [bound with:]
Les questions tusculanes … Nouvellement traduictes de latin en francoys. Paris: [Benoît Prévost for] Maurice de La Porte, 1545
This is the French translation of Étienne Dolet. The edition was printed by Benoît Prevost for himself, Maurice de La Porte, and Guillaume Le Bret. Claude Longeon, Bibliographie des œuvres d'Etienne Dolet: écrivain, éditeur et imprimeur (Geneva 1980), no. 244, was unable to locate a copy with the name of La Porte, and none has since been located by BP16. The copy retains the distinctive vellum title-label affixed to the backs of Marcus Fugger's books by one of his librarians.
2 works bound in one volume, 16mo (115 x 75mm). (1) Roman and italic types, 28 lines plus headline. collation: a-z8 A-P8: 304 leaves. (k4 torn and repaired.) (2) Roman and italic types, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A–S4: 72 leaves.
binding: Contemporary Parisian brown calf for Marcus Fugger, ca 1550, 3 blind fillets around sides, frame of 3 blind fillets, gilt fleuron at corners, in centre gilt crowned double-headed spread eagle, spine with gilt rosette or quatrefoil in compartments, vellum label in second compartment with title in ink in lettre bâtarde, plain edges with 2-line title lettered in ink on fore-edge, collector’s clamshell case. (Joints cracked, extremities rubbed.)
provenance: Marcus Fugger, signature and pressmarks on pastedown; binding, by descent to — Marquart Fugger, who married Maria Christina, Countess of Oettingen-Wallerstein 1624 — Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, inkstamp on title, sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 11 May 1934, lot 246 — Jean Tannery (1878–1939), his sale, Ader, Paris, Paris, 4-6 May 1954, lot 50 — “Dart”, sale, Paris, 16 February 1977, lot 26 (see Hobson and Culot) — Michel Wittock, book label, his sale, Christie’s, 7 July 2004. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: (1) BP16 112010; USTC 40421; (2) BP16 112027; USTC 40451 (“lost book”); Hobson and Culot, Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings 41C (this copy)