Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Martialis, Epigrammata cum duobus commentis, Venice, 1493, contemporary Ulm binding, half pigskin over wooden boards
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MARTIALIS, MARCUS VALERIUS. Martialis cum duobus commentariis. Venice: Bartholomeus de Zanis, 1493 [bound with:]
PETRARCA, FRANCESCO. Bucolicum carmen in duodecim eglogas distinctum cum comento Benevenuti Imolensis viri clarissimi. [Venice: Simone Bevilacqua, 1503]
This tooled pigskin binding can be attributed to the workshop of the Benedictine Monastery in Wiblingen (EBDB w000097), near Ulm, active between 1475 and 1551, due to the characteristic pomegranate tool (s007957) and four-petalled flower (s007976). The watermark is similar to Briquet 13016, found in Konstanz, near Wiblingen, in 1506. On the fore-edge, the 28 original finger tabs are preserved, numbered or marked by hand to indicate the sections of each text. Above them, the initials I.M.A. may be a shelfmark.
This volume likely belonged to the monastic school and scriptorium of Wiblingen, formed in the fifteenth century to consolidate the monastery's historical role as a site of scholarship. Its library, at its peak, supposedly contained an impressive 15,000 volumes, but these were later dispersed across various libraries.
Folio (312 x 212 mm). Roman type, text surrounded by commentaries in smaller type, 43 lines plus headline. (1) collation: a6 b–t8 u10 (u10 blank): 160 leaves. Large white-on-black woodcut initials at the opening of each of the 12 books, smaller woodcut initials throughout, some manuscript headlines, neat early manuscript annotations. (Light staining, light ink stain on u8, some worming throughout.) (2) Roman type. collation: A-E6: 30 leaves. Two red rubricator's initials on the opening page. (Light staining.)
binding: Contemporary Ulm binding (322 x 228 mm), half pigskin over wooden boards from the workshop of the Benedictine Monastery in Wiblingen (EBDB w000097), tooled in blind with vertical row of pomegranate stamp and four-petalled flower stamp, spine with 4 broad bands, title in upper compartment, some deckle edges, plain edges, 2 brass clasps on fore-edge, 28 contemporary finger tabs, numbered or marked by hand with sections. (Numerous minor wormholes, some staining.)
provenance: Benedictine Monastery in Wiblingen, inscription F. F. Wibling. on first leaf. acquisition: Purchased in 1998 from Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco. references: (1) ISTC im00311000; USTC 993164; (2) USTC 995887; binding: EBDB w000097; Briquet 13016