Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Siculus Flaccus, De agrorum conditionibus, Paris, 1554, olive morocco fanfare binding for Laubespine
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SICULUS FLACCUS, FRONTINUS AND OTHERS. De agrorum conditionibus, & constitutionibus limitum, Siculi Flacci liber I. Iulii Frontini lib. I. Aggeni Urbici lib. II. Hygeni Gromatici lib. II. Variorum auctorum Ordines finitionum. De iugeribus metiundis. Finium regundorum. Lex Mamilia. Coloniarum pop. Romani descriptio. Terminorum inscriptiones & formae. De generibus lineamentorum. De mensuris & ponderibus. Omnia figuris illustrata. Paris: Adrien Turnèbe, (24 November) 1554
A volume of classical texts on land surveying and boundaries, known as the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, beautifully bound by the Mahieu Aesop Binder for the French courtier Claude de Laubespine (1544-1570), one of perhaps nineteen books in the Laubespine library from this binder. The research of Isabelle de Conihout and Pascal Ract-Madoux identified these books with the brown inventory number ("cote brune") as belonging to Claude to Laubespine and his sister Madeleine, who married Nicolas de Villeroy.
Another Laubespine binding by the Mahieu Aesop Binder is in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana, a copy of the Aldine Theocritus (formerly in the Macclesfield Library; this will be offered in a future sale in New York).
4to (229 x 167 mm). Roman type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: *2 A-Z4 Aa-Kk4 Ll2 a-b4 c2: 146 leaves. Woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams and illustrations, additional printed slip bound after R3. (Marginal paper flaw on R1.)
binding: Parisian olive morocco fanfare binding (235 x 178 mm), made in the 1560s by the Mahieu Aesop Binder for Claude de Laubespine, covers with gilt interlacing and open and azured leafy stamps, spine gilt tooled in compartments with title lettered in second compartment, gilt edges. In modern red morocco pull-off case. (A few small wormholes in spine, small repairs to ends of spine.)
provenance: Claude de Laubespine (1544-1570), his library inherited by — Madeleine de Laubespine-Villeroy (1546-1596) and the cote brune inventory number 249 on flyleaf (added after her death) — Librairie Damascène Morgand, Livres dans de riches reliures des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles (Paris, 1910), item 45 — Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935), blue gilt booklabel, sale, Kende Galleries, New York, 7-8 December 1948, lot 271 — Raphäel Esmerian (1903-1976), booklabel, sale, Antoine & Étienne Ader, Jean-Louis Picard, Jacques Tajan & Claude Guérin, Paris, 6 June 1972, lot 68 — Pierre Berès, catalogue 93 (Paris, 2004), and Vente Pierre Berès, fifth part, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 438. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 151451; binding: Isabelle de Conihout, Poetry & Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered (Morgan Library, 2020), number 3