Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Cabrera, Meditatiunculae, Valladolid, 1548, contemporary Spanish brown morocco gilt, from the library of El Escorial

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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CABRERA, CRISTÓBAL. Meditatiunculae ad serenissimum Hispaniarum principem Philippum. Valladolid: Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, August 1548


RARE FIRST EDITION FROM THE LIBRARY AT EL ESCORIAL (USTC lists 3 institutional copies). For another work from this library, see lot 1697 (García de Galarza).


Cabrera (1513-1598) was a Franciscan missionary in New Spain in the 1530s and 1540s; he is best known as the first published poet of the New World. These verses, comprising his second published work, are all acrostics.


Written on the front pastedown is the shelfmark "372" and it is thus likely that this is the copy ("Christophori Cabrerae meditatiunculae, Pintiae 1548", 37-IV-37) recorded in the 1576 inventory of books transferred by King Philip II to the Escorial library (Gregorio de Andrés, "Entrega de la librería real de Felipe II (1576)" in Documentos para la Historia del Monasterio de San Lorenzo el Real de El Escorial (Madrid 1964), VII, p.56 no. 1041). As the book was dedicated to Philip II, this copy is likely to have been presented to the King by the author.

4to (200 x 136 mm). Roman type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: [ ]1 a-k8: 81 leaves. Woodcut royal arms and two woodcut angels holding a banner at head of title-page, woodcut initials. (Some very light spotting and browning, small strip of paper pasted to foot of title-page obscuring an old inscription.)


binding: Contemporary Spanish brown morocco gilt (206 x 148 mm), central round stamp and matching quarter-circle stamps in corners, each surrounded by a band of flame tools, blind stamp of El Escorial library on both covers, spine with 4 full and 5 half bands, small paper label with 1805 in ink in one compartment, stubs from 2 pairs of ties, edges gilt with author's name on fore-edge within a gauffered cartouche, case number 21 written at head of fore-edge. (Binding slightly rubbed and scraped, corners defective.)


provenance: Obscured inscription to title-page—Library of the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, blind stamp (gridiron, the emblem of St. Lawrence, the patron saint of the Escorial) on covers and numerous shelfmarks on verso of flyleaf, also "Dupp.do" (duplicado) on inside front cover—Sotheby's, 11 June 2019, lot 154. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: USTC 335184

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