Clenardus, Institutiones ac meditationes in graecam linguam, Lyon, 1581, Parisian armorial morocco gilt for d'Amboise
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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CLENARDUS, NICOLAUS. Institutiones ac meditationes in graecam linguam. Lyon: Antoine Gryphe, 1581 [colophon: Geneva: Jérémie des Planches, 1580]
A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST AUGMENTED EDITION OF CLENARDUS' GREEK GRAMMAR BOUND FOR JACQUES-MARIE D'AMBOISE, containing the Institutiones, Meditationes graecanicae in artem grammaticam and a commentary by Friedrich Sylburg.
Nicolaus Clenardus or Cleynaerts (1495-1542) was a Flemish grammarian who lived and worked across Leuven, Salamanca, Granada and later Fez, intending to learn Arabic alongside teaching Latin and Greek. His Institutiones were first printed in 1530. Between 1530 and 1561 alone, 40 editions of the Institutiones were published at printing centres across Europe, as well as 9 editions which contained both the Institutiones and the Meditationes. These had many commentators.
This volume was bound for the French Hellenist Jacques-Marie d'Amboise (1538-1611), professor of rhetoric and philosophy at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, and Chair of Greek and Latin Philosophy at the Collège royal. Further volumes bound for d'Amboise in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana include Part V, 10 December 2024, lots 1057 (Cicero) and 1214 (Terentius) and, in the present sale, lot 1613 (Brucioli).
3 parts in one volume, 4to, 245 x 150 mm. Greek, Roman and italic type, 31 to 54 lines plus headline. collation: a-n4 o2 A-Z4 [2]a-z4 Aa-Hh4 ([2]l4v and Ff4v blank): 270 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on 2 title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some slight browning and spotting, 5mm stain to outer margins of X2-Y, 10mm tear without loss to lower outer corner of Y2, small scattered stains to lower margin of [2]g1-2.)
binding: Parisian armorial binding (250 x 160 mm), for Jacques-Marie d’Amboise, c. 1600, olive brown morocco over wooden boards, double frame of triple gilt fillets, wreath containing 4 stars at outer corners of inner frame, central panel containing an oval with triple gilt line border surrounding 2 branches of laurel, containing 4 stars, spine with 5 full bands, horizontal 2-line title in second compartment, 4 stars in other compartments, edges gilt. (Binding slightly soiled and rubbed at extremities, worming to foot of spine.)
provenance: Jacques-Marie d'Amboise (1538-1611), arms on binding—initials "SY" at foot of title-page—Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt am Main, Leo Baer, "Aus unserer Einbändesammlung. IV. Französische Renaissance-Einbände" in Frankfurter Bücherfreund 12 (1914), 2/3, p.212 and plate XLIa—Paul Hirsch (1881-1951), ex-libris—Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1950, lot 209 ("in the centre of each cover within an oval frame five stars surrounded by a wreath"), to—Maggs Bros., Catalogue 830, item 71a—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), red morocco gilt booklabel, bequeathed to Fondation Fürstenberg-Beaumesnil, sale, Wemaëre, de Beaupuis, Denesle, Binoche et Giquello, Paris, 9 December 2013, lot 117. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: von Gültlingen XIV: Gryphe 193; Adams, C-2153. exhibited: Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Furstenberg: 30 September 1961 (Paris 1961), no. 34
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