Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Equicola, Libro di natura d'amore, Venice, 1531, contemporary Roman black morocco gilt with central impresa

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5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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EQUICOLA, MARIO. Libro di natura d'amore di Mario Equicola, novamente stampato, et con somma diligentia corretto. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, March 1531 [bound with: ]


BENIVIENI, GIROLAMO. Opere. Novissimamente rivedute et da molti errori espurgate. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino & Vincenzo di Paolo, 12 April 1522


THIRD EDITION OF EQUICOLA AND SECOND EDITION OF BENIVIENI IN A CONTEMPORARY ROMAN BINDING, ONE OF THREE EXTANT VOLUMES WITH THIS IMPRESA.


Anthony Hobson locates three bindings with this impresa of a hound chasing a bird and the motto "Non curo l’ fin purch’ alt’ impresa segua", which he translates as "I care not for the result provided that the enterprise be lofty". Alongside the present volume, the other two are:


i) Dante, Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta, Venice: Aldine Press, 1515. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. De Marinis, II, no. 1400, pl. CCXXXVIII

ii) Dante, De la volgare eloquenzia , Vicenza: Tolomeo Gianicolo, 1529. Rome, Bibl. Naz. Centrale Vittorio Emanuele, 69.3.C.34


Hobson attributes them to the same anonymous shop as the "Co'l Tempo" bindings, a series of three with the impresa of an astrolabe with this motto; see lots 1762 (Martelli) and 1865 (Xenophon). The present volume was then likely bound in Rome around 1535, by a shop which specialised in the import of Venetian editions of vernacular works. The person for whom the three volumes were bound has yet to be identified (A. Hobson, "Some sixteenth-century buyers of books in Rome and elsewhere" in Humanistica Lovaniensia 34A (1985), pp. 65-75 (pp. 68-69)).

2 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 96 mm). (1) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A-2E8: 224 leaves. Title in elaborate woodcut cartouche, initial spaces with printed guides, early annotations in brown ink in Italian, small woodcut portrait on final verso. (Marginal dampstaining, title-page and first two leaves remargined at lower outer corner, tear to upper outer corner of 2C7-8 not affecting text.) (2) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 &8 2A-2B8: 208 leaves (final verso blank). Title in elaborate woodcut cartouche, printed initials. (Repaired marginal wormhole from 2B5 to endpaper.)


binding: Roman black morocco (158 x 110 mm), 1530s, tooled in blind, free-hand gougework frame involving 2 pairs of blind fillets looped at corners, interlaced at centres, forming large central roundel containing impresa of a dog chasing a bird surrounded by "NON.CVRO.'L.FIN.PVR'.CH'.ALT'. IMPRESA. SEGVA", spine with 3 full bands, 2-line title running down central compartments, stubs from 4 pairs of ties. (Head of spine repaired, lacking ties.)


provenance: Italian owner, sixteenth-century monogram and motto on cover and manuscript annotations—?"Agu.o Zamboccanii", early inscription to title-page—eighteenth-century stamp of arms crowned with "A" above, "B" to left, "D" beneath to title-page—Lawrence Witten, catalogue 15 (1981), 48a—Swann Galleries, New York, 18 November 1993, lot 79. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: (1) Edit16 CNCE 18189; USTC 828209; (2) Edit16 CNCE 5322; USTC 813821

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