Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Panvinio, Romanorum principum et eorum quorum maxima in Italia fuerunt, Basel, 1558, Roman armorial morocco for Giacomo Boncompagni

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7,000 - 9,000 GBP

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PANVINIO, ONOFRIO. Onuphrii. Panvinii. Veronensis. Fratris. Eremitae. Augustiniani Romanorum. Principum et. Eorum. Quorum. Maxima. In. Italia. Imperia. Fverunt. Libri.IIII eiusdem de. Comitiis. Imperatoriis. Liber In quo universa imperatorum eligendorum ratio, ab augusto caesare usque ad imperatorem Carolum v saepius immutata, explicatur. Basel: Heinrich Petri, August 1558


ROMAN ARMORIAL BINDING FOR GIACOMO BONCOMPAGNI.


The arms of Giacomo Boncompagni, the natural son of Gregory XIII, are surmounted here by the papal insignia, in recognition of his role as Papal Gonfalonier, though later in life he patronised musicians and men of letters and amassed a substantial library, organised by the historian Carlo Sigonio, whose library Boncompagni obtained after Sigonio’s death. Matching bindings, with the same central armorial and corner-pieces, though with a different border, are illustrated in Legatura romana barocca 1565-1700, item 4 (an empty binding) and in Hobson & Culot, Italian and French 16th-century bookbindings, item 21 (Plotinus, Basel, 1559). 

Folio (314 x 208 mm). Roman type. collation: α6 a-o6 p10 q-r8 s-z6 (gatherings s and t irregularly paginated) A-B4 C-P0 Q-Z6 Aa-Cc6: 252 leaves. Title-page and verso of final leaf with woodcut device. (Dampstaining, some marginal worming, mostly to endleaves.)


binding: Roman armorial binding for Giacomo Boncompagni (332 x 226 mm), c. 1580, olive morocco, outer border of 2 pairs of blind fillets with the gilt Boncompagni dragons in the corners, broad gilt arabesque (ivy) roll border flanked by double gilt fillets, large arabesque cornerpieces, in centres large gilt oval containing, within a rich Renaissance cartouche supported by 2 angels upholding a ducal diadem, the duke's coat-of-arms, the Boncompagni dragon, in chief the Basilica, i.e., the papal umbrella with the crossed keys, 4 bands on spine, in top compartment 7-line gilt title, in others the gilt dragon, traces of 2 pairs of ties, gilt edges. (Some worming to spine and pastedowns, old minor restoration to spine ends, extremities slightly rubbed.)


provenance: Giacomo Boncompagni (1548-1612), duca di Sora, arms on binding—Boncompagni family, shelfmarks on inside front cover ("Bor.III.n.15") and verso of front free endpaper ("F.II.24") and wyvern stamp on title-page—Maggs Bros., Catalogue 407 (1921), item 158, said to be a binding for the Cardinal Borghese, and Catalogue 489 (1927), item 89—Jean Fürstenberg (1890-1982), bookplate—Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 110, no. 59. acquisition: Purchased in 1992 from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York. references: USTC 679590; VD16 ZV 12146; Tammaro De Marinis, Die italienischen Renaissance-Einbände der Bibliothek Fürstenberg (Hamburg 1966), pp. 68-69. exhibited: Exposition de reliures de la Renaissance: collection Jean Furstenberg: 30 September 1961 (Paris 1961), no. 84; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Collection Jean Furstenberg: 3 mai–5 juin 1966 (Geneva 1966), no. 18

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