Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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Titelmans, Libri sex de consideratione dialectica, Paris, 1545, contemporary French tan calf tooled in silver

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TITELMANS, FRANÇOIS. Libri sex de consideratione dialectica, per Fratrem Franciscum Titelmanum, Hesselensem, ordinis fratrum Minorum, sanctarum scripturarum apud Lovanienses Praelectorem. Paris: François Regnault, 1545


François Titelmans (1502-1537) taught at Louvain, where he was the Director of the Hasselt Academy. The present work, on dialectics, is closely related to his philosophical teachings. A strict adherent to the scholastic tradition, Titelmans held a deep distrust of Erasmus and humanist philosophy.

8vo (168 x 102 mm). Italic type, 33 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z8 a-f8: 232 leaves. Title-page with two woodcut coats of arms.


binding: Contemporary French tan calf (173 x 110 mm), blind line around sides and forming a frame in central panel, silvered fleurons at outer angles, in centre of upper cover a circle containing a silvered classical figure of the head of a bearded man wearing a laurel wreath, on lower cover a circle containing the silvered head of a woman, whose hair is in a net, lettering on upper cover "LAVS DEO" and on lower cover "L[ITTE]RAS DISCE[RE]", spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, small fleur-de-lys in each compartment, plain edges stained red, head edge title "Dialecta" in ink. (Rebacked retaining most of original spine, with top half of upper compartment neatly supplied.)


provenance: Nineteenth-century purple armorial stamp (chevron, 2 eagles above, one eagle below, supported by griffons with "SERRANT" on banderol underneath)—traces of removed bookplate to front pastedown. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris. references: BP16 112264; USTC 195726

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