Archive | 1522 RSS feed for this archive

¶ La legende des Flamans (1522)

October 7, 2016

Comments Off on ¶ La legende des Flamans (1522)

La legende des Flamans, artisiens et haynuyers. Paris: [Gilles Cousteau et François Regnault], 1522.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Thomas Grenville. — W. H. Crawford. — Crawford sale, Sotheby, 19 March 1891, lot 1846 (sold to Leighton for £8). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 660 (sold to Heppenstall for £14 5s.). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19, no. 246 (£20). — Fairfax Murray Catalogue (French), no. 308. — MS catalogue (2), no. 964, p. 90 (with two X’s beside it).


Sotheby 1898:

Image.png

Continue reading...

¶ Biblia (1522)

April 22, 2016

Comments Off on ¶ Biblia (1522)

Biblia cum concordantiis Veteris et Novi Testamenti et sacrorum canonum. Lyon: Jacques Sacon expensis Anton Koberger, 1522.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 179 (sold to Dawson for £2 18s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 194 (£3). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (£2 ). — MS catalogue (2), no. 357 (with two X’s next to it).

Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”


Sotheby 1898:

Image

Continue reading...

¶ Cicero and Erasmus

October 5, 2015

Comments Off on ¶ Cicero and Erasmus

Four books bound together in one volume:

[1] Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De amicitia. De Senectute. Paradoxa. Strasbourg: Johannis Knobloch and Paulus Getz, November, 1520.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (no price given).

[2] Erasmus, Desiderius. Brevissima maximeque compendiaria confidendarum epistolarum formula. Mainz: Schoeffer, February 1522.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 26b (£10s.).

[3] Erasmus, Desiderius. De ratione studii. Strasbourg: Johannes Knobloch, November 1521.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (no price given).

[4] Erasmus, Desiderius. Querela pacis, undique gentium eiectae profligataeque. Strasbourg: Johannes Knobloch, March 1522.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (no price given).


Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 211 (sold to Downing for £1 13s.). — W. T. Smedley. — Folger Library (Bd.w. PA6304 .L2 1520 Cage).


Sotheby 1898:

Image

Continue reading...

¶ Dares — De bello Trojano historia (c. 1519–22)

March 30, 2015

0 Comments

Dares, Phrigius. De bello Trojano historia. [Lyon: printed by Jean Marion for Romain Morin, c. 1519–22.]

Provenance: Morris (purchased from Quaritch, 31 March 1890, for £2). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 279 (sold to Breslauer for £1 12s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (£1). — MS catalogue (2), no. 761 (with two X’s beside the title).


Sotheby 1898:

Image

Continue reading...

¶ Juvenal — Satyrae (1522)

December 8, 2014

0 Comments

Juvenal [Juvenalis]. Satyrae. Venetia: Joannes Tacuinus, 1522.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 740 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 14s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 45 (5s.). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5v (7[?]s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 443.

Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”


Sotheby 1898:

Image

Continue reading...

¶ Arrighi — La operina (1522)

June 29, 2014

3 Comments

Arrighi, Ludovico degli. La operina di Ludovico Vicentino, da imparare di scrivere littera cancellarescha. [Rome, 1522.]

Bound with Arrighi, Il modo; Carpi, Thesauro; Tagliente, Lo presente libro.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 256 (part; sold to Leighton for £7 15s.). — Emery Walker. — May Morris [gift from Walker]. — Oxford University [bequest of May Morris]. — Society of Antiquaries of London (MR 38 b).

References: MS catalogue (2), no. 35 (with two X’s next to it). —Osley, A. S. “The Kelmscott Manor Volume of Italian Writing Books.” Antiquaries Journal 64, pt. 2 (1984): 351–60.

Digital version: Library of Congress.


Sotheby 1898:

Image

Continue reading...