Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Alexander Aphrodisiensis, Quaestiones naturales, morales et de fato, Venice, 1541, contemporary calf

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ALEXANDER APHRODISIENSIS. Alexandri Aphrodisiensis quaestiones naturales, morales, et de fato. Hieronymo Bagolino Veronensi patre, et Ioanne Baptista filio interpretibus. Venice: Girolamo Scoto, 1541

A translation of Alexander’s philosophical works by the Paduan professor Gerolamo Bagolino and his son Giovanni Battista, one of numerous Aristotelian works edited and translated by them.

The first owner of the volume, Jean Chevignard, has been identified with a Jean Chevignard/de Chevigny of Beaune, and perhaps with Jean-Aimé de Chavigny (see Bernard Chevignard, “Jean-Aimé de Chavigny: son identité, ses origins familiales”, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 58 (1996), 419-425, mentioning this binding on p. 420, and “L’enigme Chevigny/Chavigny: les pièces du dossier”, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 67 (2005), 353-371). This Chevigny was a poet and a doctor, with links to Jean Dorat and Nostradamus, who composed prefaces to several books printed in Lyon in the 1550s. He was in Paris by 1560, and presumably had this book bound at around that time. No other books from his library are yet recorded.

Folio (317 x 213 mm). Roman type, 53 lines plus headline. collation: A-O⁴: 56 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, headlines within woodcut cartouches. Bibliographical notes in pencil on front flyleaf.

binding: Contemporary calf gilt (321 x 221 mm), attributed to the Salel Binder, double frame of double gilt fillets, title lettered in centre of both covers surrounded by leafy arabesque tools, name of owner IO. CHEVIGNARDI ET AMICORUM within a cartouche at foot of upper cover, spine with small gilt flower stamp, gilt edges. In a modern brown morocco drop-backed box with matching tooling. (Binding heavily restored, leather delaminating.)

provenance: Jean Chevignard, name on binding — "Ad Hugonem Salinum", early inscription on title-page — Jacques-Joseph Techener, Bulletin du Bibliophile, no.19 (July 1835), item 1720 — Jacques-Charles Brunet (1780-1867), sale, Delbergue-Cormont & Adolphe Labitte, Paris, 20-24 April 1868, lot 80 — Maggs Bros, London, catalogue 489 (London, 1927), item 67 — Librairie Gumuchian et Cie, Catalogue 12 (Paris, 1929), item 34 — Librairie Vénot, Lyon, purchased in 1934 by — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), bookplate dated 1937 — Ader, Picard, Tajan & Guérin, sale, Paris, 15 November 1971, lot 3 — sale, Sotheby’s, 23-24 June 1975, lot 98 — Haven O’More (1929-2008), Garden booklabel, sale of The Garden Ltd, Sotheby’s, New York, 9-10 November 1989, lot 52. acquisition: Purchased at the preceding sale. references: Edit16 1047

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