Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Terentius, Comoediae sex, Paris, 1541 (1542), French polished tan calf gilt

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TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS. P. Terentii Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exemplarium collatione, diligentius quàm unquam antehac, emendatae. Aelii Donati… commentarii… Calphurnii in tertiam Comoediam doctissima interpretatio… Indicata sunt diligentius carminum genera, & in his incidentes difficultates… studio & opera Des. Erasmi Roterodami, non fine praesidio veterum exemplarium. Paris: Robert I Estienne, 1541 (11 January 1542)


Bound for a member of the Bellièvre family, most probably Pomponne de Bellièvre, seigneur de Grignon (1529–1607), eminent diplomat and Chancellor of France from 1599-1605, with the family's arms on the binding. The tooling suggests a late sixteenth-century French binding. The present edition of Terence "appears to have been a favorite with collectors through the centuries, and Brunet records several famous copies, including those of de Thou et Heber" (Schreiber).

Folio (260 x 171 mm). Roman type. collation: a-z8 A-R8 S6: 326 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, ruled in red throughout, some lines in Phormio underlined in an early modern hand. (Small paper repairs to upper margins of a few early leaves).


binding: Late sixteenth-century French polished tan calf (260 x 171 mm), gilt fillet around sides, frame composed of 2 gilt fillets with flowers in pot at outer angles, in centre a cartouche composed of 2 interlaced ovals painted silver and surrounded by tendrils and azured leaves, with large azured fleurons at four extremities, in centre a brown morocco oval inlay with arms of Bellièvre, traces of two pairs of fabric ties, spine with 5 full and 2 half bands, gilt lozenge-shaped ornaments in compartments, title (possibly added later) "TERENTIVS" in second compartment, plain edges gilt. (Upper joint becoming fragile.)


provenance: Bellièvre family (probably Pomponne de Bellièvre, 1529-1607), arms on binding and crossed-out ownership inscription ("Bellievre") at lower margin of title-page — "Du Port", early modern ownership inscription at lower margin of title-page — "ex Libris henrici Lemaistre", ownership inscription at upper margin of title-page — "De Lorme", ownership inscription to front pastedown — François Issaly, Julien Pichon & Daniel Rossignol, Bibliothèque d'un amateur, Cannes, 20 October 2004, lot 481. acquisition: Purchased in 2011 from Hugues de Latude, Paris. references: BP16 110896; USTC 140134; Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p.52: 13; Schreiber, Estienne, 67

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