Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Claudianus, Opera, Lyon, 1561, contemporary French vellum gilt for Hartmann von Liechtenstein

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CLAUDIANUS, CLAUDIUS. Cl. Claudiani poetae celeberrimi opera. Quorum catalogum, post eius vitam ex Petro Crinito ac Volaterrano reperies. Lyon: heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1561 [bound with:]


LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNAEUS. M. Annaei Lucani de bello civili libri decem. Lyon: Symphorien Barbier for Antoine Vincent, 1560


From the library of Hartmann von Liechtenstein and Nikolsburg; more than 200 volumes survive from his library, all in bindings dated 1577-1578, when he was creating a Renaissance villa for himself at Lednice (Moravia), and mostly on small format books. Much of his library entered the library of the Princes of Liechtenstein in Vienna, though a few were removed from the library earlier on. For another volume from his library, see Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, 11 October 2023, lot 7; a future sale will include a de Tournes edition of Paradin’s genealogical work.

2 works in one volume, 16mo (120 x 76 mm). Italic type, 29 and 35 lines plus headline. collation: (1) a-z8: 184 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, woodcut initials and tailpiece. (Z3 torn at head.) (2) a-p8: 120 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page. (Quire a becoming loose.) Ruled in red.


binding: Contemporary French gilt-tooled limp vellum (127 x 54 mm), gilt interlaced centrepiece, with initials H.H.V.L.V.N. above and the date M., D. LXXVII. below, flat spine gilt, fore-edge flaps, gilt edges, holes from two pairs of ties, sixteenth-century French vellum manuscript fragments in binding. (Upper corner of fore-edge flap slightly defective, binding slightly rubbed, spine a little faded.)


provenance: Hartmann von Liechtenstein und Nikolsburg (1544-1585), initials on binding — Feldsberg (Valtice, Moravia), convent, inscription on title-page — old shelfmarks "Cista III lib B Num:63" and "C.R.C." on title-page — blue ink stamp on title-page from a Viennese institution — Reiss und Sohn, sale, Königstein im Taurus, 24-26 April 2007, lot 594. acquisition: Purchased in 2007 from Maggs Bros, London. references: (1) USTC 153169; von Gültlingen V: Gryphe 1452; (2) USTC 152828

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