Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Beda, Homiliae aestivales de tempore & de sanctis, Cologne, 1534, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding

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BEDA. Homiliae Bedae presbyteri Anglosaxonis Theologi suo aevo celeberrimi, aestivales de tempore & de sanctis. Cum indice. Cologne: Johann Gymnich, 1534


This Flemish binding can be attributed to Joris de Gavere, Pierre Caron or Pieter de Keysere, who all used the St Margaret panel in combination with other signed panel stamps of theirs (Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, no. 115, a 1524 edition of Erasmus). An almost identical binding is described by Goldschmidt, no. 191, on a copy of Florus printed in 1542 (now Davis Gift 301). This volume has the same parchment endleaves and red and blue paraphs, which Goldschmidt states are characteristic of Ghent bindings; it is quite plausible that it also had green silk ties originally, the stubs of which are still visible on the Florus and the Erasmus. All three volumes were in the library of François Vergauwen.

8vo (163 x 97 mm). Roman type, 33 lines plus headline. collation: A-Z Aa-Cc8: 208 leaves (last leaf blank). Woodcut architectural border to title-page (depicting Adam and Eve, Eve’s body inked over), woodcut initials, woodcut device on penultimate leaf (otherwise blank), red and blue paraphs. (A2-3 torn and repaired, L3-4 torn at lower corner without loss of text, occasional light damp-staining, light staining around the blue paraphs.)


binding: Contemporary Flemish (Ghent?) panel-stamped binding (169 x 110 mm), calf over thin wooden boards, each cover with two panel stamps with roundels of wild animals, one with a grapevine and animal border, the other with a line of text across the centre (“ora pro nobis sancta dei genetrix”) surround by leafy tendrils, the two panels separated by a horizontal stamp of St Margaret on a dragon between a wyvern and a griffin, plain spine with old manuscript lettering, plain edges, a leaf of parchment used as pastedown and flyleaf at front and rear of volume, two modern cloth ties. (Binding slightly rubbed, spine heavily restored, pastedowns plausibly replaced, upper joint cracked.)


provenance: "Sti Andree iuxta Bru[gas?]", Benedictine monastery of Sint-Andriesabdij (St Andrew’s Abbey) near Bruges, of the Bursfeld Congregation, early inscription at head of title-page (the monastery was suppressed at the French Revolution) — François Vergauwen, his letter W written at foot of upper pastedown (his library sold in Brussels in March 1884 but this volume not found in the catalogue) — Eugène Wassermann (1870-1925), sale, Galerie Georges Giroux & Henri Leclerc, Brussels, 24 October-5 November 1921, lot 973. acquisition: Purchased in 2009 from Sokol Books, London. references: VD16 B 1431

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