Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Budé, Commentarii linguae Graecae, Cologne, 1530, later marbled calf with fore-edge decoration, Gómez Dávila y Toledo copy

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BUDÉ, GUILLAUME. Commentarii linguae graecae, Gulielmo Budaeo, Consiliario Regio, supplicumque libellorum in Regia Magistro, auctore. Cologne: Johann Soter, March 1530


A volume featuring a fore-edge title with armorial decoration, indicating that the library was shelved with the fore-edges facing out, typical of sixteenth-century Spanish libraries. Gómez Dávila y Toledo, 2nd Marqués de Velada, owned a substantial scholarly library of more than 500 volumes; his brother Sancho, bishop of Plasencia, also owned books with similar fore-edge decoration, but with a bishop’s hat rather than a crown above one of the armorials. The library of Gómez Dávila y Toledo contained around 300 volumes in 1596, and by 1624 the family library contained over 2,500, including those of both brothers. One of his daughters married the Marqués de Astorga, and the library merged with that of the Astorgas, along with other noble collections acquired through marriage. At the death of a later Marqués de Astorga in 1816, the family was in such debt that much of the vast library was sold in the 1820s, though this volume seems to have remained in the family until 1870.


For other volumes from the library with fore-edge decoration, see lots 1127 (Isocrates), 1188 (De Deutz), 1208 (Tacitus), 1229 (Vegetius) and 1238 (Villalobos) which belonged to Gómez Dávila y Toledo, and lots 1104 (Gerson), 1105 (Gesner) and 1194 (Seneca) which belonged to his brother Sancho.

Folio (303 x 183 mm). Roman and Greek type, 52 lines plus headline. collation: ΑΑ-ΒΒ4 ΓΓ6 a-z6 A-Z6 Aa6: 314 leaves. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and on final verso (otherwise blank), woodcut initials. (Occasional light staining.)


binding: Eighteenth-century Spanish marbled calf (317 x 207 mm), thin gilt decorative border, spine with gilt decoration and red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment, some deckle edges, retaining late sixteenth-century decoration on the fore-edge, title lettered across fore-edge with armorials and leafy decoration. (Binding slightly rubbed and worn, small repair to lower corner of lower cover.)


provenance: Gómez Dávila y Toledo (1541-1616), arms on fore-edge — old shelfmark "Est. 13.A" on title-page — [by family descent to] Vicente Joaquín Osorio de Moscoso (1744-1816), marqués de Astorga, printed label pasted to foot of AA2 “Biblioteca del excmo. Señor Marques de Astorga”, sale, Delbergue-Cormont, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de son excellence le Marquis d’Astorga, Paris, 31 May-4 June 1870, lot 781. acquisition: Purchased in 2001 from H.P. Kraus, New York. references: VD16 B 9087

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