Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V
Horatius, Opera, Basel, 1580, Parisian binding of brown morocco gilt for Bartolomeo Cenami
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HORATIUS FLACCUS, QUINTUS. Quincti Horatii Flacci Venusini, poetae lyrici elegantiss. opera: grammaticorum XL. tam antiquiss. quàm neotericorum partim iustis commentariis, partim succinctis annotationibus, singulari studio, & amplissimis sumptibus in unum corpus collectis, illustrata: variisque ac vetustissimis exemplaribus collata, & menda in iisdem sublata: quorum auth. nomina & ordinem sequens pagina demonstrabit: iam pridem in studiosae iuventutis gratiam et utilitatem post Herculeos labores edita: cum gemino indice rerum, verborum ac sententiarum locupletissimo. Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1580
A fine Parisian binding made for the Italian merchant and banker Bartolomeo Cenami (1556-1611). The title-page is inscribed by Francesco Maria Conti who owned two other Cenami bindings.
For more information on the Cenami library, see lot 1014 (Aristotle), and for two other volumes from the library, see lots 1231 (Vegetius) and 1237 (Vergil).
Folio (343 x 197 mm). Roman, italic, and Greek type: 68 lines plus headline. collation: +6 ++6 a-c6 A-Z6 Aa-Zz6 AA-ZZ6 AAa-ZZz6 AAaa-DDdd6: 606 leaves. Woodcut devices to title-page and verso of final leaf, woodcut initials. (Some leaves heavily dampstained, some leaves slightly wormed at inner margin, small rust-hole to YY2.)
binding: Contemporary Parisian brown morocco gilt (348 x 216 mm), plausibly by the Royal Binder, Clovis Ève, for a member of the Cenami family (probably Bartolomeo Cenami), leafy oval centrepiece surrounding a small lion stamp [Olivier 1860 fer 3, listed as an unidentified owner], matching leafy cornerpieces incorporating a small head stamp within a cartouche, two frames of gilt fillets, spine with compartments framed with gilt fillets and containing small lion, flower or leaf stamps, title lettered in second compartment, gilt edges, stubs from two pairs of ties. (Spine ends wormed, some marks to lower board, extremities slightly rubbed.)
provenance: Bartolomeo (Barthélémy) Cenami (1556-1611), arms on binding, and washed inscription "Dello Studio di Casa Cenami" — Francesco Maria Conti, ownership inscription on title-page — Giovanni Pietro Imperiali, Nuovo catalogo di libri diversi della libreria dell' Eccellentissima Casa Conti (Rome: Antonio Fulgoni, 1792), p.93 — Conte Lelio Orsetti [Mostra storica della legatura artistica in Palazzo Pitti (Florence 1922), no. 198 ("Conte Lelio Orsetti, Lucca")] — Ader Picard Tajan, Précieux livres & manuscrits provenant des Successions Legueltel et à divers amateurs, 14 November 1979, lot 67. acquisition: Purchased in 1990 from Librairie Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget, Chartres. references: USTC 689469; VD16 H 4874