Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part V

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Nausea, De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio

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A volume containing grammatical and educational works, by or edited by FRIEDRICH NAUSEA, in a presentation binding to Cardinal Campeggio, comprising:


(1) NAUSEA, FRIEDRICH. Foederici Nausea Blancicampani eximii iurisconsulti, atque philosophi De principiis dialectices Gorgias. Eiusdem Nauseae quaedam ad oratione deliberativi atque demonstrativi generis componendas selecta. (Venice: Lorenzo Lorio, 1523)


(2) NAUSEA, FRIEDRICH. Clementi septimo, pont. max. devota Foederici Nauseae Blancicampiani supplicato. [Venice: Lorenzo Lorio, ca 1523], unrecorded


(3) PROBUS, MARCUS VALERIUS. Valerius Probus grammaticus celeberrimus De literis Romanorum interpretandis, deque Romanorum civium, eorumque magistratuum nominibus, pronominibus, cognominibus. Abbreviaturis item literisque singularibus in iure civili, legibus, plebiscitis, actionibus, aedictis perpetuis, ponderibus, numeris, aliisque quibusdam scitu dignissimis. Uniuersa & singula per F. Nauseam Blancicampianum eximium iurisconsultum docte & exacte recognita. (Venice: Lorenzo Lorio, October 1523)


(4) NAUSEA, FRIEDRICH. Prudentissima Foederici Nauseae Blancicampiani Franci orientalis de puero litteris instituendo consilia. (Venice: Giorgio Rusconi, 1521)


(5) NAUSEA, FRIEDRICH. Disticha Foederici Nauseae Blancicampiani Franci orientalis, in elegantissima L. Coelij Lactantij Firmiani Christianorum disertissimi, opera. Eiusdem F. Nauseae perspicacissima ad Georgium Sunnensteiner epistola, qua Aponi Patavinarum thermarum, et aliorum hoc genus fontium sua sponte excalescentium rationes redduntur. (Venice: Giorgio Rusconi, 1521)


(6) LILY, WILLIAM. De octo orationis partium constructione opusculum tum ingeniosum, in primis, tum mira brevitate copiosum. Erasmo Roterodamo authore. Foederici Nauseae Blancicampani, eruditissima in id opusculum scholia. (Venice: Gregorio de Gregori, 6 August 1522)


A presentation binding offered by Friedrich Nausea (1496-1552) to his patron Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggi, Archbishop of Bologna and papal legate in Germany. After studying law in Pavia, Nausea was employed as secretary to Cardinal Campeggi, in which capacity he attended the Diet of Nuremberg and the Regensburg Convention, both held in 1524. He later became bishop of Vienna and sought reconciliation with Protestants.


For another binding made for Cardinal Campeggi, see lot 1000.

6 works in one volume, 8vo (155 x 100mm). (1) Roman, Italic and Greek types, 30 lines plus headline. collation: a-g8 h10: 66 leaves. Title within woodcut border, woodcut initials, full-page woodcut device at end. (2) Roman and Greek types, 31 lines. collation: a8: 8 leaves. Title within same woodcut border. (3) Roman type, 30 lines. collation: a–e4: 20 leaves. Small woodcut device on title. (4) Roman and italic types, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A–H8: 64 leaves (last leaf blank). Title within decorative woodcut border, printer’s device at end. (5) Roman and italic types, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A-D8: 32 leaves. Title within decorative woodcut border, printer’s device at end. (Last leaf with small hole.) (6) Roman and italic types, 30 lines. collation: a–g8: 56 leaves. Title within ornithological woodcut border. (Erasmus's name obscured on title-page and inked over in preliminaries.)


binding: Contemporary Venetian dark brown morocco by the Mendoza Binder (165 x 112 mm), frame of blind and gilt fillets with a flower stamp at the centre of each side, gilt fleuron in corners, lettered on upper cover REVERENDISS./CARD.LAVR.CA/MP., spine with blind fillet decoration, stubs from four pairs of ties, edges gilt and gauffered, lettered "Federici Nause" in ink on tail-edge. (Ends of spine repaired, joints repaired and cracked.)


provenance: Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggi (1474-1539), name lettered on upper cover, most likely a presentation copy from Nausea — Henri, Comte Chandon de Briailles (1898-1937), booklabel — François, Comte Chandon de Briailles (1892-1953), sale, Maurice Rheims & Jacqueline Vidal-Mégret, Bibliothèque de M. le Comte C. de X… Précieuses reliures armoriées ou ornées XVIe et XVIIe siècles; Manuscrits, Paris, 2-3 December 1954, lot 218 ("On lit sur le premier plat: Reverendiss. Card. Laur. Camp. Exemplaire de dédicace au Cardinal Laurent Campeggi…"). acquisition: Purchased in 1993 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: (1) Edit16 47079; USTC 844329; (2) not found in the standard bibliographies; (3) Edit16 47514; USTC 851406; (4) Edit16 30053; USTC 844336; (5) Edit16 47080; USTC 844330; (6) Edit 16 29670; USTC 838188; Sander 2595

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