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EXPLORE THE WORLD OF FINE WINE | FERRARI TRENTO, TRENTO, ITALY

EXPLORE THE WORLD OF FINE WINE | FERRARI TRENTO, TRENTO, ITALY 1 Magnum of Giulio Ferrari Limited Edition 2002 from the Archivio di Famiglia together with a private visit and tasting followed by a lunch at Michelin-starred restaurant, Locanda Margon, for 2 guests WINE: 1 Magnum of Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore, Trentodoc 2002 The wine included in this lot is lying at Ferrari Trento, Italy, to be collected by the winning bidder from Ferrari Trento at the time of the visit. Offered Duty Paid with VAT on the Hammer Price. Sotheby's will provide the buyer with the contact details of the donor to arrange collection / organisation of the experience. EXPERIENCE: This lot includes a private visit to the Ferrari Trento winery, led by Marcello Lunelli, Ferrari Trento’s vice-president, a guided tasting at Villa Margon, the sixteenth-century mansion and Gruppo Lunelli’s hospitality centre, and lunch at Michelin-starred restaurant Locanda Margon, for 2 guests. This experience to take place at a mutually agreed date before 31st December 2026. Accommodation, flights and transport to and from Ferrari Trento not included. Please note that any attendees under the age of 18 may attend the tasting and lunch but cannot be served wine. MORE ABOUT THIS LOT: Ferrari Trento offers an exclusive and immersive experience, “del Bello e del Buono”, for 2 guests at Ferrari Trento, beginning with a private tour of the winery led by Marcello Lunelli, Ferrari Trento’s Vice President. The journey continues at Villa Margon, the sixteenth-century mansion and Gruppo Lunelli’s hospitality centre, where guests will enjoy a guided tasting of a selection of Ferrari’s finest Trentodoc sparkling wines, showcasing the elegance and the enduring excellence of the Trentino winery. As the day unfolds, a visit to the Alto Margon family vineyard offers the chance to discover the land where Ferrari Trentodoc wines are born. To complete the experience, a gourmet lunch is served at Locanda Margon, Gruppo Lunelli's Michelin-starred restaurant, where the “Passione e Bollicine” menu will be served. A Giulio Ferrari Limited Edition Magnum 2002 bottle from the Archivio di Famiglia will be collected at the end of the day. Christy Canterbury MW, "The Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore bottling is consistently Italy's most compelling metodo classico sparkling wine. Its Chardonnay comes from a high-altitude vineyard in the Dolomites that is secluded by a pristine, untouched forest. A minimum of ten years of aging on the lees delivers rapturous complexity in the vintages in which it is made—only the best. Having aged over two decades in the historic Ferrari cellars, this 2002 is ready to deliver an otherworldly experience." Website: https://www.ferraritrento.com/en/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ferrari-trento/posts/?feedView=all Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ferraritrento/ This lot is subject to non-refundable VAT @20% on the Hammer Price, Buyer's Premium and Overhead Premium. The buyer is solely responsible for determining the legality and the tax/duty consequences of having the goods delivered to the desired destination. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT and/or sales tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

View 1 of Lot 37: Explore the World of Fine Wine | Ferrari Trento, Trento, Italy | 1 Magnum of Giulio Ferrari Limited Edition 2002 from the Archivio di Famiglia together with a private visit and tasting followed by a lunch at Michelin-starred restaurant, Locanda Margon, for 2 guests

explore the world of fine wine | ferrari trento, trento, italy | 1 magnum of giulio ferrari limited edition 2002 from the archivio di famiglia together with a private visit and tasting followed by a lunch at michelin-starred restaurant, locanda margon, for 2 guests

<ul><li>Single ownership and less than 850 miles from new.</li><li>Built to Hong Kong specifications, road registered, and kept in the UK since PDI.</li><li>Atelier specification featuring Rosso Corsa paintwork with Blu Scozia extended racing livery with matte blue exterior carbon fibre.</li><li>Numerous optional extras including suspension lift and parking camera.</li><li>Regularly serviced by H.R. Owen Ferrari, last service in December 2024.</li><li>Asking £409,995 GBP.</li></ul> Configured by the car’s current and original owner at the factory, this 488 Pista Spider boasts a striking colour combination of Ferrari’s traditional Rosso Corsa paintwork alongside a Blu Scozia racing livery. As one would expect for any Ferrari of this era, the car boasts a host of special options and optional extras. Perhaps the most notable options are Pista Spider’s external carbon fibre options (front air vents, door sills, and front flaps), all finished in matte blue carbon fibre. This theme is continued to the interior, trimmed in Blu Medio Alcantara alongside contrasting black seat inserts with cavallinos stitched on the headrests in Cuoio Sella, and black carbon fibre trim. Further to this, the car is equipped with a number of important options, including the Adaptive Frontlight System, suspension lifter, black tailpipe tips, heat-insulating windscreen, the high-emotion low-emission system, parking camera, 20” forged dark painted wheels, and carbon fibre racing seats (size medium). As a resident of both Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, the allocation for this 488 Pista Spider was awarded by the owner’s dealer, Blackbird Concessionaires in Hong Kong. Immediately following PDI and delivery of the car in Hong Kong, it was shipped to his home in the United Kingdom, where it has remained ever since. Since delivery, the car has always been maintained by H.R. Owen Ferrari in London, with its last service having been carried out in December of 2024. With factory customization all the rage by the time of the 488 Pista Spider’s introduction, it makes perfect sense that Ferrari’s top clients were beginning to push the boundaries of how their new car could be personalized, with all seeking to make their new cars truly unique. Offered here is one such car. In addition to its striking colour combination and single-owner status, it has been driven just 808 miles from new at the time of cataloguing, making for an altogether fabulous offering.

488 Pista Spider

<ul><li>The ultimate “super car” of its day, a wonderfully balanced driving experience combined with stunningly beautiful bodywork.</li><li>One of just 77 SWB Berlinettas constructed in steel-bodied LHD form.</li><li>Desirable late-production example delivered new to Ferrari agents Martinelli &amp; Sonvico of Lugano, Switzerland in the distinctive color scheme of Bianco Polo Park with Rosso leather interior; believed to be the only steel example delivered new in this color combination.</li><li>Retained by only three careful UK-based owners between 1973 and today.</li><li>Restored to its current striking Blu Notte Metallizato over rosso interior and maintained to Concours standard during current ownership by the UK’s top Specialists with over £350,000 in receipts.</li><li>Class winner at the 2014 Salon Privé Concours d’Elegance and winner of Best of Show at the 2015 Ferrari Owners Club Concours.</li><li>Ferrari Classiche Red Book certification, confirming its full matching-numbers chassis, body, engine, gearbox and rear axle.</li><li>Extensively documented, including copies of factory build sheets, restoration invoices and an accompanying historical report by marque expert Marcel Massini.</li><li>Further accompanied by an owner’s manual with leather pouch, tool set with leather roll, spare set of wheels and tyes as well as bespoke seat covers.</li></ul> The 250 GT Short Wheelbase, or Passo Corto, represents one of the most significant, as well as one of the most accomplished of all Ferrari Berlinetta models built, arguably occupying the same ground as the 250 GTO. Indeed, without the SWB, there may not have even been a GTO, for the former’s basic chassis and 2400mm wheelbase–shortened by 200mm relative to its predecessor, the 250 GT Tour de France–underpinned the evolutionary design of the GT Omologato, affording it the benign handling so critical to its ultimate success. Just 165 SWB chassis were constructed in both alloy and steel body form; their Tipo-539 chassis clothed in exquisite Pininfarina-penned, Scaglietti-built coachwork. Power was provided by a 250 Testa Rossa-derived Tipo-168 3-litre V-12 engine to which a four-speed gearbox was mated, while, significantly, the model was the first production Ferrari to feature four-wheel disc brakes. Available in either track-oriented Competizione or roadgoing Lusso specification, the SWB was truly a car for all seasons; one equally as at home on the winding roads of the Amalfi Coast as at Le Mans. Ferrari constructed 90 examples in the more solid steel body form which were ideally equipped to become the most impressive road-going “super car” of their day, with only 77 of those being built in LHD configuration; the remaining 75 being alloy-skinned examples aimed principally at those for whom racing loomed large. Of course, to suggest that the origins of the SWB lay in anything other than competition is fatuous: this was assuredly a racing car capable of conversion into an exhilarating road car, rather than the other way around. Indeed, the involvement of three of the greatest Italian racing engineers of their generation–Giotto Bizzarrini, Carlo Chiti and Mauro Forghieri–from the project’s inception made Ferrari’s intentions abundantly clear. Such a potent back-room team translated into immediate results, with the SWB registering back-to-back class wins at Le Mans, consecutive outright wins in the Tourist Trophy, a class win in the Sebring 12 Hours and a hat-trick of outright victories in the gruelling Tour de France Automobile–all within a glorious three-year period between 1960 and 1962. In fact the 250 GT SWB Berlinetta is second only to the 250 GTO with nearly 250 class and overall international victories during its period racing career, placing it firmly in the pantheon of the greatest race cars to come out of Maranello. The refreshingly transparent history of this particular car, chassis number 3367 GT, begins in early 1962; its chassis having been completed at Maranello on January 10, prior to despatch to master craftsman Sergio Scaglietti’s coachworks in Modena. As a late production, second series chassis designated for completion to “Lusso” specification, the car was fitted with a steel body, albeit with an aluminium bonnet, doors and boot lid. As with other Series 2 cars, 3367 GT featured a distinctive horizontal roof vent, wider radiator grille and reprofiled rear wheel arches; the latter, on the driver’s side, accommodating the filler cap previously recessed into the boot lid on earlier cars. It appears that 3367 GT returned to Maranello some time in February or early March, for its factory build sheet states that the rear axle, engine and gearbox were completed on 20 March, 27 March and 28 March respectively, with official factory sign off eventually forthcoming on 30 March. Interestingly, the car had officially been sold to official Ferrari agents Martinelli &amp; Sonvico of Lugano, Switzerland on March 9, some three weeks prior to this, although it was evidently only delivered in early April 1962. Whether influenced by personal choice or national loyalty, the car was finished in the distinctive colour scheme of Bianco Polo Park with Rosso interior; the contrasting white and red happily coinciding with the national racing colours of Switzerland, the only steel-bodied example believed finished in this colour combination. By way of context, this was a time which may be viewed as perhaps the most exciting and successful in Ferrari’s history. Just four months prior to the start of 3367 GT’s construction, Ferrari’s Phil Hill had become the first American Formula 1 World Champion, while Ferrari had secured the Formula 1 World Constructors crown earlier in the 1961 season; a feat matched by the Scuderia in Sportscar racing with overall victory in the World Sportscar Championship. To cap dominant seasons in both disciplines, Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien had swept to victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in June in their 250 TR61; the second of six consecutive Ferrari wins at La Sarthe between 1960 and 1965. Unusually, the first owner of 3367 GT remains unknown, although it is understood that he too was either a resident of Lugano or its environs, as evidenced by the allocation of the local licence plate “TI 16300” at the point of first registration on 18 April 1962. Nevertheless, evidently the car was well used and enjoyed, for at the time of its return to Ferrari Assistenza Clienti for service on September 3 1963, its odometer displayed an impressive 25,676 kilometres; this being noted on the corresponding factory order #340 and factory delivery note #2348. After some five years in its original ownership, in June 1967 3367 GT was acquired by a Herr Heinz Frieden of nearby Balerna, Switzerland; the car’s consequent re-registration with a new licence number–“TI 76321”–indicative of its continued domicile within the Swiss canton of Ticino. From subsequent UK registration correspondence, it is understood that the car was briefly sold to Belgium in or around 1970, before passing to the prominent Italian car connoisseur and historic racer Corrado Cupellini of Bergamo, Italy circa 1972. In 1973, ownership of 3367 GT passed to successful London-based Ferrari enthusiast Peter Sugden, in whose custody it would remain, remarkably, for the next 34 years. Upon its arrival in the UK, the car still retained its original colour scheme, although over the remainder of the decade it progressed into a more sporting specification and was subsequently resprayed a more conventional shade of Rosso Chiaro as a result. That Mr. Sugden was a Director of Modena Engineering Limited–then one of the foremost Ferrari specialists in the country–doubtless facilitated such a transformation, and the car was duly fitted with numerous “Comp” features including an engine cold air scoop, carburettor velocity stacks, flared rear wheel arches, wider wheel rims and front brake cooling ducts. Additionally, its Lusso-specification bumpers were removed to give the car an altogether more aggressive appearance. It was in this form that 3367 GT appeared at the 250 GT SWB 20th Anniversary celebrations in September 1980. Appropriately, these were held in the majestic setting of Mas du Clos; the private circuit and Manoir of preeminent French Ferrari collector and SWB owner Pierre Bardinon. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Sugden exercised 3367 GT regularly on track; the burgeoning European historic racing scene offering a wealth of possibilities for such a versatile car. Of particular note were the car’s four participations in the Historic Tour de France Automobile between 1992 and 1997. During this time, preparation responsibilities were shared between marque specialists Church Green Engineering, Bob Houghton Ltd. and Terry Hoyle Engineering Ltd., with scant regard as to their cost. After more than three decades of ownership, in 2007 Mr. Sugden took the difficult decision to part with 3367 GT, whereupon it subsequently joined another well-known British collection. Following initial minor bodywork modifications by RS Panels–including the addition of an external fuel filler cap–3367 GT returned to GTO engineering where its engine, gearbox, rear axle, suspension and steering were all rebuilt. Additionally, it was re-trimmed in blue leather by O’Rourke Coachtrimmers and underwent a colour change to Grigio Argento. Upon completion, it was used enthusiastically by its new owner; a further three participations in the Tour Auto (née Tour de France Automobile) forming the focal point of his competitive exploits. In 2012, custody of 3367 GT passed to one of the leading UK Ferrari collections – well known for an unwavering attention to detail and in whose care it has since been cherished and meticulously returned to road specification. Renowned craftsmen Bodylines of Olney attended to the car’s bodywork in early 2013–which included reprofiling both rear wheelarches to correct “narrow” specification, the removal of the front cooling ducts and the reinstatement of the original fuel filler cap and lid–while its bumpers were also re-conditioned and re-fitted for the first time in more than three decades. As a keen Concours entrant, the owner entrusted 3367 GT to Medcalf &amp; Company for a respray in the distinguished colour of Blu Notte Metallizato, and to O’Rourke Coachtrimmers for a full re-trim in red Connolly leather; some £26,000 being expensed in these areas alone. At this juncture, the opportunity was also taken to rebuild the car’s engine, gearbox, back axle, suspension and brakes; this being performed in a collaborative effort between leading Ferrari specialists Barkaways and Riverside Performance Engineering at a cost of a further £50,000. Gratifyingly, upon the completion of its restoration, 3367 GT was awarded the coveted Ferrari Classiche certification in January 2014, which significantly noted the retention of its original chassis, body, engine, gearbox and rear axle. The car’s first ever Concours appearance was marked by a class win in the prestigious Salon Privé Concours at Syon Park in September 2014, while subsequent appearances at Villa d’Este and at the Ferrari Owners Club Concours in 2015 have proved similarly fruitful; the latter yielding the coveted Best in Show award. Most recently exhibited at the exclusive Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court in 2019, 3367 GT has since been featured in the August/ September 2019 edition of Cavallino magazine and has continued to be enjoyed privately by its owner. As if to underline his continued commitment to exacting maintenance, it has recently benefitted from the fitment of a new exhaust, a comprehensive brake overhaul and a further gearbox rebuild by Bob Houghton–at a combined cost of over £33,000–while a further ‘refurbishment’ respray in Blu Notte Metallizato was undertaken in May 2024 by highly regarded expert Ross Packard Paintwork at a cost of some £25,728. So exacting are this owner’s standards and attention to detail, that the car has a special pair of fully bespoke seat covers, so that no wear or discolouration can affect the Connolly hides of the seats. The owner has also furnished the car with two sets of, period correct, Borrani wheels; a slightly wider ‘driving’ set shod with Avon tyres and the car’s (standard specification) show wheels (which wear correct-type Pirelli Cinturato rubber) and are in concours ready condition. Each set even has their own respective set of spinners allocated to suit. More than six decades after its launch, the exquisite proportions, arresting performance and unparalleled versatility of the Ferrari 250 GT SWB determine it as one of the all-time great Ferraris–indeed, one of the all-time great cars. In the case of this stunningly presented example these characteristics are further enhanced by a recent and exacting “no expense spared” restoration, Concours-winning pedigree and impeccable provenance–not to mention the all-important Ferrari Classiche certification, owner’s manual and tool roll. As such, it represents one of the finest and most historically accurate SWBs to have been offered for sale in recent times. 3367 GT has most recently enjoyed such an extensive level of fastidious custodianship, that it has been referred to being in ‘drive to show’ condition – paying compliment to its all-round exquisite condition. Viewing recommended, this is without doubt a top tier example of this most coveted of Ferrari GT models.

250 GT SWB Berlinetta by Scaglietti 

Important Judaica

Folios from the first Hebrew printing of the Pentateuch.

Folios from the first Hebrew printing of the Pentateuch. While one of the very first books issued from Gutenberg’s printing press was a copy of the Latin Bible, Jews did not print the Hebrew Bible until about twelve years after Hebrew printing began, around 1469. It has been suggested that this was due to the text’s special sanctity or the wide availability of manuscript copies, but the challenge of printing the Bible with vowels (nikudot) and cantillation marks (te’amim) was likely a factor as well. The man who printed the editio princeps of the Hebrew Pentateuch was Abraham ben Hayyim, with the financial backing of the banker Joseph ben Abraham Caravita. Beginning as a printer in Ferrara in the late 1470s, Abraham ben Hayyim subsequently moved to Mantua and later Bologna, where he worked for the press established by Caravita; in a later period, he was also associated with the famed Soncino press. It was in Bologna that he issued his extraordinary edition of this most sacred of texts, complete with full vocalization and cantillation marks, making it the first successful Hebrew book to include both. The text was edited by Joseph Hayyim ben Aaron Zarfati, who in the colophon praises the printer’s skill. Another technically innovative feature of Abraham ben Hayyim’s edition was the inclusion of the traditional Aramaic translation of the text, Targum Onkelos, and the classic commentary of the great eleventh-century scholar Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi), in an integrated, tripartite page architecture with the biblical text: the Targum in a column at the outer margin and Rashi’s commentary above and below. While Rashi’s commentary had been printed before, this was the first time it appeared together with the biblical text. This printing of Rashi was later praised by the famous printer Gershom Soncino as the best version of the text. The Bologna layout, with Scripture, Targum and Rashi, set a model for subsequent editions of the Hebrew Bible. This landmark publication is often described as the most important Hebrew book ever printed. The present copy was printed on vellum rather than on paper, a very expensive and technically demanding process. Most extant copies of this edition are similarly on vellum, perhaps owing to the perceived sanctity of the text and the desire to treat it similarly to a Torah scroll, traditionally written on parchment. Another feature connecting it to the manuscript medium is the presence of hand-drawn decorative floral flourishes in red and blue marking running titles and the start of sections. Such additions were common in manuscripts and appear in many early printed works as well. Physical Description Folio (275 x 190 mm); 11 leaves printed on parchment, from the first two quires: quire i, lacking leaves 5, 6, 9, and 10; quire ii, lacking leaves 11, 17, and 18. Script and layout: biblical text in one column in square type, fully vocalized and accented; Targum in a narrow outer column; Rashi in long lines above and below, both in semi-cursive type. Headlines present. Manuscript decoration/rubrication: running titles and selected parashiyyot markers with red floral penwork; parashah incipits embellished in blue, with red flourishes marking the opening of the corresponding Targum passage and blue flourishes for Rashi. Binding: later vellum; gilt spine; all edges gilt; patterned cloth endpapers. Provenance The Chicago Theological Seminary; current owner. Literature Reference works: ISTC ib00525570; Goff Heb-18; Offenberg 13; Iakerson 19. Shimon M. Iakerson, Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York, 2005).

View 1 of Lot 65: Pentateuch (Humash), with Targum Onkelos and Rashi’s Commentary, Printed on Parchment

pentateuch (humash), with targum onkelos and rashi’s commentary, printed on parchment

Bibliotheca Brookeriana VIII

TEBALDEO, ANTONIO. Opere del Thebaldeo da Ferrara. Sonetti cclxxxiii. Dialogo I. Epistole III. Egloghe IIII. Disperata I. Capitoli XIX. Venice: Manfredo Bonelli, 12 July 1503

TEBALDEO, ANTONIO. Opere del Thebaldeo da Ferrara. Sonetti cclxxxiii. Dialogo I. Epistole III. Egloghe IIII. Disperata I. Capitoli XIX. Venice: Manfredo Bonelli, 12 July 1503 A CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN CLASSICAL MEDALLION BINDING. Stamped onto the upper cover is a bust of the Roman emperor Galba, similar to item that found on no. 19 In Hobson's census of plaquette and medallion bindings (Harvard MS Typ. 24)—the only such binding depicting Galba in the census. On the lower cover is a bust of Vespasian, similar to item no. 25 on Hobson's census. 4to (218 x 159 mm). Collation: A-L4: 44 leaves. Title-page with woodcut border and woodcut device, a few marginal annotations in an early modern hand. (Some dampstaining, mostly marginal, and slight marginal worming from H1 to end of textblock, not affecting text.) ﻿Binding: Italian classical medallion binding (223 x 166 mm), possibly Paduan, c. 1505, brown morocco over wooden boards, multiple blind fillets around sides, inner rectangle frame containing repeated blind knotwork tool flanked by multiple blind fillets, mitres to outer corners, blind rosettes in open space between frames, circular punch at inner corners, in centre of upper cover a medallion portrait of Roman emperor Galba laureate, draped bust to right, lettered “IMP SER GALBA AVG TR P” beaded border, round 34 mm, taken from a sestertius of Galba, in centre of lower cover portrait medallion of Vespasian, laureate, draped bust to right lettered “CAESAR(?) VESPASIAN AVG PM TP PP COS III”, taken from a sesterius of Vespasian, round 30 mm, above and below each medallion an ornate lozenge with circle punches at each outer angle, spine with three bands undecorated, plain edges. (Endleaves renewed.) Provenance: Giuseppe Cavalieri (1834-1918), Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de M. Giuseppe Cavalieri à Ferrara (Florence 1908), p. 439, no. 1683—Libreria Ulrich Hoepli catalogue, C ento Libri Preziosi (1922), item no. 95—Baptiste Galanti, Paris (cited in De Marinis I, no. 448). Acquisition: Purchased in 2012 from Pregliasco/Philobiblon, New York. References: USTC 764124 (listing Cambridge University Library copy only); Edit16 CNCE 76129 (locating no copies in Italy); De Marinis I, no. 448, pl. LXXXI

View 1 of Lot 294: Tebaldeo, Opere, Venice, 1503, contemporary Italian classical medallion binding, brown morocco over wooden boards

tebaldeo, opere, venice, 1503, contemporary italian classical medallion binding, brown morocco over wooden boards

MISSAL BOX. A red morocco gilt missal box in the form of a book, for Renata di Francia, Duchess of Ferrera, Northern Italy, sixteenth-century

MISSAL BOX. A red morocco gilt missal box in the form of a book, for Renata di Francia, Duchess of Ferrera, Northern Italy, sixteenth-century 28.2 by 21.5 by 8 cm The upper and lower covers red morocco richly gilt, with two roll-tooled borders containing Greek and Latin mottos between them, the upper cover lettered “EΛΠIZΩ META TOV XPONOV” and “VITA MEA SPES ET FIDES MAGIS VNIQVAM PLVRIBVS” and the lower cover lettered “VOTO NIL LIBERALIVS SPES ALTRIX MISERVM” and “VIRTVS CLARA DOMI NABITVR ASTRIS ADERIT ET TANDEM VOCATVS IVPITER”, on both covers framing a lozenge containing a six-point star with lettering “RENEA DE FRANZA” , inside the star a carnation in a diamond ring and above and below it flaming vases, studs on both covers, one as the catch, spine with three bands, the interior of the upper cover red morocco tooled in blind, with roll-tooled outer borders, lettered “SVSTINE ET ABSTINE”, “TV DEA TV PRESENS NRO SVCCVRRE LABORI”, “PATIENTIA DVRIS IMPERAT”, “DOMINE QVID VIS?E FACERE”, inner roll-tooled border containing six-point star in blind with winged angel-heads and gilt Virgin and Child within gilt mandorla, the interior of the remainder of the box red morocco tooled in blind with roll-tooled borders and a trellis pattern containing fleur-de-lys, three sides painted gold and tooled to imitate gilt and gauffered book edges, upper joint cracking, slight rubbing and scraping to lower cover The Virgin and Child and flaming vase tools are similar but not identical to that on De Marinis II, plate CCXV (MS, Bologna, 1520). The same flaming vase tools are also found on plate CCXVII (Bologna, 1519). Renata di Francia (or Renée de France; 1510–1575), whose name is lettered on this book-form box, was Duchess of Ferrara between 1534 and 1559 through her marriage to Ercole II d’Este (1508–1559). She was the youngest surviving child of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany. Renata di Francia is perhaps best known for her support for the Protestant Reformation. She had met Calvin in 1536 and the two remained in contact. She also showed great hospitality to French suspects of heresy, such as Louis du Tillet, sheltering them from prosecution in Ferrara and other residences. Eventually, in 1554, her Catholic husband, Duke Ercole, involved the Inquisitor Ortiz, and she was condemned as a heretic. The majority of her books were burned, but some were left behind in Italy when Renata left for Montargis in the Loire Valley after the death of her husband in 1559. These then became part of the Este library. Provenance: Renata di Francia (or Renée de France), Duchess of Ferrara (1510–1575), a large part of her library left with — Este library, Ferrera — Bernard Breslauer (1918–2004), sale, Christie’s New York, 17 May 2005, lot 344 (lots 321–347 identified as the property from the estate of Dr. Bernard Breslauer). References: Domenico Fava, La biblioteca Estense nel suo sviluppo storico. Con il catalogo della mostra permanente e 10 tavole (Modena, 1925), pp. 126–129

View 1 of Lot 339: A north Italian gold-tooled and red morocco leather book-form missal box. Probably Milan, second quarter 16th century, made for Renée of France

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