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(1516). MANTUAN (Baptiste). AD MORTALIUM OBLECTATIONEM AUCTORIS EFFIGIEM HUIC DIVINO OPERI. ULTIMA PARS OPERIS. Lyon, impressa solertia Stephani de Basignana, in officina Bernard Lescuyer, June 1516. In-8 of 126 leaves, light calf, boards decorated with multiple gilt and cold fillets with a frame decorated with a chain of linked tassels with repeated gilt "eternal knot" motifs in the center, double hot and cold framing, gilt and chased edges, modern slipcase (period binding). RARISSIVE PRODUCTION BY ETIENNE DE BASIGNANA, a Carmelite monk and remarkable typographer who printed only 2 books: a book of hours and, for Bernard Lescuyer, the works of Mantuan, general of his order. Spagnioli's works, made up of 2 parts that subdivide themselves, could be sold separately, as Brunet indicates. This copy includes the "De Sacris Diebus", which is in its original edition. The printing of this volume rivals that of the greatest typographers. The title, printed in red and black, is adorned with the effigy of Baptiste Mantuan. "This is one of the earliest examples of the use of portraiture in book illustration" (Brun). The last leaf is decorated with the arms of Cardinal de Gonzague. Title browned, wormholes repaired, small well-executed repairs to a few leaves, second board almost detached, endpapers replaced, quire d, and q8 slightly wormed and almost unbound. Interesting Italian binding whose combination of the 2 binding motifs seems very unusual according to Goldschmidt (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, 1928, I, p. 226). From the libraries of Carolus Hippolitus Tedeschius (contemporary signature on blank q7). and Michel Wittock with his bookplate. (Baudrier II, 3-10) (USTC 155285) (Brunet III, 1375) (Brun, p. 253).
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(1516). MANTUAN (Baptiste). AD MORTALIUM OBLECTATIONEM AUCTORIS EFFIGIEM HUIC DIVINO OPERI. ULTIMA PARS OPERIS. Lyon, impressa solertia Stephani de Basignana, in officina Bernard Lescuyer, June 1516. In-8 of 126 leaves, light calf, boards decorated with multiple gilt and cold fillets with a frame decorated with a chain of linked tassels with repeated gilt "eternal knot" motifs in the center, double hot and cold framing, gilt and chased edges, modern slipcase (period binding). RARISSIVE PRODUCTION BY ETIENNE DE BASIGNANA, a Carmelite monk and remarkable typographer who printed only 2 books: a book of hours and, for Bernard Lescuyer, the works of Mantuan, general of his order. Spagnioli's works, made up of 2 parts that subdivide themselves, could be sold separately, as Brunet indicates. This copy includes the "De Sacris Diebus", which is in its original edition. The printing of this volume rivals that of the greatest typographers. The title, printed in red and black, is adorned with the effigy of Baptiste Mantuan. "This is one of the earliest examples of the use of portraiture in book illustration" (Brun). The last leaf is decorated with the arms of Cardinal de Gonzague. Title browned, wormholes repaired, small well-executed repairs to a few leaves, second board almost detached, endpapers replaced, quire d, and q8 slightly wormed and almost unbound. Interesting Italian binding whose combination of the 2 binding motifs seems very unusual according to Goldschmidt (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, 1928, I, p. 226). From the libraries of Carolus Hippolitus Tedeschius (contemporary signature on blank q7). and Michel Wittock with his bookplate. (Baudrier II, 3-10) (USTC 155285) (Brunet III, 1375) (Brun, p. 253).
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