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314 – (Humanisme) -
Two rare postincunabula editions (the 1
st
printed for
Jacobus Franciscus Junta, the 2nd by Theodoric Martens), bound in 1 volume
in-8° in an early 16
th
Century Flemish panel-stamped binding by Jacob Clercx.
Bound by JACOB CLERCX : calf, boards (16,4 x 11 cm) with 2 blind stamped panels (7,7 x 4,7 cm) figuring
animals enclosed within the curves of a vine branch (dog, rabbit, dragon; deer, eagle, cattle) within a border
with Latin text ("Ligat[us] per man[us] Jacobi clercx // qui petit a malis // erui et semper // protegi per manus
domini") and separated by a frieze (7,7 x 2 cm) figuring 4 dancers and a piper, raised spine (slightly rubbed,
headband lacking, corners dulled, hinges partly split, fragmentary lack of leather at edges of second board,
traces of ribbons but still well preserved design).
Est.
:
1.000/ 1.200 €
(1). CHAMPIER, Symphorien .- Que in hoc
opusculo habentur. Duellum epistolare : Gallie
& Italie antiquitates summatum complectens.
Tropheum
Christianissimi
galliarum
regis
Francisci [...]. Item complures illustrium virorum
epistole [...]. (Veneti [Lyon ?], per Joanne[m]
Phiroben & Joannem Divineur sumptibus Jacobi
Fra[n]cisci Deionta [Junta/Giunta], anno a virginis
partu. 1519. die decima octobris). [96] lvs (small
part of lower corner of m8 torn off without lack of
text). Collection of 37 letters on French history and
Italian culture by the Lyonese physical doctor and
humanist Champier (1474-1539), a prolific author
and compiler with nearly 50 titles to his credit. His
most important writings were related to medicine,
pharmacy, philosophy and occultism, theology,
history and poetry. Contains also a laudatory poem
on Francis I and a list of classic authors consulted
by Champier. Large woodcut on the last leaf
figuring the author with his patron and his wife kneeled in prayer. # Adams 1323; # Brunet
I-1768/69; # Contemporaries of Erasmus I-291/292; # Jodogne, P.- "La correspondance
de Symphorien Champier avec Jérôme de Pavie dans le "Duellum epistolare", in The
Late Middle Ages and the dawn of Humanism outside Italy. G. Verbeke & J. Ijsewijn edit.
Medievalia Lovaniensia Series I. Studia I. Louvain, The Hague, 1972, pp. 44-56; # not in
Renouard, Machiels, STC Italian, Soltész.
(2). BARLANDUS, Hadrianus.- Dialogi XLII. ad profligandam è scholis barbariem utilissimi.
Lovanii, apud Theodericu[m] Martinu[m], 1524. Mense martio. [40] lvs. Pedagogical
publication modelled on Erasmus "Dialogi" and dedicated to Charles of Croy by Adrianus
van Baarland (1486-1538), theologian and professor in philosophy, philology and history
at the University and at the "Collegium Trilinguae" of Louvain. From Martens' second
Louvain printing shop (1512-1529). Typographical title with large ornamental woodcut
borders figuring grotesques and printer's mark. # Nijhoff-Kronenberg 2360; Van Iseghem
194; Heireman M239; Adam & Vanautegaerden 256; # BB I-148; # Machiels 102;
# Contemporaries of Erasmus I-95/96; # not in Adams nor Soltész.
▲ Provenance : Christophorus Malderus (handwritten annot.); Johannes de Nil (id.);
Fratres minores Recollectorum Iprensis (id.); Vervisch (id.).
●Only binding known of this type with those 2 panels in combination with the frieze of dancers
and signed by Jacob Clercx de Geel from Antwerp, active from c. 1510-1515 onwards
and attested in Antwerp archives in 1537. He was succeeded by his son Gheert who was
married to Ortelius' sister Anna Ortels, both attested in an Antwerp scabinal act from 1543.
Gheert used the same panel but after having erased the 1
st
name of his father. In the same
period, Jan Tys from Mechelen used a panel with the same design and the same textborder
but with his own name. # Exposition de reliures. Catalogue. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale,
1930, n° 192 (Jan Tys); # Goldschmidt.- Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings 104 (same
panel with the same surrounding text but frieze with 4 animals); # Tentoonstelling van
16
de
eeuwse drukken