Two rare and unique postincunabula editions (the 1st printed for Jacobus Franciscus Junta, the 2nd by Theodoric Martens), bound in 1 volume in-8° in an early 16th Century Flemish panel-stamped binding by Jacob Clercx.
Estimation :
1000 / 1200
Description
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).
(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.).
QSDF 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 1st 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 Oud-Vlaamsche kunst. Catalogue V. Antwerp, 1930, nrs 9, 10 (idem); # Boekbanden uit vijf eeuwen. Catalogue. Ghent, 1961, 141 (by Gheert Clercx).
IHFZ Réunion de 2 post-incunables humanistes, l'un imprimé par Jacobus Franciscus Junta (1519) et l'autre par Thierry Martens (1524). Dans une reliure flamande en veau estampé à froid de l'ép. (2 plaques et 1 frise) signée Jacob Clercx (coiffe sup. manque, mors part. fendus, frottée avec petits manques aux bords du plat inf. sinon bon état).
(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.).
QSDF 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 1st 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 Oud-Vlaamsche kunst. Catalogue V. Antwerp, 1930, nrs 9, 10 (idem); # Boekbanden uit vijf eeuwen. Catalogue. Ghent, 1961, 141 (by Gheert Clercx).
IHFZ Réunion de 2 post-incunables humanistes, l'un imprimé par Jacobus Franciscus Junta (1519) et l'autre par Thierry Martens (1524). Dans une reliure flamande en veau estampé à froid de l'ép. (2 plaques et 1 frise) signée Jacob Clercx (coiffe sup. manque, mors part. fendus, frottée avec petits manques aux bords du plat inf. sinon bon état).
