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TORRE, Alfonso de la (ca.1410-ca.1460). Visión delectable, in Spanish. Toulouse: Johannes Parix and Stephan Cleblat, 1489.
Chancery 2° (274 x 199mm). Collation: a-m8 n6 (a1 title, a2r text within woodcut border, n6r colophon, printer's device, n6v blank). 102 leaves. 36 lines and headline with printed foliation. Type: 4:111G, 5:98G, 76?G. 22 woodcuts from 16 blocks, 2 of which were altered to suit different contexts, 4-piece woodcut border on first text page, 2 large woodcut white-vine initials, 3-4-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter. (Occasional light staining, lower blank corners of final 5 leaves discreetly repaired, first leaf rehinged.) 17th-century vellum, later endpapers, modern morocco-backed box. Provenance: 16th-century marginal annotations (very slightly trimmed).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, following editions published in Catalan at Barcelona in 1484, and in Castilian at Burgos about 1485. The Visión delectable, written about 1440, is a compendium of medieval knowledge within an allegorical framework. It deals with the seven liberal arts and the higher studies of natural and moral philosophy and theology. Dependent on Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia and the works of Maimonides, Arabic scientists, Martianus Capella and Alain de Lille (from whence it derives much of its allegory), the Visión continued to be read and to exert influence on Spanish literature through the Golden Age.
Johann Parix, of Heidelberg, was the second printer at Toulouse, working first in partnership with that city's first printer, Henricus Turner. Having printed primarily legal and philosophical works in the early 1480s, Parix appeared again after a 6-year hiatus to work in partnership with Stephan Cleblat. Together they printed four works in Spanish illustrated with woodcuts. This represents a clear change of direction in Parix's marketing strategy, turning away from the university at Lyons with its famous legal faculty, and toward Spain across the Pyrenees. The elaborate woodcut border was used in Parix and Cleblat's Histoire de Mélusine, but the woodcuts are known only in this edition. Several of them were altered during the print run to suit different contexts later in the work, i.e. the compass carried by Geometria on fo. XVr has been excised for use on XIXr.
All early Toulouse imprints are rare on the market, especially the illustrated books printed by Parix and Cleblat; according to BAR and ABPC no copy of the Visión delectable has appeared at auction since 1902 when records began. The present copy is particularly desirable as it is COMPLETE with the title-page, which, because of its absence, was unknown to Hain, BMC and Palau. It is also SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER than the British Library copy, which measures 260 x 185mm. H 15556; BMC VIII, 356 (IB. 42465); Goff T-389; Oates 3263; Palau 335322.
Chancery 2° (274 x 199mm). Collation: a-m8 n6 (a1 title, a2r text within woodcut border, n6r colophon, printer's device, n6v blank). 102 leaves. 36 lines and headline with printed foliation. Type: 4:111G, 5:98G, 76?G. 22 woodcuts from 16 blocks, 2 of which were altered to suit different contexts, 4-piece woodcut border on first text page, 2 large woodcut white-vine initials, 3-4-line initial spaces, most with printed guide-letter. (Occasional light staining, lower blank corners of final 5 leaves discreetly repaired, first leaf rehinged.) 17th-century vellum, later endpapers, modern morocco-backed box. Provenance: 16th-century marginal annotations (very slightly trimmed).
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, following editions published in Catalan at Barcelona in 1484, and in Castilian at Burgos about 1485. The Visión delectable, written about 1440, is a compendium of medieval knowledge within an allegorical framework. It deals with the seven liberal arts and the higher studies of natural and moral philosophy and theology. Dependent on Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia and the works of Maimonides, Arabic scientists, Martianus Capella and Alain de Lille (from whence it derives much of its allegory), the Visión continued to be read and to exert influence on Spanish literature through the Golden Age.
Johann Parix, of Heidelberg, was the second printer at Toulouse, working first in partnership with that city's first printer, Henricus Turner. Having printed primarily legal and philosophical works in the early 1480s, Parix appeared again after a 6-year hiatus to work in partnership with Stephan Cleblat. Together they printed four works in Spanish illustrated with woodcuts. This represents a clear change of direction in Parix's marketing strategy, turning away from the university at Lyons with its famous legal faculty, and toward Spain across the Pyrenees. The elaborate woodcut border was used in Parix and Cleblat's Histoire de Mélusine, but the woodcuts are known only in this edition. Several of them were altered during the print run to suit different contexts later in the work, i.e. the compass carried by Geometria on fo. XVr has been excised for use on XIXr.
All early Toulouse imprints are rare on the market, especially the illustrated books printed by Parix and Cleblat; according to BAR and ABPC no copy of the Visión delectable has appeared at auction since 1902 when records began. The present copy is particularly desirable as it is COMPLETE with the title-page, which, because of its absence, was unknown to Hain, BMC and Palau. It is also SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER than the British Library copy, which measures 260 x 185mm. H 15556; BMC VIII, 356 (IB. 42465); Goff T-389; Oates 3263; Palau 335322.