![SALICETO, Guilielmus de (1210-77). De salutate corporis. - Johannes de Turrecremata 1388-1468). De salutate animae. - Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope, 1405-1464). De remedio amoris. -PIUS II (attributed to). Epitaphia varia. -Homoneae epitaphium. [The Netherlands (?Utrecht): Printer of the Speculum, not after 1472 (c.1468-69)].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06222_0185_000(122308).jpg?w=1)
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SALICETO, Guilielmus de (1210-77). De salutate corporis. - Johannes de Turrecremata 1388-1468). De salutate animae. - Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, Pope, 1405-1464). De remedio amoris. -PIUS II (attributed to). Epitaphia varia. -Homoneae epitaphium. [The Netherlands (?Utrecht): Printer of the Speculum, not after 1472 (c.1468-69)].
Chancery 2 (288 x 204mm). Collation: [110 210(10+1, 10+2) 32 (1/1r-7v Saliceto, 1/7v-2/1r Turrecremata, 2/1v-2/3r Pius II, Tractatus contra luxuriosos et lasciuos, 2/3v-4r ps-Pius II. panegyrics of Bernardus Claravellenis, Alexandreis, Bruno Carthusiensis, 2/4r-8r ps-Pius II, De laude atque epitaphiis virorum illustrium ... tractatus, 2/8v epitaphs on Homeric figures, 2/9r Homonee, 2/9v-10r epitaphs on Nevius and Pope Eugene IV, Pope Nicholas, etc., 2/10v-10+1r epygramma iocosum, serium, etc., 2/10+2r sentences of Aristotle, Augustinus, Plato, Ambrose, etc., 2/10+2v blank, 3/1r-2r Pius II De mulieribus pravis [= part of Contra luxuriosus, 3/2v Descriptio iudiciis Paridis. 24 leaves. 34-36 line. Type: 5:123G. Contemporary M.S. quiring in first two quires. Paper: double keys in 1/1 and possibly 1/6, 7, and 8; anchor in 1/2, 2/1, y with strongly curved trefoil tail in 2/3, 4, 5 and 9; a simpler y with trefoil tail in 2/10+1, 10+2, another y in 3/2; all of these have been found in other copies of the Saliceto edition. (Some light spotting and staining, slight weakness and fraying at fore-margin.) 18th-century russia-backed marbled-paper boards, the spine lettered 'Aurea Legenda &c' (lightly rubbed). Provenance: one or two contemporary marginal annotations; 'The Golden Legend' written in an 18th-century hand and crossed through; William Charles De Meuron, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943, armorial bookplate).
AN UNRECORDED COPY OF AN IMPORTANT DUTCH PROTOTYPOGRAPHICAL EDITION. While no printed dates occur in any editions of Dutch prototypography, it is certain that they pre-date the first named and dated presses in the Netherlands of 1473, those of Johannes de Westfalia and Thierry Martens at Alost, and Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt at Utrecht. The Saliceto-Pontanus editions, of which the present copy is a variant issue, are traditionally dated 'not afer 1472' on the basis of inscriptions in copies at Darmstadt and The Hague. The Darmstadt inscription is dated 1472, while the copy at The Hague was inscribed by Conrad du Moulin as abbot of St. Jacques at Lige, a position he held from 1471 to 1474. These editions, or at least one issue of the Saliceto, may be dated earlier, to 1468-69, the date assigned by Gerard Piccard to the copy at Stuttgart on the basis of paper evidence (cf. Amelung).
These earliest products of the printing press in the Netherlands have attracted a great deal of attention, not least owing to the bogus assertion that they were printed by Coster in the Netherlands before Gutenberg's invention at Mainz, yet much remains little understood. The present volume, containing variant page-settings and imposition, sheds further light on one shop, known as 'The Printer of the Speculum' and in particular on the method of simultaneous production of separate treatises combined into variant issues.
The present Fitzwilliam copy contains texts printed in editions of both Saliceto and Pontanus assigned to the 'Printer of the Speculum', but rather than being a mere composite volume, its variants and imposition show that it is a separate issue. It has long been recognised that the Saliceto and Pontanus editions are closely related, since they share 2 formes, comprising 4 page-settings, in all copies, but it appears that in fact the texts contained in these editions, with the exception perhaps of the Pontanus itself, were issued and available in a variety of combinations. The known combinations of the texts are:
1) Pontanus, Pius II, De mulieribus pravis, ps-Pius II, Epitaphs
2) Saliceto, Turrecremata, Pius II Contra luxuriosos et lascivos (= De mulieribus pravis), Pius II Pro laude Homeri, Pindarus Thebanus, Iliados epitome
3) Saliceto, Turrecremata, Pius II De mulieribus pravis, ps-Pius II, Epitaphs
4) Pindarus Thebanus, Iliados epitome
The Fitzwilliam copy belongs to the third group, within which are a variety of impositions; the Stuttgart and Fitzwilliam copies appear to be identical. The page-settings for the Saliceto-Turrecremata texts are identical in both groups 2 and 3, except for the presence or absence of one line at the bottom of the first text and its conjugate (absent from 1/1r.10v in the Fitzwilliam copy). Because of the difference in imposition between copies, all of the pages of this group must have been standing in type over a period of time, thereby demanding a quantity of type extraordinary for the 1460s-1470s. Furthermore, blocks of set type were rearranged and combined to create new page-settings. For instance, fo. 21r in the Fitzwilliam/Stuttgart copies contains the first lines from fo.58r and the final 32 lines from fo.59r in the British Library Pontanus.
The production of separate tracts, enabling a purchaser to pick and choose various combinations to meet his or her requirements or desires, has wide precedent in both manuscript and early printed books; Gnther Zainer's production of nine devotional tracts at Augsburg, one of which is Thomas Kempis's Imitatio Christi, is but one printed example. This same impulse is clearly behind the production of the tracts in the Saliceto-Pontanus editions. The individual tracts, however, rather than being printed in separate quires and treated as separate units, have been reimposed for each issue, requiring, as noted above, a number of pages standing in type over time. A fragment of a contents leaf listing the Pontanus and other tracts not now known survives, it also suggests that other subsidiary tracts may have joined or have been intended to join the Pontanus. It is also strongly reminiscent of the contents leaf issued by Zainer for his multi-tract edition mentioned above, furthering suggesting that these Pontanus-Saliceto tracts were considered as separate entities. (Cf. Lotte Hellinga, 'Max Joseph Husung and his discovery of a fragment of Dutch early printing,' Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, vol. 29: Inkunabel- und Einbandkunde, Beitrge des Symposions zu Ehren von Max Joseph Husung am 17. und 18. Mai 1995 in Helmstedt, Wiesbaden: 1996, pp.59-69.)
The last two leaves, forming a single quire, are here bound at the end; in the Stuttgart copy they also form a single quire but are inserted after the second leaf of the second quire. The text on these leaves is found in various positions in other copies, usually comprising either a single quire or two single leaves. Please apply to the department for a more detailed analysis of this copy.
ALL EXAMPLES OF DUTCH PROTOTYPOGRAPHY ARE RARE ON THE MARKET.
Christie's wish to thank Dr. Gerard van Thienen of the Royal Library in The Hague for providing details of other copies. C 5214; Camp (II, III) 1493; Holtrop Monuments typographiques pp.33, 34; Klebs 484.1; Polain(B) 1837; Amelung, Hellinga Festschrift 59; 15me Centenaire 37a-b, 39; BMC IX, 4 (IB. 47018-9); IDL 2163.
Chancery 2 (288 x 204mm). Collation: [1
AN UNRECORDED COPY OF AN IMPORTANT DUTCH PROTOTYPOGRAPHICAL EDITION. While no printed dates occur in any editions of Dutch prototypography, it is certain that they pre-date the first named and dated presses in the Netherlands of 1473, those of Johannes de Westfalia and Thierry Martens at Alost, and Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt at Utrecht. The Saliceto-Pontanus editions, of which the present copy is a variant issue, are traditionally dated 'not afer 1472' on the basis of inscriptions in copies at Darmstadt and The Hague. The Darmstadt inscription is dated 1472, while the copy at The Hague was inscribed by Conrad du Moulin as abbot of St. Jacques at Lige, a position he held from 1471 to 1474. These editions, or at least one issue of the Saliceto, may be dated earlier, to 1468-69, the date assigned by Gerard Piccard to the copy at Stuttgart on the basis of paper evidence (cf. Amelung).
These earliest products of the printing press in the Netherlands have attracted a great deal of attention, not least owing to the bogus assertion that they were printed by Coster in the Netherlands before Gutenberg's invention at Mainz, yet much remains little understood. The present volume, containing variant page-settings and imposition, sheds further light on one shop, known as 'The Printer of the Speculum' and in particular on the method of simultaneous production of separate treatises combined into variant issues.
The present Fitzwilliam copy contains texts printed in editions of both Saliceto and Pontanus assigned to the 'Printer of the Speculum', but rather than being a mere composite volume, its variants and imposition show that it is a separate issue. It has long been recognised that the Saliceto and Pontanus editions are closely related, since they share 2 formes, comprising 4 page-settings, in all copies, but it appears that in fact the texts contained in these editions, with the exception perhaps of the Pontanus itself, were issued and available in a variety of combinations. The known combinations of the texts are:
1) Pontanus, Pius II, De mulieribus pravis, ps-Pius II, Epitaphs
2) Saliceto, Turrecremata, Pius II Contra luxuriosos et lascivos (= De mulieribus pravis), Pius II Pro laude Homeri, Pindarus Thebanus, Iliados epitome
3) Saliceto, Turrecremata, Pius II De mulieribus pravis, ps-Pius II, Epitaphs
4) Pindarus Thebanus, Iliados epitome
The Fitzwilliam copy belongs to the third group, within which are a variety of impositions; the Stuttgart and Fitzwilliam copies appear to be identical. The page-settings for the Saliceto-Turrecremata texts are identical in both groups 2 and 3, except for the presence or absence of one line at the bottom of the first text and its conjugate (absent from 1/1r.10v in the Fitzwilliam copy). Because of the difference in imposition between copies, all of the pages of this group must have been standing in type over a period of time, thereby demanding a quantity of type extraordinary for the 1460s-1470s. Furthermore, blocks of set type were rearranged and combined to create new page-settings. For instance, fo. 21r in the Fitzwilliam/Stuttgart copies contains the first lines from fo.58r and the final 32 lines from fo.59r in the British Library Pontanus.
The production of separate tracts, enabling a purchaser to pick and choose various combinations to meet his or her requirements or desires, has wide precedent in both manuscript and early printed books; Gnther Zainer's production of nine devotional tracts at Augsburg, one of which is Thomas Kempis's Imitatio Christi, is but one printed example. This same impulse is clearly behind the production of the tracts in the Saliceto-Pontanus editions. The individual tracts, however, rather than being printed in separate quires and treated as separate units, have been reimposed for each issue, requiring, as noted above, a number of pages standing in type over time. A fragment of a contents leaf listing the Pontanus and other tracts not now known survives, it also suggests that other subsidiary tracts may have joined or have been intended to join the Pontanus. It is also strongly reminiscent of the contents leaf issued by Zainer for his multi-tract edition mentioned above, furthering suggesting that these Pontanus-Saliceto tracts were considered as separate entities. (Cf. Lotte Hellinga, 'Max Joseph Husung and his discovery of a fragment of Dutch early printing,' Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, vol. 29: Inkunabel- und Einbandkunde, Beitrge des Symposions zu Ehren von Max Joseph Husung am 17. und 18. Mai 1995 in Helmstedt, Wiesbaden: 1996, pp.59-69.)
The last two leaves, forming a single quire, are here bound at the end; in the Stuttgart copy they also form a single quire but are inserted after the second leaf of the second quire. The text on these leaves is found in various positions in other copies, usually comprising either a single quire or two single leaves. Please apply to the department for a more detailed analysis of this copy.
ALL EXAMPLES OF DUTCH PROTOTYPOGRAPHY ARE RARE ON THE MARKET.
Christie's wish to thank Dr. Gerard van Thienen of the Royal Library in The Hague for providing details of other copies. C 5214; Camp (II, III) 1493; Holtrop Monuments typographiques pp.33, 34; Klebs 484.1; Polain(B) 1837; Amelung, Hellinga Festschrift 59; 15me Centenaire 37a-b, 39; BMC IX, 4 (IB. 47018-9); IDL 2163.