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CAMPANUS, Johannes Antonius (1429-77). Opera. Edited by Michael Fernus (d.1513). Rome: Eucharius Silber, for Michael Fernus, 31 October 1495.
Median 2° (315 x 217 mm). Collation: π6 2π10 3π2 a-c8 d-e6 k-l6 χ2 2a8 2b-2d6 2e4 2f8 2g-h6 2i4 2χ6 3a-3h8.6 3i-3k6 3l-3m4 4a8 3χ2 A10 B-G6.8 H6 4χ4 2A6 2B4 2C6 2D-2F4 2G2 (π1r title with woodcut of bell, π1v privilege, verses by Fernus and Petrus Sabinus, π2r letter from Jacobus Antiquarius to Fernus, π2v letter to Jacobus Antiquarius by Fernus, π3v index, π4r preliminaries by Fernus, 2π1r Life of Campanus by Fernus, 2π10v epitaph, 3π1r index to part I, a1r preface by Fernus, a2r Opuscula varia: De ingratitudine fugienda, De regendo magistratu, De dignitate matrimonii, Descriptio Trasimeni, k1r De fratris obitu, In varios auctores censure, l6v blank, χ1r index to the orations, 2a1r preface by Fernus, 2a2r Orations, 2χ1r epitome of the Epistolae, 3a1r preface by Fernus, 3a2r Epistolae, 4a1r preface by Fernus, 4a2r Vita Pii II, 3χ1r index to De vita et gestis Brachii, A1r preface by Fernus, A2r De vita et gestis Brachii, H6v blank, 4χ1r preface by Fernus and index, 4χ4 blank, 2A1 blank, 2A2r Elegiae et epigrammata, 2F4r verses and epigramms, 2F4v large woodcut device, 2G1r Vis ex stulto demens, 2G2v colophon). 304 leaves (of 306, without the blanks 4χ4 and 2A1). 54-56 lines and headlines. Types 4:109R3, 7:73G, 8:84R, 11:146G. Two woodcut devices incorporating the initials HAE (Eucharius Argenteus Herbipolensis), woodcut white-on-black ornamental initials from 8 sets. Early 19th-century tan morocco, sides with narrow gilt border around large brown morocco panels reused from an earlier binding, spine gilt with crowned "D" (Devonshire) in top compartment, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red edges (light wear to front hinge).
Provenance: Henry Cavendish, rubberstamp on verso of first leaf, gilt stamp on spine (sale, Christie's, 18 November 1970, lot 6).
FIRST EDITION, and the Chatsworth copy. Historian, orator and Bishop of Cotrone, Campanus also worked as scholar-editor at the press of Ulrich Han in Rome. As Dibdin (Aedes Althorpianae II, p.99) observed, "this is one of the most provokingly capricious volumes, in respect to signatures, ever opened," and the collation of the final part (Elegiae) is witness to that sentiment. All standard bibliographies record it beginning with a quire of 8 leaves (2A8), but the present copy has two quires, one of 4 and one of 6 leaves with the last and first leaves respectively blank, as the distribution of watermarks and sewing make clear. A LARGE COPY, preserving many deckle edges.
HC 4286; BMC IV, 117 (IB. 19006-9); GW 5939; IGI 2383; Polain(B) 964; Goff C-73.
Median 2° (315 x 217 mm). Collation: π6 2π10 3π2 a-c8 d-e6 k-l6 χ2 2a8 2b-2d6 2e4 2f8 2g-h6 2i4 2χ6 3a-3h8.6 3i-3k6 3l-3m4 4a8 3χ2 A10 B-G6.8 H6 4χ4 2A6 2B4 2C6 2D-2F4 2G2 (π1r title with woodcut of bell, π1v privilege, verses by Fernus and Petrus Sabinus, π2r letter from Jacobus Antiquarius to Fernus, π2v letter to Jacobus Antiquarius by Fernus, π3v index, π4r preliminaries by Fernus, 2π1r Life of Campanus by Fernus, 2π10v epitaph, 3π1r index to part I, a1r preface by Fernus, a2r Opuscula varia: De ingratitudine fugienda, De regendo magistratu, De dignitate matrimonii, Descriptio Trasimeni, k1r De fratris obitu, In varios auctores censure, l6v blank, χ1r index to the orations, 2a1r preface by Fernus, 2a2r Orations, 2χ1r epitome of the Epistolae, 3a1r preface by Fernus, 3a2r Epistolae, 4a1r preface by Fernus, 4a2r Vita Pii II, 3χ1r index to De vita et gestis Brachii, A1r preface by Fernus, A2r De vita et gestis Brachii, H6v blank, 4χ1r preface by Fernus and index, 4χ4 blank, 2A1 blank, 2A2r Elegiae et epigrammata, 2F4r verses and epigramms, 2F4v large woodcut device, 2G1r Vis ex stulto demens, 2G2v colophon). 304 leaves (of 306, without the blanks 4χ4 and 2A1). 54-56 lines and headlines. Types 4:109R3, 7:73G, 8:84R, 11:146G. Two woodcut devices incorporating the initials HAE (Eucharius Argenteus Herbipolensis), woodcut white-on-black ornamental initials from 8 sets. Early 19th-century tan morocco, sides with narrow gilt border around large brown morocco panels reused from an earlier binding, spine gilt with crowned "D" (Devonshire) in top compartment, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, red edges (light wear to front hinge).
Provenance: Henry Cavendish, rubberstamp on verso of first leaf, gilt stamp on spine (sale, Christie's, 18 November 1970, lot 6).
FIRST EDITION, and the Chatsworth copy. Historian, orator and Bishop of Cotrone, Campanus also worked as scholar-editor at the press of Ulrich Han in Rome. As Dibdin (Aedes Althorpianae II, p.99) observed, "this is one of the most provokingly capricious volumes, in respect to signatures, ever opened," and the collation of the final part (Elegiae) is witness to that sentiment. All standard bibliographies record it beginning with a quire of 8 leaves (2A8), but the present copy has two quires, one of 4 and one of 6 leaves with the last and first leaves respectively blank, as the distribution of watermarks and sewing make clear. A LARGE COPY, preserving many deckle edges.
HC 4286; BMC IV, 117 (IB. 19006-9); GW 5939; IGI 2383; Polain(B) 964; Goff C-73.