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GUIBERTUS TORNACENSIS. Sermones ad omnes status de novo correcti et emendati. Lyons: J. de Vingle for Stephanus Gueynard, 1511.
8° (140 x 98mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut border and initial, woodcut initials. (Marginal dampstins.) CONTEMPORARY LONDON BINDING BY WYNKYN DE WORDE'S BINDER, calf over wooden boards, each cover with a blind-stamped panel: the front cover with the Mass of St. Gregory (Weale R.87; Oldham Panels ST.16), the back cover with St. Barbara (Weale R.88; Oldham ST.1) and the tower in which she was imprisoned, the border with foliage, grapes, birds, animals and a mermaid with comb and glass (hinges split, covers and spine slightly worn, lacking clasps and catches). In modern cloth box with Lord Kenyon's arms.
Provenance: (1) Thomas Swalwell, a monk of Durham who entered holy orders c.1483 and died in 1539. Ker Medieval Libraries and its supplement list a total of 55 books and manuscripts belonging to him, not including this one, which, as well as the inscription on title, has numerous annotations in his distinctive hand. (2) Gift from Swalwell in 1526 to Stephen Marley (inscription on front endpaper). (3) Sir Thomas Tempest, Baronet (either 2nd Bt., d. 1641 or 4th Bt., d. 1692, inscription on title). (4) E. Gordon Duff (inscription, no. 47, sold Sotheby's 16 March 1925, lot 81, bought by (5) E. P. Goldschmidt; (6) J. R. Abbey (leather bookplate, ref. no. 2376, sold Sotheby's 22 June 1965, lot 363). (6) Bought by Quaritch for Lord Kenyon.
A PANEL BINDING WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. Oldham (ST. 16) concludes that this panel, copied from an illustration by Pigouchet, was cut for a French binder. Sometime after 1508, the panels were acquired by Wynkyn de Worde. The two panels appear together in all of the 17 examples in which they are known. The panel of the mass of St. Gregory was originally stamped with the intials "S. G." (perhaps for the Lyons bookseller Stephanus Gueynard, whose advertisement appears on the title of this book): the initials were removed by de Worde when he acquired the panel.
The endleaves in this copy (one at the beginning and two at the end) are a fragment of John Mirk's Liber Festivalis (STC 17971.3).
8° (140 x 98mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut border and initial, woodcut initials. (Marginal dampstins.) CONTEMPORARY LONDON BINDING BY WYNKYN DE WORDE'S BINDER, calf over wooden boards, each cover with a blind-stamped panel: the front cover with the Mass of St. Gregory (Weale R.87; Oldham Panels ST.16), the back cover with St. Barbara (Weale R.88; Oldham ST.1) and the tower in which she was imprisoned, the border with foliage, grapes, birds, animals and a mermaid with comb and glass (hinges split, covers and spine slightly worn, lacking clasps and catches). In modern cloth box with Lord Kenyon's arms.
Provenance: (1) Thomas Swalwell, a monk of Durham who entered holy orders c.1483 and died in 1539. Ker Medieval Libraries and its supplement list a total of 55 books and manuscripts belonging to him, not including this one, which, as well as the inscription on title, has numerous annotations in his distinctive hand. (2) Gift from Swalwell in 1526 to Stephen Marley (inscription on front endpaper). (3) Sir Thomas Tempest, Baronet (either 2nd Bt., d. 1641 or 4th Bt., d. 1692, inscription on title). (4) E. Gordon Duff (inscription, no. 47, sold Sotheby's 16 March 1925, lot 81, bought by (5) E. P. Goldschmidt; (6) J. R. Abbey (leather bookplate, ref. no. 2376, sold Sotheby's 22 June 1965, lot 363). (6) Bought by Quaritch for Lord Kenyon.
A PANEL BINDING WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. Oldham (ST. 16) concludes that this panel, copied from an illustration by Pigouchet, was cut for a French binder. Sometime after 1508, the panels were acquired by Wynkyn de Worde. The two panels appear together in all of the 17 examples in which they are known. The panel of the mass of St. Gregory was originally stamped with the intials "S. G." (perhaps for the Lyons bookseller Stephanus Gueynard, whose advertisement appears on the title of this book): the initials were removed by de Worde when he acquired the panel.
The endleaves in this copy (one at the beginning and two at the end) are a fragment of John Mirk's Liber Festivalis (STC 17971.3).