![VIPERA, Giovanni Mercurio (d. 1527). De divino et vero numineapologeticon. Six parts. 4o. 94 leaves. Each part with separate signatures and separate title within a fine woodcut compartment of floral design on black ground. N.p., n.d. [Rome, 1515]. -- De disciplinarum virtutumque Laudibus opusculum. 4o. 76 leaves. With splendid title woodcut border from the celebrated Tuppo Aesop (Naples, 1485), representing one of the triumphs of Hercules. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret, 14 September 1515]. -- Orationes. 4o. 32 leaves. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret & Ercole Nani, 30 September 1514]. -- Oratio [de justiciae laudibus]. 4o. 4 leaves. Title within a beautiful portico, on white ground, two rounded pillars at sides and long tassels hanging down from a flat-topped entablature. N.p., n.d. [Rome: Johannes Beplin, ca 1513].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02706_0340_000(vipera_giovanni_mercurio_de_divino_et_vero_numineapologeticon_six_part113848).jpg?w=1)
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VIPERA, Giovanni Mercurio (d. 1527). De divino et vero numineapologeticon. Six parts. 4o. 94 leaves. Each part with separate signatures and separate title within a fine woodcut compartment of floral design on black ground. N.p., n.d. [Rome, 1515]. -- De disciplinarum virtutumque Laudibus opusculum. 4o. 76 leaves. With splendid title woodcut border from the celebrated Tuppo Aesop (Naples, 1485), representing one of the triumphs of Hercules. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret, 14 September 1515]. -- Orationes. 4o. 32 leaves. [Rome: Etienne Guilleret & Ercole Nani, 30 September 1514]. -- Oratio [de justiciae laudibus]. 4o. 4 leaves. Title within a beautiful portico, on white ground, two rounded pillars at sides and long tassels hanging down from a flat-topped entablature. N.p., n.d. [Rome: Johannes Beplin, ca 1513].
Together 4 works, 4o (198 x 130 mm). Ruled in red throughout. (First few leaves becoming loose.) Bound together in 16th-century brown calf of probably Spanish workmanship, on sides the gilt arms with the Roman figures "XVI" and the initials "CJ" (slightly rubbed and rebacked). Provenance: early illegible signature on upper margin of first title, early manuscript index on front flyleaf of the volume; from the Sunderland Library (sale, 1 December 1881, item 13036); Charles Butler (bookplate); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1973.
A FINE COLLECTION OF FOUR VERY RARE ROMAN IMPRINTS. Vipera of Benevento was a learned man and for many years auditor at the Papal Court. He was slain by a plundering soldier in the infamous Sack of Rome in 1527. Most of his writings are short orations, all beautifully printed by the best Roman presses of the time, most notably by the Frenchman Etienne Guilleret who came from Lunéville in Lorraine, and who also perished during the Sack.
Guilleret used for the title of the second book in this volume a border which is copied in reverse from the Tuppo Aesop, Naples 1485 (see Hind II, 407) and which he used in the same year for the rare arithmetic of Ortega. Fine copies in a contemporary binding with interesting but unidentified arms. In an accompanying letter, dated August 1945, G.D. Hobson writes that various people called Jacobs in the Spanish Netherlands used very similar arms.
Adams V-843 and 847 (works 2 and 4); Isaacs 12088 and 12159 (works 3 and 4); Mortimer Italian 542 (second work); Sander 7629, 7631, and 7635 (works 1, 2 and 4). For the printer Etienne Guilleret see Norton, Italian Printers, pp. 98-100.
Together 4 works, 4o (198 x 130 mm). Ruled in red throughout. (First few leaves becoming loose.) Bound together in 16th-century brown calf of probably Spanish workmanship, on sides the gilt arms with the Roman figures "XVI" and the initials "CJ" (slightly rubbed and rebacked). Provenance: early illegible signature on upper margin of first title, early manuscript index on front flyleaf of the volume; from the Sunderland Library (sale, 1 December 1881, item 13036); Charles Butler (bookplate); acquired from Lathrop C. Harper, 1973.
A FINE COLLECTION OF FOUR VERY RARE ROMAN IMPRINTS. Vipera of Benevento was a learned man and for many years auditor at the Papal Court. He was slain by a plundering soldier in the infamous Sack of Rome in 1527. Most of his writings are short orations, all beautifully printed by the best Roman presses of the time, most notably by the Frenchman Etienne Guilleret who came from Lunéville in Lorraine, and who also perished during the Sack.
Guilleret used for the title of the second book in this volume a border which is copied in reverse from the Tuppo Aesop, Naples 1485 (see Hind II, 407) and which he used in the same year for the rare arithmetic of Ortega. Fine copies in a contemporary binding with interesting but unidentified arms. In an accompanying letter, dated August 1945, G.D. Hobson writes that various people called Jacobs in the Spanish Netherlands used very similar arms.
Adams V-843 and 847 (works 2 and 4); Isaacs 12088 and 12159 (works 3 and 4); Mortimer Italian 542 (second work); Sander 7629, 7631, and 7635 (works 1, 2 and 4). For the printer Etienne Guilleret see Norton, Italian Printers, pp. 98-100.