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GREGORY IX, Pope (d. 1241). Epistolae decretales summorum Pontificum, a Gregorio Nono... collectae. (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for) Paris: Jacques Dupuys (Puteanus), 1570 (colophon: 15 October 1569).
8o (163 x 109 mm). Late 16th- or early 17th-century French light brown calf, sides with gilt-blocked hatched center- and cornerpieces and a semis of stars, centerpiece lettered in gilt "PAULUS" on the upper cover and "WELSER" on the lower cover, spine in compartments decorated with small gilt pineapples, gilt edges (upper cover detached, front joint and tail of spine restored). Provenance: Paulus Welser (1555-1633) (binding); Buxheim, Carthusians (inkstamp and inscription on title).
The owner of this volume, Paulus Welser, was almost certainly the brother of Marcus Welser, a noted antiquarian, historian and mayor of Augsburg. Paul Welser, himself a scholar of note, edited an edition of Porphyrius, and translated into German his brother's principal work, a history of Bavaria. Welser may have spent some time in Paris: the structural characteristics of the binding are all typically French (worked as opposed to stuck-on endbands, comb-type spine lining, etc.) Adams G-1226.
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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De oratore - De claris oratoribus. Edited by Paulus Manutius. Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1546.
2 parts (of 4) in one volume, 8o (151 x 95 mm). Italic type. Printer's woodcut device on titles and versos of last leaves. (Light marginal dampstain to first few leaves). French olive morocco over pasteboard, after 1550-1555, sides with gilt-blocked arabesque corner- and centerpieces, smooth spine panelled in three compartments divided by gilt knotwork tooling and decorated with repeated azur tool, 19th or 20th-century gilt lettering, gilt edges (extremities of spine chipped, old restoration to corners, joints and corners lightly rubbed, spine a bit faded). Provenance: Johannes Paravicini of La Chapelle-?? ("a Capellis Rethi", 17th-century inscription, bequeathed to Daniel Paravicini, of the same town (1707? inscription).
This binding is characteristically French, with its comb lining and worked endbands with frayed out cords. The use of recessed support sewing, which permitted the binder to conceal the sewing cords under the leather and create a smooth or flat spine, did not come into use until after 1550. Adams C-1644; Ahmanson-Murphy 319; Renouard p. 136:7.
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The owner of this volume, Paulus Welser, was almost certainly the brother of Marcus Welser, a noted antiquarian, historian and mayor of Augsburg. Paul Welser, himself a scholar of note, edited an edition of Porphyrius, and translated into German his brother's principal work, a history of Bavaria. Welser may have spent some time in Paris: the structural characteristics of the binding are all typically French (worked as opposed to stuck-on endbands, comb-type spine lining, etc.) Adams G-1226.
[With:]
CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). De oratore - De claris oratoribus. Edited by Paulus Manutius. Venice: Paulus Manutius, 1546.
2 parts (of 4) in one volume, 8
This binding is characteristically French, with its comb lining and worked endbands with frayed out cords. The use of recessed support sewing, which permitted the binder to conceal the sewing cords under the leather and create a smooth or flat spine, did not come into use until after 1550. Adams C-1644; Ahmanson-Murphy 319; Renouard p. 136:7.
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