Crinito, Pietro. Petri Criniti Libri de poetis Latinis. Florence: Filippo I Giunta, 1 February 1505/6
Petrus Crinitus (“Curly”), d. 1507, was the pen name of the Florence humanist Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, disciple of Poliziano. His literary miscellany De honesta disciplina, published by Giunta in 1504, went through many editions. De poetis latinis is generally dated 1505, but Giunta’s colophon must be interpreted as 1505/6, for Crinitus’s dedication to Cosimo Pazzi, Bishop of Arezzo, is dated 1 November 1505.
Bound for Jean Grolier by the Cupid’s Bow Binder, an anonymous Paris shop that was patronized by Marc Lauweryn, Catherine de Medicis, Anne de Montmorency, and other binding connoisseurs. The shop produced almost four dozen bindings for Grolier over roughly a decade, 1546-1556. The “name” tool of a bow, by which Howard Nixon christened the shop, figures prominently on the covers. This example is unusual in having the title gilt-tooled on a roundel inlay of red morocco.
"The most distinguished of Mr Schäfer's Groliers is the Crinitus…" (M. von Arnim, "Grolier Bindings in the Otto Schäfer Library" in Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson (Verona 1994), pp.21-32, p.21).
Chancery folio (275 x 190 mm). Roman type, 39 lines plus headline; initial spaces. collation: AA6; A-G6: 48 leaves, unfoliated. AA1v, 5v, 6 and G6v blank. Errata and colophon on G6r.
binding: Brown morocco with gilt tooling of open and azured tools (280 x 200 mm), inlaid red morocco roundel on upper cover with gilt title, Grolier’s ownership inscription gilt in bottom compartment of upper cover, and motto similarly tooled on lower cover; edges gilt; spine gilt in the seventeenth century with a semé of fleurs-de-lis.
provenance: Jean Grolier (died 1565) — Claude Gros de Boze (sale Paris, Martin, 1753, lot 2578) — Antoine Marie Pâris d’Illins (Bibliotheca Parisiana, London, 28 March 1791, lot 186) — Michael Wodhull (“Leigh’s sale, Nov. 28th 1801 £1 11s 6d”; Sotheby’s, 11 January 1886, lot 845) — Paulin Caperon — Adolphe Bordes — Maurice Loncle — Otto Schäfer (purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1961). acquisition: Purchased from Stéphane Clavreuil, Paris, 2019. references: Edit16 13762; Pettas, Giunti of Florence 15; Renouard XXXV/15. For the binding, see Austin 150; Europäische Einbandkunst no. 39; Anthony Hobson Renaissance Book Collecting, 227-8 (census of Cupid’s Bow bindings commissioned by Grolier)
Crinito, Pietro. Petri Criniti Libri de poetis Latinis. Florence: Filippo I Giunta, 1 February 1505/6
Petrus Crinitus (“Curly”), d. 1507, was the pen name of the Florence humanist Pietro Del Riccio Baldi, disciple of Poliziano. His literary miscellany De honesta disciplina, published by Giunta in 1504, went through many editions. De poetis latinis is generally dated 1505, but Giunta’s colophon must be interpreted as 1505/6, for Crinitus’s dedication to Cosimo Pazzi, Bishop of Arezzo, is dated 1 November 1505.
Bound for Jean Grolier by the Cupid’s Bow Binder, an anonymous Paris shop that was patronized by Marc Lauweryn, Catherine de Medicis, Anne de Montmorency, and other binding connoisseurs. The shop produced almost four dozen bindings for Grolier over roughly a decade, 1546-1556. The “name” tool of a bow, by which Howard Nixon christened the shop, figures prominently on the covers. This example is unusual in having the title gilt-tooled on a roundel inlay of red morocco.
"The most distinguished of Mr Schäfer's Groliers is the Crinitus…" (M. von Arnim, "Grolier Bindings in the Otto Schäfer Library" in Bookbindings & Other Bibliophily: Essays in honour of Anthony Hobson (Verona 1994), pp.21-32, p.21).
Chancery folio (275 x 190 mm). Roman type, 39 lines plus headline; initial spaces. collation: AA6; A-G6: 48 leaves, unfoliated. AA1v, 5v, 6 and G6v blank. Errata and colophon on G6r.
binding: Brown morocco with gilt tooling of open and azured tools (280 x 200 mm), inlaid red morocco roundel on upper cover with gilt title, Grolier’s ownership inscription gilt in bottom compartment of upper cover, and motto similarly tooled on lower cover; edges gilt; spine gilt in the seventeenth century with a semé of fleurs-de-lis.
provenance: Jean Grolier (died 1565) — Claude Gros de Boze (sale Paris, Martin, 1753, lot 2578) — Antoine Marie Pâris d’Illins (Bibliotheca Parisiana, London, 28 March 1791, lot 186) — Michael Wodhull (“Leigh’s sale, Nov. 28th 1801 £1 11s 6d”; Sotheby’s, 11 January 1886, lot 845) — Paulin Caperon — Adolphe Bordes — Maurice Loncle — Otto Schäfer (purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1961). acquisition: Purchased from Stéphane Clavreuil, Paris, 2019. references: Edit16 13762; Pettas, Giunti of Florence 15; Renouard XXXV/15. For the binding, see Austin 150; Europäische Einbandkunst no. 39; Anthony Hobson Renaissance Book Collecting, 227-8 (census of Cupid’s Bow bindings commissioned by Grolier)
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