Eusebius Caesariensis. Eusebii Caesariensis Euangelicae demonstrationis libri decem. Donatus Veronensis vertit. Venice: Aurelio Pinzi, March 1536
A Latin translation by the humanist Bernardino Donato da Verona (1483–1543) of the ten extant books of Eusebius’s “Demonstration of the Gospel” (anticipating the Greek editio princeps by eight years, see lot 33). In his dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III, the translator extols his patron, Gian Matteo Giberti, bishop of Verona, who had brought him and other scholars to Verona, and, with the assistance of Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, Venetian specialists in Greek printing, begun to publish educational works and codices of the Greek fathers of the church. The first publication of Giberti’s episcopal press had been Donato’s Greek grammar, printed in 1529; two years later, it issued Donato’s edition of the Greek text of Damascene’s Orthodoxae fidei. The enterprise was terminated in 1532, and thereafter, Giberti used Venetian printers.
This copy was bound for Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo (1488–1557), Archbishop of Burgos. The second son of Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba (1460–1531), and brother of Pedro Alvarez de Toledo (1484–1553), viceroy of Naples, Juan entered the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in the convent of San Esteban, Salamanca, was sent to study at Colegio San Gregorio, Valladolid, and afterwards in Paris, becoming professor of philosophy and theology at Salamanca. Elected bishop of Córdoba in 1523, and Archbishop of Burgos in 1537, he received the capello cardinalizio on 20 December 1538 in S. Pietro Martire, Toledo, and from May 1540 resided in the Roman curia. This book perhaps was acquired and bound for him prior to his departure for Rome. The distinctive king-bishop-cardinal roll used to form two concentric frames has not been recognized on another binding.
In Rome, Cardinal Toledo quickly became a member of the Congregazione dell' Inquisizione. He was considered papabile in the conclaves of 1549–1550 and 1555, and about this time he commissioned a Missal, in five volumes, each illuminated in the papal scriptorium with his armorial insignia, probably by Vincenzo Raimondi and Apollonio de’ Bonfratelli ((Vatican Library, Barb. lat. 609, 3805; Vat. lat. 3807, 5590, 5591). Toledo was the patron of several books, one of them Juan Valverde de Amusco’s Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556). When he died in Rome, 15 September 1557, he received a funeral and was buried in the Dominican church S. Maria sopra Minerva (his body was afterwards exhumed and interred in San Esteban, Salamanca).
The Cardinal’s library may have been dispersed in Dominican houses. The next owner of this volume was a priest in Forlì, who presented it to the Dominican convent in his city.
Folio (295 x 207 mm). Roman type, 41 lines plus headline. collation: **6 A–H4 I–Z6 AA–GG6 HH10 (-HH10): 179 (of 180) leaves (lacking final blank HH10). Woodcut vignette on title-page, historiated and floriated woodcut initials. (A few small, undisconcerting wormholes.)
binding: Spanish (Toledan?) brown goatskin over wooden boards (309 x 217 mm), ca. 1539, richly blind tooled, 2 concentric borders composed of the same roll of medallions containing the heads of a king, a cardinal, and a bishop, alternating with ornament enclosing 2 griffins, a seated naked wild-man upholding 2 masks, 2 tritons (or mermen) striking a bell; in the central panel the arms of Alvarez de Toledo surmounted by a cardinal's hat, top and bottom of shield sprouting fleurons, larger Renaissance fleurons above and below, large arabesques in corners of panel, 2 clasps catching on lower cover, red edges, titled in ink on fore-edge. Cloth box. (Wear and minor repairs to spine, a number of small wormholes.) Brown morocco folding-case, black morocco labels.
provenance: Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo (armorial supralibros ) — (Antonio Boldoni([?]; presentation inscription “Pertinet ad libraria con.vs S.ti Dom.ci de Forlivio/Ex dono p.p. Antonii Bulduni Forliviensis civ.is prae.b”) — Convento di San Giacomo Apostolo dei Domenicani, Forlì (Dominican convent) — Exlibris “Priore Antonio Sassi” (possibly Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, of Milan [1675–1751], member Congregazione degli Oblati, librarian of Ambrosiana from 1711) — Jean Fürstenberg (1890–1982) — Thelem Antiquariat (Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster; Katalog 6, [1980], item 67, DM 3800) — Martin Breslauer, Inc., New York (Catalogue 110, [1992], item 32, $27,500). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., 1995.
references: Edit16 18381; USTC 828510; for the king-bishop-cardinal roll cf. rolls featuring medallion portraits of the archbishops of Toledo (Cisneros, Fonseca and Tavera) at https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/plateresca1545; Rolland, Exposición de Encuadernaciones Españolas, Siglos XII al XIX (Madrid, 1934), pp. 62–65 & pl. 24.
Eusebius Caesariensis. Eusebii Caesariensis Euangelicae demonstrationis libri decem. Donatus Veronensis vertit. Venice: Aurelio Pinzi, March 1536
A Latin translation by the humanist Bernardino Donato da Verona (1483–1543) of the ten extant books of Eusebius’s “Demonstration of the Gospel” (anticipating the Greek editio princeps by eight years, see lot 33). In his dedicatory letter to Pope Paul III, the translator extols his patron, Gian Matteo Giberti, bishop of Verona, who had brought him and other scholars to Verona, and, with the assistance of Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers, Venetian specialists in Greek printing, begun to publish educational works and codices of the Greek fathers of the church. The first publication of Giberti’s episcopal press had been Donato’s Greek grammar, printed in 1529; two years later, it issued Donato’s edition of the Greek text of Damascene’s Orthodoxae fidei. The enterprise was terminated in 1532, and thereafter, Giberti used Venetian printers.
This copy was bound for Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo (1488–1557), Archbishop of Burgos. The second son of Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, 2nd Duke of Alba (1460–1531), and brother of Pedro Alvarez de Toledo (1484–1553), viceroy of Naples, Juan entered the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in the convent of San Esteban, Salamanca, was sent to study at Colegio San Gregorio, Valladolid, and afterwards in Paris, becoming professor of philosophy and theology at Salamanca. Elected bishop of Córdoba in 1523, and Archbishop of Burgos in 1537, he received the capello cardinalizio on 20 December 1538 in S. Pietro Martire, Toledo, and from May 1540 resided in the Roman curia. This book perhaps was acquired and bound for him prior to his departure for Rome. The distinctive king-bishop-cardinal roll used to form two concentric frames has not been recognized on another binding.
In Rome, Cardinal Toledo quickly became a member of the Congregazione dell' Inquisizione. He was considered papabile in the conclaves of 1549–1550 and 1555, and about this time he commissioned a Missal, in five volumes, each illuminated in the papal scriptorium with his armorial insignia, probably by Vincenzo Raimondi and Apollonio de’ Bonfratelli ((Vatican Library, Barb. lat. 609, 3805; Vat. lat. 3807, 5590, 5591). Toledo was the patron of several books, one of them Juan Valverde de Amusco’s Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano (Rome, 1556). When he died in Rome, 15 September 1557, he received a funeral and was buried in the Dominican church S. Maria sopra Minerva (his body was afterwards exhumed and interred in San Esteban, Salamanca).
The Cardinal’s library may have been dispersed in Dominican houses. The next owner of this volume was a priest in Forlì, who presented it to the Dominican convent in his city.
Folio (295 x 207 mm). Roman type, 41 lines plus headline. collation: **6 A–H4 I–Z6 AA–GG6 HH10 (-HH10): 179 (of 180) leaves (lacking final blank HH10). Woodcut vignette on title-page, historiated and floriated woodcut initials. (A few small, undisconcerting wormholes.)
binding: Spanish (Toledan?) brown goatskin over wooden boards (309 x 217 mm), ca. 1539, richly blind tooled, 2 concentric borders composed of the same roll of medallions containing the heads of a king, a cardinal, and a bishop, alternating with ornament enclosing 2 griffins, a seated naked wild-man upholding 2 masks, 2 tritons (or mermen) striking a bell; in the central panel the arms of Alvarez de Toledo surmounted by a cardinal's hat, top and bottom of shield sprouting fleurons, larger Renaissance fleurons above and below, large arabesques in corners of panel, 2 clasps catching on lower cover, red edges, titled in ink on fore-edge. Cloth box. (Wear and minor repairs to spine, a number of small wormholes.) Brown morocco folding-case, black morocco labels.
provenance: Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo (armorial supralibros ) — (Antonio Boldoni([?]; presentation inscription “Pertinet ad libraria con.vs S.ti Dom.ci de Forlivio/Ex dono p.p. Antonii Bulduni Forliviensis civ.is prae.b”) — Convento di San Giacomo Apostolo dei Domenicani, Forlì (Dominican convent) — Exlibris “Priore Antonio Sassi” (possibly Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, of Milan [1675–1751], member Congregazione degli Oblati, librarian of Ambrosiana from 1711) — Jean Fürstenberg (1890–1982) — Thelem Antiquariat (Heribert Tenschert, Rotthalmünster; Katalog 6, [1980], item 67, DM 3800) — Martin Breslauer, Inc., New York (Catalogue 110, [1992], item 32, $27,500). acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., 1995.
references: Edit16 18381; USTC 828510; for the king-bishop-cardinal roll cf. rolls featuring medallion portraits of the archbishops of Toledo (Cisneros, Fonseca and Tavera) at https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/plateresca1545; Rolland, Exposición de Encuadernaciones Españolas, Siglos XII al XIX (Madrid, 1934), pp. 62–65 & pl. 24.
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