Strada, Jacopo. Epitome du thresor des antiquitez, c'est è dire, portraits des vrayes medailles des Empp. tant d'Orient que d'Occident. De l'estude fr Iacques de Strada Mantuan Antiquaire. Traduit par Iean Louveau d'Orleans. Lyon: [Jean de Tournes for] Jacopo Strada and Thomas Guérin, (2 December) 1553
Jacopo Strada (1507-1588) was a Mantuan antiquary, famously portrayed by Titian, who worked as agent and advisor for the Fuggers of Augsburg, various Habsburgs including Rudolf II, and Albrecht V of Bavaria.
He based this description of his own collection of coins and medals on the works of Andrea Fulvio (lot 527) and Johann Huttich (lots 541-542). In the preface Strada acknowledges the assistance he received from Fugger and Guillaume du Choul, as well as Jean Grolier, whose library he mentions ("une tres grande multitude de livres, tant Grecs que Latins", bb1v). The dedicatee was a correspondent of Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle, and the privilege is signed by Thomas Mahieu, putting this work firmly in the orbit of the most eminent book collectors of the time.
The original Latin text was printed a little earlier in the same year by Jean de Tournes
4to (240 x 162 mm). Roman type, 37 lines plus headline. collation: aa-cc4 a-z4 A-Z4 Aa-Gg4: 224 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut armorial of the dedicatee (Johann Jakob Fugger von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn) on verso of title, white on black woodcut criblé initials, white on black woodcut medallion portraits. A few neat early annotations in Latin in red ink. (Quire A lightly browned.)
binding: Near-contemporary red morocco gilt over thin wooden boards (247 x 170 mm), made in Prague or Germany, gilt arabesque centre- and corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. (Corners and ends of spine repaired, front pastedown mostly covered with another sheet of paper.)
provenance: Ferdinand, baron Hoffmann zu Grünbüchel und Strechau (1540-1607, privy counsellor to Rudolf II), large engraved armorial bookplate (slightly torn and on a later pastedown) — [his library acquired in 1679 by the Princes of Dietrichstein, Schloss Nikolsburg, Moravia], sale, Bibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Luzern, 21 November 1933, lot 146 — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), bookplate dated 1937, and his purchase note at end "Vinot, Lyon, 1934", sale, Christie's, Paris, 15 December 2015, lot 202. acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: Cartier, De Tournes 259; Dekesel S71; Mortimer, Harvard French 503
Strada, Jacopo. Epitome du thresor des antiquitez, c'est è dire, portraits des vrayes medailles des Empp. tant d'Orient que d'Occident. De l'estude fr Iacques de Strada Mantuan Antiquaire. Traduit par Iean Louveau d'Orleans. Lyon: [Jean de Tournes for] Jacopo Strada and Thomas Guérin, (2 December) 1553
Jacopo Strada (1507-1588) was a Mantuan antiquary, famously portrayed by Titian, who worked as agent and advisor for the Fuggers of Augsburg, various Habsburgs including Rudolf II, and Albrecht V of Bavaria.
He based this description of his own collection of coins and medals on the works of Andrea Fulvio (lot 527) and Johann Huttich (lots 541-542). In the preface Strada acknowledges the assistance he received from Fugger and Guillaume du Choul, as well as Jean Grolier, whose library he mentions ("une tres grande multitude de livres, tant Grecs que Latins", bb1v). The dedicatee was a correspondent of Cardinal Perrenot de Granvelle, and the privilege is signed by Thomas Mahieu, putting this work firmly in the orbit of the most eminent book collectors of the time.
The original Latin text was printed a little earlier in the same year by Jean de Tournes
4to (240 x 162 mm). Roman type, 37 lines plus headline. collation: aa-cc4 a-z4 A-Z4 Aa-Gg4: 224 leaves. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut armorial of the dedicatee (Johann Jakob Fugger von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn) on verso of title, white on black woodcut criblé initials, white on black woodcut medallion portraits. A few neat early annotations in Latin in red ink. (Quire A lightly browned.)
binding: Near-contemporary red morocco gilt over thin wooden boards (247 x 170 mm), made in Prague or Germany, gilt arabesque centre- and corner-pieces, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. (Corners and ends of spine repaired, front pastedown mostly covered with another sheet of paper.)
provenance: Ferdinand, baron Hoffmann zu Grünbüchel und Strechau (1540-1607, privy counsellor to Rudolf II), large engraved armorial bookplate (slightly torn and on a later pastedown) — [his library acquired in 1679 by the Princes of Dietrichstein, Schloss Nikolsburg, Moravia], sale, Bibliothek Alexander Fürst Dietrichstein, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Luzern, 21 November 1933, lot 146 — Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), bookplate dated 1937, and his purchase note at end "Vinot, Lyon, 1934", sale, Christie's, Paris, 15 December 2015, lot 202. acquisition: Purchased in 2017 from Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: Cartier, De Tournes 259; Dekesel S71; Mortimer, Harvard French 503
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