Accession number:
PML 55172
Uniform title:
Carmina.
Published:
Firenze : apud Lorenzo Torrentino, MDLII [1552].
Credit:
Gift of the Fellows, 1965.
Description:
386, [2] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
Binding:
16th-century French olive morocco, gilt and blind panelling, with gold tooled wreaths with title inscription: "Bembus, Nauger. Castil. Cotta, Flamin" and motto: "Beata tranquillitas" (front and rear boards), over paper boards (16 x 10.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. The overall tooling pattern is similar to that of the Cupid's Bow Binder (bindings for Lauweryn); Nixon identified a connection with early fanfare bindings, although only the floret tool on the spine related to those (Atelier au Vase), although those also typically have a flat back. In box by Ferdinand Bakala (Vienna).
Provenance:
Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-1868), armorial booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Paris, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 1056; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [beta alpha], purchased Jan. 1906 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale: Sotheby's (London), part II, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 921; E. Ph. Goldschmidt, booklabel (front pastedown), see his Gothic & Renaissance Book Bindings, no. 207, pl. 80; John Roland Abbey, armorial booklabel (front endleaf 1 recto), purchase inscription: JA1405, 19:1:1937 (rear endleaf 2 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part I, 21 June 1965, lot 120; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased as the gift of the Fellows, June 1965.
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