BIB_ID
455702
Accession number
MA 23901
Creator
Leoniceno, Niccolò, 1428-1524, author.
Credit line
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
1 item (54 pages) ; 22 x 15 cm
Notes
Early 19th century manuscript facsimile written on vellum of the first the printed edition of Leoniceno's treatise on syphilis, Libellus de Epidemia, quam uulgo morbum Gallicum uocant (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, June 1497). The manuscript created for the Parisian bookseller Charles Chardin (1842-1826) and attributed to "Fyot", evidently one of two known calligraphers and facsimilists by that name who were employed by Chardin to supply leaves in manuscript where printed leaves were missing from volumes, as well as manuscript facsimiles of entire printed works. The two calligraphers working under the Fyot name have been identified as "Fyot aîné" (F.F. (François-Florent) Fyot) and "Fyot jeune" (J.S. Fyot), and are sometimes referred to collectively as "Les frères Fyot". Cf. Grolier Club. Aldus Manutius, 2015; for further information of Fyot, see: "The brothers Fyot, Charles Chardin, and the making of manuscript Aldine facsimiles on vellum", from Robin Halwas website (robinhalwas.com), "Notabilia", viewed June 4, 2025.
Provenance
Charles Chardin (1742-ca. 1827); Debure frères, Paris, 9 February-22 March 1824, lot 900 ("Copie figurée sur Vélin, contenant 28 feuillets"); Sir John Hayford Thorold, 10th Bt. (1773-1831); Sir John Henry Thorold, 12th Bt. (1842-1922); his sale, Sotheby's London, 12-19 December 1884, lot 1131; B.F. Stevens & Brown, London, purchased at Sotheby's (£6); Robert Hoe (1839-1909), booklabel; Carolyn Shipman, Catalogue of ... the library of Robert Hoe [New York 1909], pp. 191-192 ("a modern facsimile manuscript ... From the Syston Park collection"); Anderson Galleries, Catalogue of the library of Robert Hoe of New York. Part II: L to Z, New York, 15-19 January 1912, lot 2489; Charles Parsons Senter (1870-1932); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 25-26 October 1933, lot 220; Eli Moschcowitz (1879-1964) [lots 1-155 consigned, "The Property of the late Dr Eli Moschcowitz of New York City"; medical director of Mount Sinai Hospital, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia]; Sotheby's London, 14 December 1964, lot 85; Charles J. Sawyer, London, bought in sale (£45). acquisition: Purchased from Libreria Bourlot, Turin, 1973; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M, Sotheby's, New York, 18 October 2024, lot 838.
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