Accession number
PML 198641.1
Creator
Quintilian.
Published
Coloniae : Eucharius Ceruicornus excudebat, Anno M.D. XXVII. Mense Avg. [August 1527]
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2020.
Notes
Colphon (leaf cc7v): "Coloniae impensa M. Godofridi Hydorpij, quarto nonas Augusti."
Signatures: AA⁴; a-cc⁸/⁶, leaf cc8 blank.
Title page with decorative woodcut border with Dionysius and Cleopatra, for Cervicornus (printer's mark at top right) cut by Anton Woensam after the border designed for Froben at Basel by Hans Holbein the Younger and cut by Hans Lützelburger (see Hans Holbein d.J. : die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel (Basel, 1997), nos. 41 and 41b).
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Signatures: AA⁴; a-cc⁸/⁶, leaf cc8 blank.
Title page with decorative woodcut border with Dionysius and Cleopatra, for Cervicornus (printer's mark at top right) cut by Anton Woensam after the border designed for Froben at Basel by Hans Holbein the Younger and cut by Hans Lützelburger (see Hans Holbein d.J. : die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel (Basel, 1997), nos. 41 and 41b).
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Description
[8], 330, [2] pages ; 33 cm fol.
Inscriptions/Markings
Unidentified Greek inscriptions (upper border of top board and front pastedown). Contemporary Latin marginal notations throughout, in at least 3 hands. Two drawings: male head in profile and hawk (rear endleaf).
Provenance
Reinerus Tengnagell, of Arnhem, inscription: “Rhenerus Arnhem, alias Tengnagell” (front pastedown) and monogram cypher (front endleaf 1 recto), through inheritance to (perhaps his sons?): Gregor Tengnagell (born about 1555, Louvain), inscription: “Ex libris Gregoii Tengnagell” (Quintilian, leaf AA1r) and his brother Philip Tengnagell, donation inscription to Georg Wilhelm von Helfenstein: “Illustri ac generoso Domino D[omi]no Georgio Wilhelmo, Comiti in Helfenstein Baroni in Gundelfingen [??] Philippus Tengnagell I.C. Dono dedit. A[nn]o D[omi]ni 1615. 5. Feb[ruar]ii.” (Quintilian, leaf AA1r), with second inscription: "Georgius Wilhemus. In Helffenstein hunc [crossed out: librum hunc donit] librum I.M. scriba Paeceptorii suo propter [???] studia" and "Tam diu quam vivat hunc possidebit librum" (Quintilian, leaf AA1v), the bulk of the Helfenstein library passed to the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen; unidentified monogram stamp in purple ink: “E S” in rounded rectangle (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Martayan Lan, Oct. 2020.
Binding
Contemporary Belgian blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards (32.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Manuscript waste pastedowns and plain paper fly leaves; braided leather cord endbands; top edge of spine repaired with added paper title label, perhaps 17th century. Corner edge pieces; 2 clasps, missing. Fore-edge manuscript title: QVIN.GEL.MA.
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