Emblemata physico-ethica : hoc est Natvrae morvm moderatricis picta praecepta / à Nicolao Tavrello.

Accession number: 
PML 199209.1
Author: 
Taurellus, Nicolaus, 1547-1606, author.
Published: 
Noribergae : Excudebat Paulus Kaufmann, 1595.
Description: 
110 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 16.6 x 10.8 cm (8vo)
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Notes: 

Emblems printed on one side of leaf; versos are left blank, with a decorative border, for reader's notes.
Signatures: a-b⁸ A-M⁸

Binding: 
Later (probably early nineteenth-century) light blue velvet over pasteboard; blue edges.
Variant Title: 

Hoc est Naturae morum moderatricis picta praecepta

Inscriptions/Markings: 

The autograph notes throughout the volume are dated between 1605 and 1607, and attributed to friends and acquaintances of Johann Georg Göringer in Heidelberg, among them Georg Sommer, Gebhard Agricola, Denys Godefroy de Guignecourt, and Wolfgang Lossius. Numerous ink and pencil inscriptions on endpapers pertaining to the physical description and provenance of the volume; bookplates of John William Beaumont Pease, 1st Baron Wardington (armorial bookplate on upper pastedown with inscription "From the Hamilton Palace sale"), Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (on lower pastedown), and Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow (on upper free flyleaf); listing from an unidentified auction catalog affixed to upper pastedown; autograph note on second upper free flyleaf, "Liber a me / Joh G Gering"; twenty-four autograph notes throughout in Latin and Greek.

Provenance: 
G. Göringer (Geringer), of Neumarkt, Upper Palatinate; Johann Georg Göringer; William Beckford (1759-1844); Alexander Douglas Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1787-1852); Hamilton Palace sale, Sotheby's, 2 July 1883, lot 2440, £4-15 to H. Stevens; John William Beaumont Pease, 1st Baron Wardington (1869-1950); Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, 2nd Baron Wardington (1924-2005); Marlborough Rare Books, sold in 1981 to Arthur (1922-2012) and Charlotte Vershbow; T. Kimball Brooker.
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Department: 
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