Carmina fvnebria, qvae magnorvm aliqvot, clarorvmqve virorum felici memoriae dicavit / Nic. Tavr.

Accession number: 
PML 199209.2
Author: 
Taurellus, Nicolaus, 1547-1606, author.
Published: 
Noribergae : Typis Gerlachianis, 1592
Description: 
8 unnumbered leaves ; 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: 

Funeral hymns honoring illustrious people in Bavaria, including Andras Dudith and Thomas Erastus, concluding with verses about the author's own eight children who died in childhood.

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

Carmina funebria, quae magnorum aliquot, clarorumque virorum felici memoriae dicavit

Inscriptions/Markings: 

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"; extensive autograph notes throughout.

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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