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> \\ !!Go to the [[http://provenance.cerl.org/cgi-bin/canyouhelp/start.pl|Provenance Database]].!!\\ For further information, please contact [[D.J.Shaw@cerl.org|David Shaw]].\\ | > \\ !!Go to the [[http://provenance.cerl.org/cgi-bin/canyouhelp/start.pl|Provenance Database]].!!\\ For further information, please contact [[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]].\\ |
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|12 October 2009 |||| | |12 October 2009 |||| |
|{{:resources:provenance:iv_d_q_41_d_b_1_exlibris.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Book plate found in a German travel book printed in 1774.|Bernhard Wirth (Universitaetsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main) points to similar emblems in [[http://www.lange-kerls.de/portev/include.php?path=forum/showthread.php&threadid=11|Prussian regimental standards, c. 1700]].|[[Annelen.Ottermann@stadt.mainz.de?subject=1774 bookplate|Annelen Ottermann]], \\ Abteilungsleiterin Handschriften, Rara, Alte Drucke, \\ Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, Mainz| | |{{:resources:provenance:iv_d_q_41_d_b_1_exlibris.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Book plate found in a German travel book printed in 1774.|Bernhard Wirth (Universitaetsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main) points to similar emblems in [[http://www.lange-kerls.de/portev/include.php?path=forum/showthread.php&threadid=11|Prussian regimental standards, c. 1700]].|[[Annelen.Ottermann@stadt.mainz.de?subject=1774 bookplate|Annelen Ottermann]], \\ Abteilungsleiterin Handschriften, Rara, Alte Drucke, \\ Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, Mainz| |
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|24 September 2009 |||| | |24 September 2009 |||| |
|{{http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/bookimages/bkplate.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Whose bookplate is this, showing a bird, with the initials "**AF**"|On the front pastedown of a copy of the Cuala Press edition of //Poems// by Lionel Johnson, edited by William Butler Yeats (1904)?|[[tim@jamescumminsbookseller.com?subject=AF book plate|Tim Johns]]\\ James Cummins Bookseller\\ 699 Madison Avenue\\ New York| | |{{http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/bookimages/bkplate.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Whose bookplate is this, showing a bird, with the initials "**AF**"|On the front pastedown of a copy of the Cuala Press edition of //Poems// by Lionel Johnson, edited by William Butler Yeats (1904)?|[[tim@jamescumminsbookseller.com?subject=AF book plate|Tim Johns]]\\ James Cummins Bookseller\\ 699 Madison Avenue\\ New York| |
|[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3939674622/|{{http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2507/3939674622_705066e1af.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|**EB (or BE) monogram** stamped on a2r of a copy of Isidorus Hispalensis, //Etymologiae// (Venice: Peter Löslein, 1483). \\ The curved parts of the B end in curls that enter the counters.|In the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Massachusetts|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Palmerino binding stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3939674622/|{{http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2507/3939674622_705066e1af.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|**EB (or BE) monogram** stamped on a2r of a copy of Isidorus Hispalensis, //Etymologiae// (Venice: Peter Löslein, 1483). \\ The curved parts of the B end in curls that enter the counters.|In the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Massachusetts|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Palmerino binding stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library| |
|10 September 2009 |||| | |10 September 2009 |||| |
|[[http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/:resources:provenance:fenton_figure_7.jpg|{{:resources:provenance:fenton_thumb.jpg?120 |Click for larger image}}]]|**Joseph Fenton (1565/70--1634)** was a London surgeon.\\ Items from his substantial library are easily identified by his signature, usually accompanied by his motto 'Sustine abstine', or an alternative motto 'Sors mea mors' and a number, often in a rectangle, at the top of the title page.|Many volumes were acquired by Sir Hans Sloane and are now in the British Library. (see [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane|http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane]], where over 300 Fenton items are listed).|Sloane did not acquire the whole library and I am interested in locating Fenton books in other collections. I would be particularly interested to know if they have manuscript annotations.\\ \\ [[alison.walker@bl.uk|Alison Walker]] \\ British Library, London| | |[[http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/:resources:provenance:fenton_figure_7.jpg|{{:resources:provenance:fenton_thumb.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|**Joseph Fenton (1565/70--1634)** was a London surgeon.\\ Items from his substantial library are easily identified by his signature, usually accompanied by his motto 'Sustine abstine', or an alternative motto 'Sors mea mors' and a number, often in a rectangle, at the top of the title page.|Many volumes were acquired by Sir Hans Sloane and are now in the British Library. (see [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane|http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane]], where over 300 Fenton items are listed).|Sloane did not acquire the whole library and I am interested in locating Fenton books in other collections. I would be particularly interested to know if they have manuscript annotations.\\ \\ [[alison.walker@bl.uk|Alison Walker]] \\ British Library, London| |
|7 September 2009 |||| | |7 September 2009 |||| |
|[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3894844399/in/set-72157622154559201/ |{{ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3894844399_afefc586c0.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Arms stamped on both covers of //Palmerino d'Oliva//, Venice, Tramezino, 1552.\\ \\ Related arms (engraved) are printed on the front free endpaper of the volume (see below).|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library |[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Palmerino binding stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3894844399/in/set-72157622154559201/ |{{ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/3894844399_afefc586c0.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Arms stamped on both covers of //Palmerino d'Oliva//, Venice, Tramezino, 1552.\\ \\ Related arms (engraved) are printed on the front free endpaper of the volume (see below).|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library |[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Palmerino binding stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library| |
|[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3832431852/in/set-72157621945824929/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3832431852_0be7301624.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper of Charles Rogers's translation of Dante's //Inferno// (London, 1782). \\ "W. Cotton" is William Cotton (1794--1863), whose grandfather was Rogers's brother-in-law. \\ But who is "**JD**"?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Who is JD?|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library\\ ------------------------\\ Christopher Edwards tentatively identifies “JD” as John Disney (1779--1857); Disney's papers are held at Dr Williams’s Library, London (closed at present).\\ -------------------------\\ Maureen Attrill (Keeper of Art, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK) suggests Rev. James Dallaway, topographical writer (1763--1834), who was a friend of William Cotton.| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3832431852/in/set-72157621945824929/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3832431852_0be7301624.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper of Charles Rogers's translation of Dante's //Inferno// (London, 1782). \\ "W. Cotton" is William Cotton (1794--1863), whose grandfather was Rogers's brother-in-law. \\ But who is "**JD**"?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Who is JD?|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library\\ ------------------------\\ Christopher Edwards tentatively identifies “JD” as John Disney (1779--1857); Disney's papers are held at Dr Williams’s Library, London (closed at present).\\ -------------------------\\ Maureen Attrill (Keeper of Art, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK) suggests Rev. James Dallaway, topographical writer (1763--1834), who was a friend of William Cotton.| |
|19 July 2009 |||| | |19 July 2009 |||| |
|[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3669559178/sizes/l/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3669559178_dc201e120f_m.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|Identification the book stamp of a European ducal (?) library on flyleaf. |//Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumq[ue] gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia//, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1633.|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Arabia book stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ (Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Mass.)| | |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3669559178/sizes/l/|{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3669559178_dc201e120f_m.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|Identification the book stamp of a European ducal (?) library on flyleaf.|//Arabia, seu Arabum vicinarumq[ue] gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta et historia//, Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1633.|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Arabia book stamp|John Lancaster]]\\ (Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, Amherst, Mass.)| |
|16 July 2009 |||| | |16 July 2009 |||| |
|**Sum Barnardi Hampton eiusque amicorum**\\ \\ Hast[e] not to[o] hastely |Books with the inscription and/or motto of Barnard Hampton, mid-16th-century clerk to the Privy Council. |Dennis Rhodes has so far traced five books which belonged to Hampton's library.|Please send further examples of books with Barnard Hampton's signature or motto to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Barnard Hampton|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.| | |**Sum Barnardi Hampton eiusque amicorum**\\ \\ Hast[e] not to[o] hastely |Books with the inscription and/or motto of Barnard Hampton, mid-16th-century clerk to the Privy Council. |Dennis Rhodes has so far traced five books which belonged to Hampton's library.|Please send further examples of books with Barnard Hampton's signature or motto to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Barnard Hampton|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.| |
|14 July 2009 |||| | |14 July 2009 |||| |
|**Bibliotheca Windhagiana**|The library of the mid-17th-century Austrian aristocrat Johann Joachim Entzmüller (1600–1678), Freiherr von und zu Windhag, which was later given to the University Library in Vienna in 1787.| Dennis Rhodes has traced over 30 books which once belonged to this important collection.\\ \\ Dennis Rhodes, ‘Bibliotheca Windhagiana’, //Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2009//, p.307--312.|Please send further examples of books from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Windhag|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.\\ \\ Dr Klaus Graf has discovered a number of additional items from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana: see [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5866759/]].| | |**Bibliotheca Windhagiana**|The library of the mid-17th-century Austrian aristocrat Johann Joachim Entzmüller (1600–1678), Freiherr von und zu Windhag, which was later given to the University Library in Vienna in 1787. |Dennis Rhodes has traced over 30 books which once belonged to this important collection.\\ \\ Dennis Rhodes, ‘Bibliotheca Windhagiana’, //Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2009//, p.307--312.|Please send further examples of books from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana to\\ [[David@djshaw.co.uk?subject=Windhag|David@djshaw.co.uk]]\\ on behalf of Dennis Rhodes.\\ \\ Dr Klaus Graf has discovered a number of additional items from the Bibliotheca Windhagiana at [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5866759]].| |
|29 June 2009 |||| | |29 June 2009 |||| |
|{{:resources:provenance:carmelites.jpg?120 |Click for larger image}}|Can anyone identify the Discalced Carmelite house in this inscription?\\ //**Ex libris conuentus** //{{:resources:provenance:carmelites_query.jpg?120}}\\ //**Carmelit. discalceat**//|//L'histoire ethiopique de Heliodore//, Paris, Toussaincts du Bray, 1609.|[[francesca.galligan@ouls.ox.ac.uk]], Bodleian Library, Oxford\\ ----------------------------- \\ Chris Coppens suggests Haughton-le-Skene (Nottinghamshire, England) but David Shaw thinks that this Carmelite house was no longer in existence when the book was printed (1609).| | |{{:resources:provenance:carmelites.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|Can anyone identify the Discalced Carmelite house in this inscription?\\ //**Ex libris conuentus** //{{:resources:provenance:carmelites_query.jpg?120}}\\ //**Carmelit. discalceat**//|//L'histoire ethiopique de Heliodore//, Paris, Toussaincts du Bray, 1609.|[[francesca.galligan@ouls.ox.ac.uk]], Bodleian Library, Oxford\\ ----------------------------- \\ Chris Coppens suggests Haughton-le-Skene (Nottinghamshire, England) but David Shaw thinks that this Carmelite house was no longer in existence when the book was printed (1609).| |
|12 May 2009 |||| | |12 May 2009 |||| |
|{{:resources:provenance:thistly_lions_at_mmw_1.jpg?70|Click for larger image}} {{:resources:provenance:thistly_lions_at_mmw_2.jpg?70|Click for larger image}}|Two armorial shields with lions and thistles, from two Aquinas editions, //Catena aurea//, Rome: Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1470 and //Quaestiones de xii quodlibet//, Rome: G. Lauer, c. 1470 in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, Den Haag.|Photos from //Vroege boekdrukkunst uit Italie//, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (1987) afb. 6 and 9.\\ The arms are 'azure, in chief a lion’s head guardant or, from its mouth three thistles proper inverted'.|The same arms appear on vol. 2 of the Sweynheym and Pannartz //Jerome//, Rome 1468, in the British Library (C.13.e.2).\\ \\ [[mcdavies@blueyonder.co.uk|Martin Davies]]| | |{{:resources:provenance:thistly_lions_at_mmw_1.jpg?70|Click for larger image}} {{:resources:provenance:thistly_lions_at_mmw_2.jpg?70|Click for larger image}}|Two armorial shields with lions and thistles, from two Aquinas editions, //Catena aurea//, Rome: Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1470 and //Quaestiones de xii quodlibet//, Rome: G. Lauer, c. 1470 in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, Den Haag.|Photos from //Vroege boekdrukkunst uit Italie//, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (1987) afb. 6 and 9.\\ The arms are 'azure, in chief a lion’s head guardant or, from its mouth three thistles proper inverted'.|The same arms appear on vol. 2 of the Sweynheym and Pannartz //Jerome//, Rome 1468, in the British Library (C.13.e.2).\\ \\ [[mcdavies@blueyonder.co.uk|Martin Davies]]| |
|1 April 2009 |||| | |1 April 2009 |||| |
|{{:resources:provenance:zamorano_2.jpg?100|Click for larger image }}\\ [[http://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/zamorano.jpg|complete image]]| Can you identify this library stamp from the following book?\\ \\ Rodrigo de Zamorano, //Compendia de la arte de navegar//, Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1581.| Search for "Zamorano" on the catalogue:\\ [[http://www.middletemplelibrary.org.uk/uhtbin/webcat|Middle Temple Library, London]]|[[r.satterley@middletemple.org.uk|Renae Satterley]]| | |{{:resources:provenance:zamorano_2.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}\\ [[http://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/zamorano.jpg|complete image]]| Can you identify this library stamp from the following book?\\ \\ Rodrigo de Zamorano, //Compendia de la arte de navegar//, Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1581.| Search for "Zamorano" on the catalogue:\\ [[http://www.middletemplelibrary.org.uk/uhtbin/webcat|Middle Temple Library, London]]|[[r.satterley@middletemple.org.uk|Renae Satterley]]| |
|26 February 2009 |||| | |26 February 2009 |||| |
|**624 MSN Aukt.\\ Nn 6/8 06.**\\ (pencil note in an incunable at the Stadtarchiv Olpe)| Can you help to identify the auction house which sold this book, probably in August 1906 ("8 06")|Johannes de Turrecremata, //Quaestiones//..., Köln: Petrus in Altis de Olpe, 23. August 1478 |[[thomas.wilhelmi@adw.uni-heidelberg.de|Thomas Wilhelmi]] | | |**624 MSN Aukt.\\ Nn 6/8 06.**\\ (pencil note in an incunable at the Stadtarchiv Olpe)| Can you help to identify the auction house which sold this book, probably in August 1906 ("8 06")|Johannes de Turrecremata, //Quaestiones//..., Köln: Petrus in Altis de Olpe, 23. August 1478 |[[thomas.wilhelmi@adw.uni-heidelberg.de|Thomas Wilhelmi]]| |
|13 February 2009 |||| | |13 February 2009 |||| |
|{{:resources:provenance:psalter_binding_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}} |[[http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/en/resources/provenance/psalter_binding.jpg|Blind-stamped binding]] dated 1598 with the initials **FSMA** (or **ESMA**) |Late 13th-century Psalter.\\ Continental binding? |[[mortensd@online.no|Morten Dahl]]\\ Kirkenes\\ Norway | | |{{:resources:provenance:psalter_binding_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}} |[[http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/en/resources/provenance/psalter_binding.jpg|Blind-stamped binding]] dated 1598 with the initials **FSMA** (or **ESMA**) |Late 13th-century Psalter.\\ Continental binding?|[[mortensd@online.no|Morten Dahl]]\\ Kirkenes\\ Norway | |
|4 December 2008 |||| | |4 December 2008 |||| |
|{{ http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/en/resources/provenance/abdij_park_armoiries_grattees_ovale.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}|**Bibliotheca Parchensis**:\\ Research on the present location of incunables from the library of Park Abbey near Leuven|[[:resources:provenance:bibliotheca_parchensis|Bibliotheca Parchensis]]|[[chris.coppens@bib.kuleuven.be|Christian Coppens]]| | |{{http://www.cerl.org/web/_media/en/resources/provenance/abdij_park_armoiries_grattees_ovale.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}|**Bibliotheca Parchensis**:\\ Research on the present location of incunables from the library of Park Abbey near Leuven|[[:resources:provenance:bibliotheca_parchensis|Bibliotheca Parchensis]]|[[chris.coppens@bib.kuleuven.be|Christian Coppens]]| |
| **We can display your query here.** |||[[D.J.Shaw@cerl.org|David Shaw]] | | | **We can display your query here.** |||[[D.J.Shaw@cerl.org|David Shaw]] | |
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|7 December 2008 ||||30 December 2008| | |7 December 2008 ||||30 December 2008| |
| [[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales.jpg|{{http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|armorial book stamp (Welsh?)|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#Wales|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]| Philip Oldfield identifies this as the arms of the city of Rotterdam.\\ "Dutch arms appear frequently on prize books bound in vellum."\\ Same stamp in [[http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/rotterdam/rotterdam.htm|St John's College, Cambridge]].| | | [[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales.jpg|{{http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_A-5-10-Wales_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|armorial book stamp (Welsh?)|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#Wales|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]| Philip Oldfield identifies this as the arms of the city of Rotterdam.\\ "Dutch arms appear frequently on prize books bound in vellum."\\ Same stamp in [[http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/rotterdam/rotterdam.htm|St John's College, Cambridge]].| |
| **We can display your query here.** |||[[D.J.Shaw@cerl.org|David Shaw]] | | | | **We can display your query here.** |||[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]] | | |