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| |18 October 2009 |||| | |18 October 2009 |||| |
| |[[{{:resources:provenance:aldo-binding_t.jpg?110|Click for larger image}}]] |Identification of binding stamp, possibly French or Italian. The two works in the volume are printed by Aldus.|Petro Bembo, //Gli Asolani// (1515) bound with Jacopo Sannazaro, //Arcadia// (1514).|[[BN934@AOL.COM?=Aldus binding|Bella Neyman]]| | |{{:resources:provenance:aldo-binding_t.jpg?110|Click for larger image}} |Identification of binding stamp, possibly French or Italian. The two works in the volume are printed by Aldus.|Petro Bembo, //Gli Asolani// (1515) bound with Jacopo Sannazaro, //Arcadia// (1514).|[[BN934@AOL.COM?=Aldus binding|Bella Neyman]]| |
| |12 October 2009 |||| | |12 October 2009 |||| |
| |{{:resources:provenance:enigmatique.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|The distinctive gold tooling at the top of the armorial shield is known as a "Capo d'Angio" (in French: "Chef d'Anjou") -- a chief of allegiance that was associated with the Guelphs.|The binding itself is Roman (it was bound by the so-called "Enigmatic Binder" (see Count Viani Tolomei, "Un atelier de reliure à Rome au XVIIe siècle: l'atelier dit `Enigmatique'" in: //Bulletin du Bibliophile// 1993, no. 2, pp. 322-343).|[[laird.rarebooks@gmail.com?subject=Capo d'Angio binding|Michael Laird]]\\ Michael Laird Rare Books\\ P.O. Box 299\\ Lockhart, TX,\\ 78644-0299\\ \\ Pietro Giacomo Bacci Aretino, //Vita di S. Filippo Neri Fiorentino Fondatore della Congregatione dell' Oratorio// (Rome, 1646).| | |{{:resources:provenance:enigmatique.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}|The distinctive gold tooling at the top of the armorial shield is known as a "Capo d'Angio" (in French: "Chef d'Anjou") -- a chief of allegiance that was associated with the Guelphs.|The binding itself is Roman (it was bound by the so-called "Enigmatic Binder" (see Count Viani Tolomei, "Un atelier de reliure à Rome au XVIIe siècle: l'atelier dit `Enigmatique'" in: //Bulletin du Bibliophile// 1993, no. 2, pp. 322-343).|[[laird.rarebooks@gmail.com?subject=Capo d'Angio binding|Michael Laird]]\\ Michael Laird Rare Books\\ P.O. Box 299\\ Lockhart, TX,\\ 78644-0299\\ \\ Pietro Giacomo Bacci Aretino, //Vita di S. Filippo Neri Fiorentino Fondatore della Congregatione dell' Oratorio// (Rome, 1646).| |
| |{{: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| |
| |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| | ||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| |
| |24 September 2009 |||| | |24 September 2009 |||| |
| |**Temple West**, early 19th cent.|Details needed concerning the former owner of two bindings of sheet music, chiefly glees, catches, rounds, etc. from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.\\ Watermark on binder's flyleaf "J Whatman 1813."|"T. West Esqr." lettered in gilt on binding cover label, apparently of the West family of Twickenham, which included Gilbert West, d. 1756, Temple West, d. 1757, and Temple West, d. 1783.|[[cape@indiana.edu?subject=Temple West|Stephen H. Cape]]\\ Lilly Library\\ Indiana University| | |**Temple West**, early 19th cent.|Details needed concerning the former owner of two bindings of sheet music, chiefly glees, catches, rounds, etc. from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.\\ Watermark on binder's flyleaf "J Whatman 1813."|"T. West Esqr." lettered in gilt on binding cover label, apparently of the West family of Twickenham, which included Gilbert West, d. 1756, Temple West, d. 1757, and Temple West, d. 1783.|[[cape@indiana.edu?subject=Temple West|Stephen H. Cape]]\\ Lilly Library\\ Indiana University| |
| |21 September 2009 |||| | |21 September 2009 |||| |
| |[[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| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3939674622/|{{https://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| | |[[: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| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3894844399/in/set-72157622154559201/ |{{ https://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/3894845479/in/set-72157622154559201/ |{{ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/3894845479_65cba45297.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Not exactly a bookplate, these arms are printed on one leaf of a bifolium that was used as endpapers; the arms are on the recto of the front free endpaper.\\ They are related to the gilt-stamped arms on the cover of the volume (above).|On //Palmerino d'Oliva//, Venice, Tramezino, 1552.\\ \\ 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| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3894845479/in/set-72157622154559201/ |{{ https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/3894845479_65cba45297.jpg?120|Click for larger image}}]]|Not exactly a bookplate, these arms are printed on one leaf of a bifolium that was used as endpapers; the arms are on the recto of the front free endpaper.\\ They are related to the gilt-stamped arms on the cover of the volume (above).|On //Palmerino d'Oliva//, Venice, Tramezino, 1552.\\ \\ 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| |
| |18 August 2009 |||| | |18 August 2009 |||| |
| |[[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.| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3832431852/in/set-72157621945824929/|{{ https://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.)| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3669559178/sizes/l/|{{ https://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.| |
| |**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}} |[[https://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]]| | |{{https://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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