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| |{{: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 |||| |
| ||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| |
| |{{: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 | | |{{: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 |||| |
| |{{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]]| | | |**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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| |17 October 2009 ||||5 May 2010| | |17 October 2009 ||||5 May 2010| |
| |[[http://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/supralibros_1625.jpg|{{ :resources:provenance:wappen_supralibros.jpg?120 |Click for complete image}}]]|Identification requested for this armorial binding on a book of 1627 purchased in Innsbruck.\\ \\ [[http://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/wappen_supralibros.jpg|Click for larger image of stamp]]|Matthaeus Rader S.J., //Ad. M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton libros omnes, plenis commentariis, nouo studio confectis//, Moguntiae : sumptibus Ioannis Kinckii, bibliop. Colon. : excudebat Hermannus Meresius, 1627.|[[villanivalentin@libero.it?subject=1627 binding|Roberto Rossi]]|David Pearson has identified the Arms of A.-B. Hinlopin of Amsterdam. The same arms can found on a Bookplate at the University of Virginia Library, shelfmark Gordon 1600.M44.| | |[[https://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/supralibros_1625.jpg|{{ :resources:provenance:wappen_supralibros.jpg?120 |Click for complete image}}]]|Identification requested for this armorial binding on a book of 1627 purchased in Innsbruck.\\ \\ [[https://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/wappen_supralibros.jpg|Click for larger image of stamp]]|Matthaeus Rader S.J., //Ad. M. Valerii Martialis epigrammaton libros omnes, plenis commentariis, nouo studio confectis//, Moguntiae : sumptibus Ioannis Kinckii, bibliop. Colon. : excudebat Hermannus Meresius, 1627.|[[villanivalentin@libero.it?subject=1627 binding|Roberto Rossi]]|David Pearson has identified the Arms of A.-B. Hinlopin of Amsterdam. The same arms can found on a Bookplate at the University of Virginia Library, shelfmark Gordon 1600.M44.| |
| |18 August 2009 ||||21 October 2009| | |18 August 2009 ||||21 October 2009| |
| |[[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3831632375/in/set-72157622070282772/|{{ http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/3831632375_cdeddb893e.jpg?110 |Click for larger image}}]] |Title-page inscription : "**Coll. Nobil. Neap.**", \\ On the title page of Lodovico Domenichi's //Dialoghi// (Venice: Giolito, 1562).\\ Is this the Jesuit college at Naples?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Naples inscription|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library|Chris Coppens confirms that this is the Collegio dei Nobili in Naples| | |[[https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliography/3831632375/in/set-72157622070282772/|{{ https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/3831632375_cdeddb893e.jpg?110 |Click for larger image}}]] |Title-page inscription : "**Coll. Nobil. Neap.**", \\ On the title page of Lodovico Domenichi's //Dialoghi// (Venice: Giolito, 1562).\\ Is this the Jesuit college at Naples?|The book is in the Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Library, Northampton, Mass. USA|[[jlancaster@amherst.edu?subject=Naples inscription|John Lancaster]]\\ Curator of Special Collections, Emeritus, Amherst College Library|Chris Coppens confirms that this is the Collegio dei Nobili in Naples| |
| |23 September 2009 ||||12 October 2009| | |23 September 2009 ||||12 October 2009| |
| |{{ :resources:provenance:678_f_1_exlibris.jpg?120 |Click for larger image}}|Engraved bookplate with the name **M. de Lançon** and the motto **Fortitudine et charitate** in Antoine Godeau, //Histoire de l'eglise// (Paris, 1678).\\ The title page has the ownership inscription "J de pouilly De Lancon".|The motto is that of the noble family Mensdorff-Pouilly from Lorraine.\\ Internet searches suggest that the owner is Jacques Pouilly de Lançon who served as //mestre de camp// (colonel) in the Royal Navarre cavalry regiment in 1672/1.|[[Annelen.Ottermann@stadt.mainz.de?subject=Pouilly bookplate|Annelen Ottermann]], \\ Abteilungsleiterin Handschriften, Rara, Alte Drucke, \\ Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, Mainz|Has anyone encountered further examples of this bookplate in their collections?| | |{{ :resources:provenance:678_f_1_exlibris.jpg?120 |Click for larger image}}|Engraved bookplate with the name **M. de Lançon** and the motto **Fortitudine et charitate** in Antoine Godeau, //Histoire de l'eglise// (Paris, 1678).\\ The title page has the ownership inscription "J de pouilly De Lancon".|The motto is that of the noble family Mensdorff-Pouilly from Lorraine.\\ Internet searches suggest that the owner is Jacques Pouilly de Lançon who served as //mestre de camp// (colonel) in the Royal Navarre cavalry regiment in 1672/1.|[[Annelen.Ottermann@stadt.mainz.de?subject=Pouilly bookplate|Annelen Ottermann]], \\ Abteilungsleiterin Handschriften, Rara, Alte Drucke, \\ Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, Mainz|Has anyone encountered further examples of this bookplate in their collections?| |
| |{{:resources:provenance:mag-p_12.1699voorplat.jpg?63 |front board: Click for larger image }} {{ :resources:provenance:mag-p_12.1699achterplat.jpg?63|back board: Click for larger image}}|Are these binding stamps from a prize binding?\\ Johann Friedrich Burg, //Chrestomathia patristica Graeca//, Vratislaviae: Apud Joannem Jacobum Kornium, 1742-1756|Chris Coppens identifies the arms of Frederick II of Prussia (1712--1786), probably Poznan-related, and notes that the binder applied the stamp with the keys upside-down.|[[goran.proot@ua.ac.be|Goran Proot]]\\ \\ Catalogue entry:\\ [[http://anet.ua.ac.be/record/opacua/c:lvd:6835256|Historical Collections, University Library, Antwerp]]|The arms identified by Chris Coppens.\\ \\ Not yet confirmed as a prize binding.| | |{{:resources:provenance:mag-p_12.1699voorplat.jpg?63 |front board: Click for larger image }} {{ :resources:provenance:mag-p_12.1699achterplat.jpg?63|back board: Click for larger image}}|Are these binding stamps from a prize binding?\\ Johann Friedrich Burg, //Chrestomathia patristica Graeca//, Vratislaviae: Apud Joannem Jacobum Kornium, 1742-1756|Chris Coppens identifies the arms of Frederick II of Prussia (1712--1786), probably Poznan-related, and notes that the binder applied the stamp with the keys upside-down.|[[goran.proot@ua.ac.be|Goran Proot]]\\ \\ Catalogue entry:\\ [[http://anet.ua.ac.be/record/opacua/c:lvd:6835256|Historical Collections, University Library, Antwerp]]|The arms identified by Chris Coppens.\\ \\ Not yet confirmed as a prize binding.| |
| |4 April 2009 |||| 14 June 2009| | |4 April 2009 |||| 14 June 2009| |
| |{{ http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3426473339_117cc8795c_o.jpg?100 |Click for larger image }}|1472 Latin Bible printed by Peter Schoeffer in Mainz.\\ Pigskin binding with a gilt, armorial stamp (episcopal or abbatial) with 'I. I. G. P. S.'| The stamp is apparently as recorded by Walsh, Harvard (15th Century Books) no. 810 in a copy of Jacobus de Voragine, //Legenda aurea// [Nuremberg: Georg Stuchs, 1 October 1488]. |[[anthony.tedeschi@gmail.com|Anthony Tedeschi]]\\ Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand | I. I. G. P. S. has been identified in a collective effort by Klaus Graf, Manfred Huiskes and Bernd-Christoph Kämper [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5760909/|(Archivalia)]] as //Johann Joseph Glätzl, Propst zu Sternberg//, mid-18th century| | |{{ https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3426473339_117cc8795c_o.jpg?100 |Click for larger image }}|1472 Latin Bible printed by Peter Schoeffer in Mainz.\\ Pigskin binding with a gilt, armorial stamp (episcopal or abbatial) with 'I. I. G. P. S.'| The stamp is apparently as recorded by Walsh, Harvard (15th Century Books) no. 810 in a copy of Jacobus de Voragine, //Legenda aurea// [Nuremberg: Georg Stuchs, 1 October 1488]. |[[anthony.tedeschi@gmail.com|Anthony Tedeschi]]\\ Dunedin Public Libraries, New Zealand | I. I. G. P. S. has been identified in a collective effort by Klaus Graf, Manfred Huiskes and Bernd-Christoph Kämper [[http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5760909/|(Archivalia)]] as //Johann Joseph Glätzl, Propst zu Sternberg//, mid-18th century| |
| |4 April 2009 |||| 5 April 2009| | |4 April 2009 |||| 5 April 2009| |
| |{{ :resources:provenance:dnb-dbsm-klemm-iv-216-2_1_arms.jpg?100 |Click for larger image}} |Harleian style binding. \\ Coat of arms very similar to that of Henrietta Cavendish Harley (1694-1755) |//Book of Common Prayer//, London, 1687\\ Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig\\ \\ [[http://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/dnb-dbsm-klemm-iv-216-2_1_cover.jpg|Image of whole cover]]| [[B.Ruediger@d-nb.de|Bettina Rüdiger]]\\ \\ [[http://www.d-nb.de/sammlungen/dbsm/dbsm.htm|Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum]]|Philip Oldfield (University of Toronto Library) confirms that these are the arms of Henrietta Harley. He is creating a database of British armorial bindings, based on work commenced by the late John Morris. | | |{{ :resources:provenance:dnb-dbsm-klemm-iv-216-2_1_arms.jpg?100 |Click for larger image}} |Harleian style binding. \\ Coat of arms very similar to that of Henrietta Cavendish Harley (1694-1755) |//Book of Common Prayer//, London, 1687\\ Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig\\ \\ [[https://www.cerl.org/web/_detail/en/resources/provenance/dnb-dbsm-klemm-iv-216-2_1_cover.jpg|Image of whole cover]]| [[B.Ruediger@d-nb.de|Bettina Rüdiger]]\\ \\ [[http://www.d-nb.de/sammlungen/dbsm/dbsm.htm|Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum]]|Philip Oldfield (University of Toronto Library) confirms that these are the arms of Henrietta Harley. He is creating a database of British armorial bindings, based on work commenced by the late John Morris. | |
| |5 February 2009 |||| 1 April 2009 | | |5 February 2009 |||| 1 April 2009 | |
| |{{ :resources:provenance:g-stamp_t.jpg?100 |Click for larger image}}| royal or ducal book stamp?|Middle Temple Library, London |[[r.satterley@middletemple.org.uk|Renae Satterley]] |Identified by John Goldfinch:\\ book stamp from the library of the Earls of Guilford, probably Frederick North, 5th Earl.\\ [[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/manuscripts/guilford/|See the Guilford Project at the British Library]]. | | |{{ :resources:provenance:g-stamp_t.jpg?100 |Click for larger image}}| royal or ducal book stamp?|Middle Temple Library, London |[[r.satterley@middletemple.org.uk|Renae Satterley]] |Identified by John Goldfinch:\\ book stamp from the library of the Earls of Guilford, probably Frederick North, 5th Earl.\\ [[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/manuscripts/guilford/|See the Guilford Project at the British Library]]. | |
| |{{:resources:provenance:cardinal_s_hat.jpg?100|Click for larger image}} |red velvet binding with blind-stamped arms of a Cardinal |[[:resources:provenance:getijdenboek_paris_1500| Book of Hours, Paris, 1500]]| [[Marieke.vanDelft@KB.nl|Marieke van Delft]]|Identified by Chris Coppens:\\ The binding is from François de Mamez (d. 1648), canon and cantor at Ypres (Ieper).\\ See de Jonghe d'Ardoye, Havenith & Dansaert, //Armorial belge du bibliophile//, I, p.271. | | |{{:resources:provenance:cardinal_s_hat.jpg?100|Click for larger image}} |red velvet binding with blind-stamped arms of a Cardinal |[[:resources:provenance:getijdenboek_paris_1500| Book of Hours, Paris, 1500]]| [[Marieke.vanDelft@KB.nl|Marieke van Delft]]|Identified by Chris Coppens:\\ The binding is from François de Mamez (d. 1648), canon and cantor at Ypres (Ieper).\\ See de Jonghe d'Ardoye, Havenith & Dansaert, //Armorial belge du bibliophile//, I, p.271. | |
| |25 January 2009 |||| 5 February 2009 | | |25 January 2009 |||| 5 February 2009 | |
| |{{http://lh4.ggpht.com/_QsN_QSdoIyk/SQigIocR05I/AAAAAAAAABw/3SS1wmOkjqk/s144/DSCN2052.JPG?100|Click for larger image}} |book stamp on title page:\\ KÖNIGLICHES STAATS= EIGENTHUM\\ \\ Identified from //Bibliotheksstempel // (Berlin, 1998) p. 64, no. 1|Mendham Collection, Canterbury Cathedral Library.\\ \\ [[http://picasaweb.google.com/DavidShaw61/MendhamProvGerman?authkey=IlQniScnSqc#5262632452944083122|Title page]] |[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]|This stamp was put on books from libraries of secularised religious houses in the Dillingen area c.1830 before their incorporation in the Studienbibliothek Dillingen or disposal as duplicates.\\ Identified by Chris Coppens via the [[https://dlist.server.uni-frankfurt.de/mailman/listinfo/provenienz|Provenienz]] discussion list.| | | |book stamp on title page:\\ KÖNIGLICHES STAATS= EIGENTHUM\\ \\ Identified from //Bibliotheksstempel // (Berlin, 1998) p. 64, no. 1|Mendham Collection, Canterbury Cathedral Library.\\ \\ [[https://picasaweb.google.com/DavidShaw61/MendhamProvGerman?authkey=IlQniScnSqc#5262632452944083122|Title page]] |[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]|This stamp was put on books from libraries of secularised religious houses in the Dillingen area c.1830 before their incorporation in the Studienbibliothek Dillingen or disposal as duplicates.\\ Identified by Chris Coppens via the [[https://dlist.server.uni-frankfurt.de/mailman/listinfo/provenienz|Provenienz]] discussion list.| |
| |7 December 2008|||| | | |7 December 2008|||| | |
| |[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_B-5-3-cardinal.jpg|{{http://www.djshaw.co.uk/provpics/W_B-5-3-cardinal_t.jpg?100|Click for larger image}}]]|armorial binding stamp of a (French?) cardinal.|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#cardinal|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]|Cardinal Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1671-1710) (information from Nicolas Malais)\\ [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/Results.aspx?SearchType=AlphabeticSearch&ListType=Owner&Value=2677|Four examples in red morocco]] (British Library)| | | |armorial binding stamp of a (French?) cardinal.|[[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantarmorial.htm#cardinal|Canterbury Cathedral]]|[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]]|Cardinal Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1671-1710) (information from Nicolas Malais)\\ [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/Results.aspx?SearchType=AlphabeticSearch&ListType=Owner&Value=2677|Four examples in red morocco]] (British Library)| |
| |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]].| | | |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.** |||[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]] | | | | **We can display your query here.** |||[[david@djshaw.co.uk|David Shaw]] | | |
