Autumn 2020 1 of 28 LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS 74 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT
Cadogan Autumn 2020 1 of 28 LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS 74 Mayton Street, London N7 6QT
AUTUMN 2020
MOOTS IN MODENA
1. [Academic exercises - canon law] [Modena]: Casus conscientiae in Mutinensi dioecesi discutiendi, anno 1658. Mutinae, ex typographia Andreae Cassiani [c.1658]. Quarto (18.6 cms. x 13.7 cms.), pp. 14 [2]. With final blank. Title-page with woodcut armorial of Ettore Molza (d. 1679), Bishop of Modena. Woodcut decorations. Browning, waterstaining, bound in contemporary beige card wrappers, also waterstained, split at spine. Canon-law questions for each month of the year 1658, used in the city of Modena. These were academic exercises (like moots), probably undertaken by selected candidates at a monthly event, and the text offers some problematic issues. A question posed for March concerns church law and sex work. A prince learns that some nefarious crimes have been committed by the troops because apparently of a lack of women. Can he order the city’s public prostitutes to their work? There are also legal problems to argue concerning fasting. One question concerns one Flora, at a feast the night before a fasting-day, who continues to eat meat for an eighth of a stroke of the clock as it turns midnight. In all, four of the 24 questions concern issues relating to fasting, two concern cases relating to sex workers, with one further concerning an inaccurate confession of premarital sex between a young man and woman; there is also one concerning a fatal duel, one concerning a clergyman involuntarily watching theatre performances, and one, the nature of the vows of an Ursuline nun. Questions come with citations from authorities, that needed to be studied to address the question. Not in SBN or OCLC. SBN has a comparable pamphlet of ‘Casus conscientiae’ for Modena 1681 (one copy). [ref: 3623 ] $515
WOMEN ART ACADEMICIANS, BOSCOVICH AND MORE
2. [Art academies. Rome. Accademia di San Luca] Catalogo de signori officiali ed accademici di merito, e d’onore viventi dell’ insigne, e celebre accademia delle nobili tre belle arti, pittura, scultura, ed architettura in Roma sotto li auspicii del glorioso San Luca Evangelista nella chiesa di Santa Martina dell’ anno M.DCC.LIV. In Roma, per il Chracas (Caterina Chracas) 1754. Broadside, 51.3 cms. x 38.2 cms., printed in letterpress, title and seven columns below, with single-line woodcut dividers, and with etched and engraved emblem of the academy at top centre, the whole within woodcut decorative borders. Light browning, very well-preserved, fold-lines and stab-holes (the item was folded into four and then stabbed for stitching at inner margin). Unlocated broadside of Rome’s art academy, the Accademia di San Luca, showing the members in the year 1754. This is a copy of an annual notice, of which few were probably +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 2 of 28
printed, as the sheet was intended only for affixing in the institution’s building. Examples have been recorded in the archives of the academy for the years 1747, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1764, 1790, 1793, 1802, and 1806 (Busiri-Vici), and one from 1781 is in the Bibliotheca Hertziana, also in Rome (OCLC). Members in 1754, we learn, included the painter and miniaturist Maria Felice Tibaldi (1707-1770) and the miniatures painter Veronica Stern (1717-1801). Present in the lists also is the painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779). The ‘prince’ of the academy was the prominent architect Ferdinando Fuga (1699-1782). His deputy was the sculptor, Filippo della Valle (1698-1768). Officers of the academy also included Fuga’s colleague the architect Luigi Vanvitelli (Lodewijk van Wittel) (1700-1773). The academy’s assessors of pictures were the painters Sebastiano Conca (1680-1764) and Placido Costanzi (1702-1759). Honorary academicians included the Duchess of Zagarolo, Maria Rospigliosi, and the Duchess of Gravina, Maria Giacinta Ruspoli Orsini (1799-1757). Also honoured were the French mathematicians in Rome François Jacquier (1711-1788) and Thomas Leseur (1703-1770), and their illustrious and celebrated colleague, the physicist and polymath Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711-1787). Caterina Chracas (d.1771) ran the Chracas firm of printers and newspaper publishers that produced the present broadside for some forty years before her death. She succeeded Luca Antonio Chracas, her father. Not in SBN or OCLC, which show no copies of broadsides with this title outside Rome. Andrea Busiri-Vici, Sessantacinque anni delle scuole di belle arti della insigne e Pontificia Accademia Romana denominata di S. Luca: Memorie di un cattedratico decano e primo consigliere della classe architettonica nel terzo centenario della fondazione accademica (Rome, 1895), 45-46. On Caterina Chracas see The Theater That Was
+44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 3 of 28 Rome< NON-APOCALYPTIC REVELATION COMMENTARY, 1666! 3. [Bible. N.T. Book of Revelation. V-VIII] Worst, Octavius, O.F.M. Cap.: Liber Christus signatus septem sigillis, in quo sub figura Libri signati sigillis septem, quem vidit S. Ioann. c. 5. Apocalip. septem festa principalia Christi, quae sunt Nativitas, Circuncisio, Epiphania, Pascha, Ascensio, Pentecostes, & Transfiguratio, sub figura septem sigillorum, per expositiones morales elucidantur. His addimus septem expositiones morales super Mysteria inuentæ, & exaltatæ Sanctæ Crucis, SS. Trinitatis, & nominis Iesu, quae sunt folia huius Libri Christi. Authore r.p. Octauio VVorst Amstelodamo prædicatore Capuccino. Romae, typis Philippi M. Mancini 1666. First edition. Quarto (21.8 cms. x 15.2 cms.), pp. [48], 790, [30]. Woodcut decoration and initials. Light or medium browning and foxing, slight worming to blank gutters (and to blank bottom margin at very end). Bound in contemporary stiffened vellum, covers double-ruled in gilt with flowers in gilt to corners and central gilt lozenge, spine compartments double-ruled with gilt stars, title and author in manuscript to spine and title in manuscript to head of front cover, edges sprinkled red (binding loosening from text block, shelf label removed from foot of spine). Provenance: 1. early inscription to title-page, “De La Scala”, manuscript shelfmark possibly from same time to front pastedown. 2. Three stamps to title-page, one (but likely all three) of Bibliotheca FF. Minorum Quebec. A label with manuscript shelfmark and a numerical code in red crayon also to front pastedown. First edition, an unusual book interpreting the opening of the Seven Seals as described in the New Testament Book of Revelation, chapters V-VIII. The interpretations are moral and the seals are characterised as relating to the celebrations of Christ’s birth, circumcision, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost and Transfiguration. It seems likely that this book, which is comparatively quite positive in content, was issued in this year in the face of Protestants who, in an apocalyptic tradition, were using the Book of Revelation to prophesy the fall of Rome in 1666 (Brady). Catholic commentaries from this time on the Book of Revelation are unusual, and a Catholic Revelation commentary printed in Rome, 1666 is a great coincidence. Octavius Worst (d.1671) was a Capuchin monk from Amsterdam, and an anti-Protestant writer. He dedicates his work “in the city” (i.e. Rome) to Marzio Ginetti (1585-1671), Rome’s Cardinal Vicar. SBN: IT\ICCU\UM1E\009426. OCLC shows eight +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 4 of 28 locations outside Italy, of which Notre Dame (IN) and British Library the only two outside mainland Europe. On the Protestant prophecies, see David Brady, ‘1666: the year of the beast’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 61 (1979), 314-336. [ref: 3621 ] $1250 JUST PRICE, AND MORE - 14TH-CENTURY ENDPAPERS 4. Biel, Gabriel [Petrus Lombardus] [Steinbach, Wendelin]: Repertorium generale et succinctum: verumtamen valde utile atque necessarium contentorum in quatuor collectoriis super quatuor libros Sententiarum. [Colophon: Lyon] [Jean Clein] [1519, 24 Sept.] Folio (c.30 cms. x c.21 cms. in binding), 2 vols., fols. [198]; [256]. Vol. II bound with the two blanks, A+8 and the final leaf BBB6. First title-page with letterpress in red, with woodcut illustrated border featuring putti, a grotesque and vegetation, and with large woodcut device of Jean Clein at centre. Woodcut decorated initials. Text printed in two columns, with printed side- notes. Four section-titles, blank with simple title. Light to medium spotting and browning, some worming, particularly to top of title-page and headline at beginning, and to blank gutters (worming in text otherwise almost entirely confined to a single hole straight through the second vol.) Bound in early vellum, fore-edge cover extensions, separate strip of vellum pasted over each spine, titles to spines and to bottom edges, edges mottled red (ties removed, tearing to vellum). Endleaves to vol. I comprise an almost complete bifolium, single leaf 290 x 160 mm, written space originally c. 235 x 152 mm, written in double columns of 53 lines in two sizes of a rounded Italian gothic bookhand, ruled in plummet, two initials in red and blue with purple and red penwork respectively, paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, small initials touched in yellow, horizontal catchword on verso of one leaf; outer margins trimmed with loss of part of outer column of text (Italy (quite possibly the south), late 14th century). The text identified as Giles of Rome, Theoremata de esse et essentia (see below). Inscriptions and stamps: 1. [Dns] Gaspar Liccus 2. Cappuccini di S. Effrem [vol. II: de Napoli]. 3. Ilchester C.S.S.R. Bibliotheca Mt. St. Alphonsus, N.Y. Shelf labels of this last, also library borrowing pockets with borrowing cards(!) Vol. II also with pencil inscription of F.R. Reux[?] Reprint of the first edition (Tübingen 1501) of this important work of the leading scholastic philosopher of the eve of the Reformation, and co-founder of the University of Tübingen, Gabriel Biel (c.1418-1495). The text had also been printed twice, in Lyon and Paris, 1514 (USTC). The first volume of our copy is bound +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 5 of 28 with endpapers from the late fourteenth century from a different philosophical commentary, a metaphysical work called Theoremata de esse et essentia by Giles of Rome (Egidio Colonna, d.1316). Biel’s work is a commentary on the standard textbook of medieval theology, the four books of ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard (c.1096-1160). Martin Luther knew his works well, and his annotated copy of the present book (Lyon, also Jean Clein, 1514) is still extant. He wrote his treatise on free will in strong part against him (Biechler). Biel includes in the text what became a separate treatise ‘on the power and utility of money’, where, in an important statement of a modernising ‘just price’ theory, he tries to dissociate the economics of commerce from the morality of theology, and argues that ‘just price’ is determined by supply and demand rather than by moral theology. He holds that the merchant is a necessary member of society contributing to its material well- being (Campbell). Biel’s influence was important in the sixteenth-century Jesuit school of Salamanca (Luscombe, Synan). A forward, Tübingen 1501, is written by his standard editor, and former pupil, Wendelin Steinbach, and two poems are provided by the Tübingen professor, and humanist, Heinrich Bebel (1472-1518). Early provenance evidence for our copy shows its being in southern Italy, where, indeed, the book may have been bound and the manuscript - which we describe above - produced which was later used for endpapers. The lettering to bottom edges of our volumes has a Spanish style which might be found in the Kingdom of Naples. The first title-page to each volume has the inscription of Gaspar Liccus. This may be Gaspar Liccus (d.1619), a learned priest of Palermo. He wrote plays, on the martyrdom of St. Christina and the creation of the world (published), and (unpublished) on the martyrdom of St. Catherine (Mongitore). The subsequent owner of the volumes was the Capuchin monastery of St. Ephrem in Naples. This community was founded in 1572 and suppressed in 1863. An early lay member was Jeremiah of Wallachia (1556-1625), beatified in 1983. Incunabula from this monastic library can now be found at the University of Glasgow, and at the Bodleian in Oxford. With the monastery’s suppression, our book was sent to America, to the Redemptorist seminary for priests-in- training of Ilchester in Maryland, which was founded in 1868. In 1907, the student-priests of Ilchester were transferred to a seminary in Esopus, New York, called Mount St. Alphonsus, and our volumes went too. That institution was closed in 2012 (although it had ceased to be a seminary in 1985). The Theoremata de esse et essentia (’Essays on being and essence’) was composed between 1278 and 1285 (del Punta et al.) It comprises 22 chapters, of which, in our endpapers, we have headings and some text from numbers eight, nine and ten, and some text from chapter seven (Hocedez). It was a reasonably rare work in the Middle Ages, overlooked (then as now) in favour of other books of this important philosopher, who was also archbishop of Bourges. The 20th-century editor, +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 6 of 28 Edgar Hocedez, remarked on its rarity. He studied nine manuscripts, from Erfurt (two), Paris, the Vatican, Oxford, Venice, Vienna, Erlangen and Munich. If the present fragments are originally from the kingdom of Naples they would have formed part of a southern Italian exemplar. Giles’ text was printed in Leipzig (1493, 1495), Venice (1503) and Bologna (1522), and a short commentary on it appeared in Kraków, 1513. Jean Clein (Johannes Schwab) (c.1466-1530), our printer, came from Germany to the emerging printing capital of Lyon in around 1490. In our colophon, as in other publications, he calls himself “the German” (Alemannus). Between 1493 and 1498 he was foreman in the workshop of Jean Trechsel of Lyon (d. 1498), who had himself come from Mainz. Clein was to marry Trechsel’s widow (BNF). Adams B2003. USTC 145132. OCLC shows copies outside European mainland at Newberry, State Library of Victoria, Oxford, and York (besides the Cambridge (Adams) copy). James A. Biechler, ‘Gabriel Biel on ‘liberum arbitrium’: prelude to Luther’s ‘De servo arbitrio’’. The Thomist, 34/1 (1970), 114-127. Gordon Campbell, ‘Biel, Gabriel’ in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (online edition, 2005). D.E. Luscombe, ‘Natural morality and natural law’, in N. Kretzmann, A. Kenny, J. Pinborg, E. Stump, eds., The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge 1997), 705-719, see 716. Edward A. Synan, ‘Biel, Gabriel’, in Hans J. Hillebrand, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (online edition, 2005). Antonino Mongitore, Bibliotheca Sicula (2 vols., Palermo 1707-14), I, 251-252. On Giles of Rome and the Theoremata de esse et essentia see Edgar Hocedez, S.J., ed., Aegidii Romani theoremata de esse et essentia (Leuven, 1930), and Francesco Del Punta, S. Donati, C. Luna, ‘Egidio Romano’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani 43 (1993), online (accessed 28 July 2020). On Clein, see https://data.bnf.fr/fr/ 12239050/jean_clein/ (18 July 2020). [ref: 3633 ] $5000 SIGNED BY REVOLUTIONARY WAR GENERAL 5. Bouillé, François Claude Amour, marquis de: Letter, addressed to ‘Monsieur le Marquis’. [Begins: “J’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer quelques mémoires”]. Martinique 1781, 23 September. Manuscript, mostly comprising writing to first page of bifolium, 32 cms. x 19.7 cms. Address, eleven lines of text, sign-off and signature. Possible original filing code to front page also. To verso (i.e. second page), in small letters, “faire le travail”. To first and last pages, later notes in pencil. Foxing, light browning and staining. File copy, signed by the French colonial governor of Martinique, and military leader of the French West Indies, the marquis de Bouillé (1739-1800), of this American Revolutionary War-era letter, relating to military affairs on the island of Dominica. It accompanied a set of memoranda concerning the actions of the Viennese regiment that was stationed on that island. As was explained in the document that the original was sent with, Bouillé requests two crosses of St. Louis and one major’s commission for soldiers of the regiment. Bouillé had +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 7 of 28 overseen the French capture of Dominica from the British in 1778. In 1787, for his services, he was elected to the American Revolutionary Order of the Cincinnati. On account however of his support for Louis XVI, he went into exile from France with the Revolution there, and is actually named as an enemy in the French national anthem the ‘Marseillaise’. He died in London. On Bouillé, see article on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fran%C3%A7ois_Claude_Amour,_marquis_de_Bouill%C3%A9 (last accessed 13 October 2020). For a letter of George Washington, 1 June 1787, informing him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati, see https:// founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0193 (last accessed 13 October 2020). [ref: 3620 ] $450 SATIRICAL SONG COLLECTION 6. [Chansonnier] Recueil de chansons choisies depuis 1656 jusques à present 1736. [France] 1736. Manuscript, quarto (29.5 cms. x 24.2 cms.), pp. [30] 602. Includes 73 song tunes (airs) with musical notation. Light age-yellowing, occasional light spotting, bound in tan polished calf, gilt sides, dentelles and borders to covers, spine decorated in gilt, and with red morocco gilt label, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red (slight wear and scratching, rubbing and staining, a small loss at tail of spine). Blind embossments of Château de Houtain de Val, Brabant, armorial bookplate from the same. Folded in loosely at p. 155, a sheet, 20 cms. x 16 cms. with to recto a design in ink and wash, "cheminée pour un cabinet". A well-presented and well-preserved manuscript with interesting content, this is a collection of selected popular songs covering 80 years of French satire and current affairs. The book features some 135 songs, and there are 73 song tunes. “This collection contains the best of the best anecdotal songs from the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu to the present” (Advertisement). The songs are helpfully annotated with names and explanations to margins, and indexed by the names mentioned. When a tune is also to be used in another song, the compiler puts in a cross-reference. Contents include a song (510-515) dated 1726 and described in the margin as “on the young lords of the court strongly given to sodomy”, with names, as elsewhere, added. (Begins: “Aimable et tendre jeunesse”). The annotator notes one verse in it (p. 514) to concern the Comte de Sade, who was the father of the famous Marquis de Sade. There are satires on ladies of the royal court. One of these songs (457-466), it appears quite bawdy and casually misogynist, has sixteen verses, the first written out +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 8 of 28 with music, and each describing a grand lady of the court, who is named in the margin and given a pretend saint’s name in the text. (Begins: “Sainte Facile à tout moment disoit”). There are songs about John Law (1671-1729), the Scottish economist who was a minister under Louis XV; the annotator notes how he was apparently hanged in effigy in London after he was condemned for murder. One of these (373-380) also has references to Rousseau and Voltaire. The king’s wife Madame de Maintenon is referred to (348) as an “abominable Creole” (she was apparently believed - as the sidenote tells us - to be born in America). A song at 525-531 has a reference to Mississipi, and one at 381-388 to the Goa Inquisition. There are songs about Jansenism, and (557-559, 565-567, 579-582) on the recent Cadière affair (1730-31), the scandalous case - which received international attention, and inspired a play and a novel - of a Jesuit confessor who was accused of sexually abusing a young female penitent, who he in retaliation accused of witchcraft. The song “Aimable et tendre jeunesse” can be found - without commentary or annotations - in Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux Maurepas, Recueil dit de Maurepas (6 vols., Leiden, 1865), V, 162-165. On the Cadière affair, see recently Mita Choudhury, The wanton Jesuit and the wayward saint (University Park PA, 2015). [ref: 3649 ] $4500 PHILOSOPHY OF ALGEBRA 7. Chiminello, Vincenzo: Riflessioni su la verità di alcuni paradossi analitici del Sig. Abate Chiminello, astronomo assistente ed accademico di Padova, socio delle Accademie delle Scienze Imperiale di Siena, e Teodoro- Palatina di Manheim. 1784. First edition. Octavo (16.7 cms. x 11.8 cms.), pp. [2] 72. Cancel title-page. Text and algebra. Woodcut decoration to title-page. Light browning, light staining to first two leaves (found also pn front cover), bound in contemporary blue paper wrappers. Early label to front cover, “742”, manuscript code to inside back cover of a 5 above a 4. Contemporary manuscript correction, p. 26. First edition of this curious and rare philosophical and mathematical pamphlet, on algebra and its relation to truth and meaning. “Algebra [...] in its principles hold nothing with certainty except absolute ideas, but enriched with method, and specially applied to synthesis and to physics, has acquired relative ideas, and its rules now concern one or the other” (preface). Vincenzo Chiminello (1741-1815) was the assistant astronomer at the astronomical observatory of Padua, which was run by his uncle, Giuseppe Toaldo (1719-1797). +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 9 of 28 OCLC shows one copy at Basel University Library (604243200), and another record without given location (but with cataloguing in German). SBN (IT\ICCU\RMSE\005174) lists only a second edition (Venice, 1788). No entry for this author in Riccardi. Stefano Ramazzotti, ‘Chiminello, Vincenzo’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani 24 (1980). [ref: 3495 ] $650 STATUTES OF A WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION 8. [Compagnia delle dimesse. Vicenza] [Pagani, Antonio, C.R.S.P.] Gli ordini della divota Compagnia delle Dimesse; che vivono sotto il nome, et la protettione della purissima madre di Dio Maria Vergine. Con licentia de superiori, & privilegio. In Venetia, appresso Domenico Nicolini 1587. First edition. Quarto (22.2 cms. x 17 cms.), pp. [12] 109 [3]. Roman and italic letter. Woodcut vignette to title-page of St. Catherine of Alexandria before the Virgin and Child with motto ‘Reddet coronam Dominus’, small woodcut of Virgin and Child to p. [9], p. [12] with woodcut of Virgin with Child adored by angels surrounded by 16 small woodcuts, four being of the Evangelists and the other 12 being scenes from Mary’s life. Another woodcut of Virgin and Child (the Virgin crowned by angels) to p. 29, with same motto again. Pp. [2] and [3] at end with woodcuts of seals respectively of Michele Prioli, bishop of Vicenza (d. 1603), and of Agostino Valier (1531-1606), cardinal and bishop of Verona. Woodcut inhabited and decorated initials, the former showing Jonathan, King David, the Empress Helena, and St. Luke. Printed marginal gloss. Light browning, some staining, last two leaves with a bit of worming (affecting second woodcut seal and the foot of the final woodcut of Virgin and Child). Bound in 18th-cent. vellum boards, title to spine, edges red. Trace of paper (perhaps a tipped-in bookseller’s note removed?), front pastedown. Manuscript initials to title-page, “G.P.” Manuscript letter extensions. Rare first edition, illustrated, of these statutes for the company of the Dimesse of Vicenza, a women’s active congregation devoted to the Virgin Mary. The present statutes were the most radical of those for the new Italian women’s active congregations which appeared after the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent (1545-1563). They take a very supportive approach to women’s spirituality and to their spiritual autonomy. +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 10 of 28 The members are encouraged both to read for themselves works by male spiritual writers, and to read Saint Catherine of Siena, the monastic leader Antonia Paola Negri (1508-1555), who was sent to prison, and works of other women religious. The statutes circumscribe the power of the common confessor (an external and male officer). The congregation was founded in 1579 by Deianira and Agnola Valmarana, and Isabetta Franceschini, who all receive a dedication in this book. They were not nuns: they lived in common houses, but did not have rules of enclosure and did not take nuns’ solemn vows. Like other active congregations of the time, they led a life of prayer, penance, and good works, consisting mainly of charity towards women in need, including giving them shelter, and visiting them in hospital. The congregants had educational duties, giving lessons in catechism to girls. With this work that they did for other women, they were seen by the authorities as allies, helping in the movement of Catholic spiritual reform. This official sanction is seen in the dedication the congregants write, to their bishop, Michele Priuli (1579-1603) ([3]-[4]). Alongside its considerable textual interest, our book has visual interest also. In these statutes for a congregation dedicated to the Virgin Mary, there are no less than sixteen images of her, including a title-page vignette and two pictorial tail-pieces. They are all small and suited for use in other contexts, and the book shows how much equipment for Marian devotional publishing the printers had at their disposal. And besides using these woodblocks, the printers found another way to make the book attractive without much extra cost - it appears they left gaps in the text where printed letters could be extended in manuscript, in a decorative manner similar to civilité type. Whether this manuscript addition was done in the printers’ workshop or afterwards by the religious women, we do not know. Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio was active in Venice between around 1557 and 1605 (CNCE). He came from a family of printers and was also a bookseller. USTC 839431; CNCE 17188. OCLC shows copies outside Italy at Universities of Illinois and Kansas. Querciolo Mazzonis, ‘The Council of Trent and women’s active congregations in Italy’, in W. François and V. Soen, eds., The Council of Trent: reform and controversy in Europe and beyond (1545-1700) (3 vols., Göttingen 2017), II, 191-217. P. Renée Baernstein, ‘Negri, Antonia Paola’, in Hans J. Hillebrand, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (online edition, 2005) (accessed 17 July 2020). [ref: 3629 ] $2400 SONGS ON LOVE FOR YOUNG WOMEN 9. Dans, Johan van: Alle de soet-vloeyende poëtische wercken, van Johan van Dans, rechts-geleerde. [Scoperos satyra ofte Thyrsis minnewit, waer inne de hedendaeghsche vrijery klaer ende helder wordt afghebeeldt. Beschreven door Johan van Dans rechts-geleerde]. Tot Amsterdam, by Joannes Janssonius van Waesbergen, en de weduwe zal, Elizaeus Weyerstraten. 1668. Duodecimo (13.3 cms. x 8.2 cms.), pp. [8] 189 [15], [4] 126, [16] 73 [1]. Text with eleven plates, part-page (6.5 cms. x 4.6 cms.) Half-title and title- page, the last with etched and engraved pictorial vignette. Light browning and foxing, slight loosening at beginning, bound in contemporary vellum +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 11 of 28 over boards, title inked to spine (recent pastedowns and endpapers). First collected edition of the works of a popular songwriter on the subject of love, Johan van Dans. The book has dedications to the young women of the Netherlands. This is the first Dans publication also to be printed by a woman. The first part is illustrated with eleven plates depicting love, all here reprinted. These include straightforward depictions of love (a courting couple at first p.44), allusive ones (a man placing a woman’s foot on a foot warmer (first p.21)), crude ones (two dogs copulating (first p.99)), and sexually suggestive ones (a man and woman holding conversation while the man strokes a cat (first p. 88); a fisherwoman handling an eel (first p.150)). In the prefatory letter, Dans extols the virtues of the book’s small format for the women who might use it (you can hide it under your apron), and the tiny type used for the poems or songs (your aunts and grandmothers will have trouble reading, especially if you have hidden their glasses). He notes that there might occasionally be a “lewd-seeming bit of naughtiness” but this was justifiable because it was important for young people to know what love involved. The printer Sara Janssonius (1644-1669), widow of Elizée Weijerstraet (1633-1666), was head of a publishing and bookselling business in Amsterdam between 1667 and 1669. She was a member of a prominent publishing family. Her father was Jodocus Janssonius (1613-1655) and her grandfather was Jan Jansson (1588-1664). Her husband’s business seems more or less to have begun with his marriage (it started in 1662, they married in 1663). This may show a pattern for spouses of Janssonius women, as Sara’s sister Elizabeth also married a bookseller in 1663, and he started a business in that same year. Perhaps these businesses were in fact a type of dowry for the Janssonius women. Another sister, Susanna, married another member of the Janssonius family (her uncle’s son) in 1677; he started his business in 1675. Sara usually, while head of her firm, produced books in partnership with her uncle Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (1616-1681). This had been the practice when she was married. The business continued under her heirs until 1671. Contents of the book comprise ‘Scoperos satyra ofte Thyrsis minnewit’ (Scoperos satire or Thyrsis’ goal) vols. I (first: 1636) and II (published with vol. I in 1654), and ‘Darodilace ofte kus-hemel van Ledee’ (Darodilace or Ledee’s heaven of kisses) (1637). This first part, ‘Scoperos satyra’ has text that was not printed in the previous editions (an ‘Elegie’ in the last 11 pages of vol. I, and in vol. II a poem ‘De pleydoy tusschen Euphrosine ende Thyrceras’ (the pleading between Euphrosine and Thyrceras), 109-126). STCN 84419350X. OCLC shows copies outside European mainland in Chicago, British Library and Pretoria. Natascha Veldhorst, ‘Pharmacy for the body and soul: Dutch songbooks in the seventeenth century’. Early Music History 27 (2018), 217-285, see 273-274. On the foot warmer, see H.R. Nevitt, ‘Vermeer’s milkmaid in the discourse of love’, in W. Mellon, M. Zell, J. Woodall, eds., Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice (Leiden 2017), 324-369, see 330. For the Janssonius family, see ECARTICO: linking cultural industries in the early +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 12 of 28 modern Low Countries, at www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico (accessed 26 July 2020). Source cited in Martine van Elk, ‘Famed as far as one finds books: women in the Dutch and English book trades’, in V. Wayne, ed., Women’s labour and the history of the book in early modern England (London 2020), 113-142 (for our publisher, see 137 here). [ref: 3638 ] $3000 OWNED AND READ BY PROPHET EDMUND JONES 10. Dyke, Jeremiah: Two treatises: the one of Good conscicnce [sic]; shewing the nature, meanes, markes, benefits, and necessitie thereof. The other The mischiefe and misery of scandalls, both taken and given. Both published. by Ier: Dyke, minister of Gods Word at Epping in Essex. The Sixth Edition corrected. [Bound with:] The righteous mans tower· Or, The way to be safe in a case of danger. By Ier. Dike, minister of Epping in Essex [...] London, printed by A.M. for Robert Milbourne [printed by E.G. for I. Rothwell, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Sunne, in S. Pauls Church-yard 1635 [1639]. 2 publications in 1 volume, octavo (17.1 cms. x 11.5 cms.), pp. [12] 279 (mispaginations; correct total number 276), [1], [28], 242 (mispaginations; correct total number 244); [32] 115 (mispaginations), [1], [2] 112, [2], 86 [2]. First publication with general title followed by title-page to first part, title-page second part preceded by initial blank and with woodcut architectural border; cancel title-page to second publication, tipped to sig. A3, preceded by initial blank. Final blank to second publication. Woodcut decoration and initials, printed side-notes. Texts within woodcut borders. Light browning, some waterstaining, old and sizeable repair to margin of sig. L1 of part one of first work (text unaffected). In an early binding of brown calf, covers double-filletted in blind, spine double-filletted into compartments, with traces of gilt. Single fillet, gilt, to sides. All edges red. (Binding rubbed and worn, splitting to joints, loss and loosening to head and tail of spine). Front free endpaper appears pasted down. Bound with eight blank leaves between first and second part of first publication, another eight blanks (torn out) between first and second publication, and another four blank leaves at end. These last (and the integral final blank) have six pages of reader’s notes from 1701 (described below), and an inscription, “Edmond Jones’s 1754” (for which also see below). Traces of spine label to front cover, an early cross inside circle to first title-page. Volume owned and read by the Welsh writer and chronicler of the paranormal, and revivalist minister Edmund Jones (1702-1793), the two publications inside each contain different collections of works of an Essex clergyman, Jeremiah Dyke (1584-1639), who specialised in practical divinity (Yiannikkou). The volume had been bound for note taking, with extra blank leaves included after each of the two parts of the first work and at the very end. Years before Jones owned it, an anonymous reader added, at the end of the volume, a six-page reader’s diary, where we learn that this individual read the first part of the first publication, ‘Good conscience’, between August 24th and October 5th 1701, the second part, ‘The mischiefe and miserie of scandals both taken and given’, from October 12th to November 2nd of that year, the first part of the second publication, ‘The Righteous Man’s Tower’, from November +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 13 of 28 9th to November 16th, the next part, ‘The Righteous Man’s Honour’, From November 23rd to November 30th, and the final part, ‘The Righteous Man’s Conversation’, from November 30th to December 7th 1701. This first reader also corrected some mispaginations and wrote in a word (”heaven”) which had been damaged by a spark (final p. 20). Edmund Jones, the volume’s later and famous owner, is best known for writings on ghosts, fairies, evil spirits and witches, and in the history of Welsh Noncomformity, for his prominent role in the eighteenth-century religious revival (Coward). He also wrote, (published and unpublished), diaries, topographies, sermons, and a ‘spiritual botanology’, a dialogue between two fictional characters containing commentary on commonplace plants. The greater part of his interventions in the present volume consists of asterisks in the margins. These are found throughout, sometimes with remarks “nb”, or simply “n”. There are seven further marginalia, consisting of remarks (rather than gloss) on the text. At p. 224 of Dyke’s ‘Good conscience’, in a passage about King Darius’s troubled conscience after he had put Daniel in the lion’s den, Jones notes “spoiled a king’s mirth”. Against a passage about Jehosophat in ‘The Righteous Man’s Tower’, Jones notes “run to his tower”. At p. 30 of the same, in a passage about calamities (with no mention of Noah) he writes “ask a Tower for Noah”, and at p. 67 in this work (sig. E2 recto), in a passage about doves flying to the rock of God’s protection, “no wings no flying”. At the end of the work, he comments, “Lastly praise God for this tower, & for its excellencies and properties”. At p. 87 of Dyke’s ‘The Righteous Man’s Honour’, in a passage about God being dishonoured by hypocritical Christians, he writes “Oh!” At p. 28 of ‘The Righteous Man’s Conversation’, against a description of Christians ascending from the wilderness like smoke, he writes “Not before the fire burns it, then it ascends & not before so &c”. There is perhaps a pungent tone to his remarks, that has been noted in his annotations to other volumes (Jenkins). Jones is known to have been a compulsive reader, and to have spent what money he had on sermons of seventeenth-century puritans (id.) Some eighty books from his library are at the Ebenezer chapel of Pontnewenydd near Pontypool, which he founded in 1740 (Watts). The present book is not in that catalogue. Other locations include the British Library, who have had digitised an annotated book of his. Regarding the printed content, the second publication here has three constituent parts, all in first edition. This was the second of two issues of the collection, each with a minor variation to the title-page. Both issues are rare. Dyke dedicates it to his patron, Lady Katherine Wentworth, probably the widow, original surname Finch, of Gosfield Hall in Essex. The first publication is in an uncommon edition in itself (with for example only one physical copy located in the US). Its two constituent parts are respectively reissues of a sixth edition (’Good conscience’ was the author’s most successful work), and a 1632 second edition, the two given a general title- +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 14 of 28 page. STC (2nd ed.) 7422, ESTC S126210; STC (2nd ed.) 7428, ESTC S100168. On Dyke, see Jason Yiannikkou, ‘Dyke, Jeremiah’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published 23 September 2004. On his patron Lady Katherine Wentworth, see entry on Dyke by Patrick Collinson in Francis J. Bremer and Tom Webster, eds., Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America (2 vols., Santa Barbara 2006), I, 81-82; also genealogical and related websites. On Jones, see Adam N. Coward, ‘Spiritual journeys: “purposeful travel” and the writings of the Reverend Edmund Jones (1702-1793)’, in Studies in Travel Writing, 22/3 (2018), 254-173. See also Geraint H. Jenkins, ‘Jones, Edmund’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (23 September 2004). For Jones’s Pontnewenydd library catalogue, see Trevor Watt, ‘The Edmund Jones Library’, The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, 11 (3-4) (1975/6), 233-243. One book annotated by Jones is British Library shelfmark 695.f.24, copy viewable via Eighteenth Century Collections Online (see their record of Mottershead, Jesus Christ a divine teacher, 1745). This copy found via catalogue of R.C. Alston, Books with manuscript (London, 1994), see owner ‘Jones, E.’ For brief discussion of these last annotations, see Edmund Jones (ed. John Harvey), The appearance of evil: apparitions of spirits in Wales (Cardiff, 2003), 136 n.17. More Jones annotations can be seen for example at blog by Hywel Lloyd, 30/10/2017, ‘Edmund Jones, “The Old Prophet”’, at blog.library.wales/ edmund-jones-the-old-prophet/ (accessed 13 July 2020). [ref: 3622 ] $2400 COPY OF DIPLOMAT LUIS DE TORRES (1533-1584)? 11. Ephrem of Edessa, St. [Zini, Pietro Francesco]: Divina quaedam S. Ephraem opera mille ducentis iam annis e Syra in Graecam linguam, nunc autem e Graeca in Latinam versa. Petro Francisco Zino Veronensi interprete. Venetiis, apud Fran. Rampazetum 1561. First edition. Octavo (15.2 cms. x 10.8 cms.), fols. 91 [1]. Woodcut vignette to title-page, woodcut headpiece and initials. Worming to top margin at beginning, browning and some waterstaining, bound in contemporary limp vellum, Spanish or possibly southern Italian-style lettering to spine, ties removed (binding loosening from text block). Inscription to title-page of Don Lud.s de Torres, his note ‘Rand.[??] donum’. Probably his underlining throughout text, also crossing through of woodcut capitals, and writing of four words to margins, two in Greek (see below), two in Latin (’Basilius’). Early stamp to title-page (faded), later inscription of E. Axar, inscriptions to pastedowns from Mexico, 1880 and 1881. Rare Latin edition of works of the Syrian saint Ephrem of Edessa (306-373), translated from a manuscript in Greek. The editor includes two lives of the saint, by Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-c. 395) and (in a translation by Johann Lang), one of Nikephoros Kallistos (1256-1335). Pietro Francesco Zini (c.1520-1573) was a cleric and a leading Latin translator of Greek Christian writers. In a dedication, to the bishop of Verona Girolamo Trevisani, he notes that if the present book is well-received, he will translate another Greek manuscript, with works by Ephrem and other authors, which was written out by Antonio Giberti - perhaps the agent in Rome of Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558). Our copy was owned and read by one don Luis de Torres. This may be Luis de Torres (1533-1584), a Vatican official and diplomat who became Archbishop of Monreale in Sicily from 1573. This owner underlined the text +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 15 of 28 thoroughly, and knew (some) Greek, writing twice in the margins the word in the language for ‘word’. Torres was important for his role in building the Holy League, the military alliance against the Ottoman Empire which won the battle of Lepanto in 1571. In 1570 he was sent by the pope on successful missions to Philip II of Spain, and subsequently to king Sebastian of Portugal, to persuade them to join the group. After his embassy Philip commended don Luis (as he referred to him, and as our owner is called here) to the pope, and he was made archbishop not long after. His uncle, of the same name (1494-1553), was archbishop of Salerno, and had summoned Torres to work in Rome from the family hometown of Malaga in 1550. His own nephew, also called Luis (1552-1609) was archbishop of Monreale from 1588 and a cardinal from 1606. This last Luis left a book collection to the cathedral there. We have seen photographs of inscriptions and do not believe that this was the cardinal-nephew’s book. Our publication and copy offers insight into Italian and Spanish interest in early eastern Christianity, and the reading practices of a cleric-politician in Rome in the later sixteenth century. CNCE 18130. USTC 828159. OCLC shows no copies outside European mainland. On Antonio Giberti, see Thomas F. Mayer, ‘A reluctant author: Cardinal Pole and his manuscripts’, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 89/4 (1999), viii, 115, see 20 and n.38. On Luis de Torres (1533-1584) see Manuel Espadas Burgos, Buscando a España en Roma (Barcelona, 2006), 155; also Pietro Messina, ‘De Torres, Ludovico’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani 39 (1991). The two signatures of Torres’ nephew that we have seen are on the title-pages to a copy of Bernardo Telesio, Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli (Venice, 1590) (copy ex-Boston Public Library, returned to Monreale; see archive.org/details/variidenatvralib00tele/page/n5/mode/2up) and to Yale Beinecke copy of Il lacrimoso lamento (Perugia, 1594) (call number 2004 1300). [ref: 3628 ] $1750 RARE HISTORY OF LEARNED WESTERN WOMEN 12. [Istoria delle donne] Istoria delle donne di merito di diversi secoli, scritta da mano maestra. Londra [i.e. Italy] 1786. First edition. Octavo (20 cms. x 13.2 cms.), pp. [2] [III-]IV, 185 [1]. Special decorative type to title-page. Light age-yellowing, some contents loosening, bound in contemporary cartonnage, title inked to spine (a tear to spine, showing the gatherings underneath). Bookplate, “Ex libris John Lewis FSIA” (John Lewis (1912-1996), printer, illustrator and +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 16 of 28 collector). Contemporary inscription to p. 3:”Manoanoe” (possibly some juvenile doggerel echoing the “mano” on the title-page). An interesting history of women's achievements in the west, written it appears by a woman (“we are wives and mothers”, the author for example states at p. 7). It may well be a translation of an unidentified French work, with new and extensive Italian footnotes. The writer begins by explaining why she has chosen to study European societies and displays an absolute pro-western bias. She reports global cruelty against women: mothers drowning newborn daughters as an act of mercy in the Orinoco region in south America, and despotism and the enclosure of women in the countries of Asia and the Middle East (3). She draws a distinction with places - i.e. the west - where the climate gives less heat to the desires, and so women are not deprived of liberty, although there is still legal subjugation (4). In these parts, the author explores the merits that women can achieve, where the contingencies of law, circumstance and government, the relationship between customs and politics, and the spirit of the age and the nation allows (9). The main text starts with the history of women in ancient Greece and Rome, and ends in the court of Louis XIV (d.1715), and then with the thoughts (180) of the philosopher Montesquieu (d.1755). The main text contains some discussion of international European figures - e.g. Christina of Sweden (1629-1686), Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and male writers on women including Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) - but has an emphasis on France. The c.643 lines of footnotes however include for example a 24-line section on women academics in Bologna, with references including (72) to a woman physics professor, i.e. Laura Bassi (1711-1778). This is part of a note devoted to women of letters that continues with 20 lines on Venice, where there is discussion of the poet Modesta di Pozzo di Zorzi (1555-1592) and the scholar Cassandra Fedele (c.1465-1558). The note also discusses a young female member of the Trivulzi[o?] family in Milan who gave Latin speeches, in Verona the humanist Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466), in Florence a learned nun of the Strozzi family, in Naples the poet Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), and in Rome the poet Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547). The note follows with discussions of Spain (and the learned women Isabella de Rosares, Isabella (Losa) de Cordova (1491-1564), Caterina Ribera, and Luisa Sigea (1522-1560)), and England and Scotland (and the learned women Jane Seymour (c. 1508-1537), and her sisters, also Lady Jane Grey (c.1537-1554), Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), and Margaret Roper (1505-1544), the writer who was also daughter of Sir Thomas More). Other footnotes contain information on Italian and French works written by men in praise of women. Our copy has a single leaf after the title-page, not found in the other copies of our book described (ESTC, SBN). Its contents comprise a two-page preface. The writer remarks here, “perhaps it will be seen [...] that women are susceptible to all the qualities that religion, politics or government would like to give them”. That is, climate permitting. ESTC T506029 (copies at British Library and Bibliotheca Hertziana) - OCLC adding no further copies. SBN: IT/ICCU/LIAE/026736 (Biblioteca Labronica, Livorno - variant?) and (probably) IT\ICCU\LO1\1146688 (1876 - i.e. 1786?) (Biblioteca Civica, Varese). Not in Melzi. [ref: 3644 ] $1750 +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 17 of 28 SAMMELBAND OF CLASSICAL PAMPHLETS 13. Libanios, of Antioch [Morel, Fédéric II]: [I] [Greek letters] Libaniou sophistou Ethopoiiai tines. Libanii Sophistae Ethopeiae seu morales fictaéque orationés [...] [II] [Greek letters] Libaniou sophistou Parasitos epi deipnon kaetheis. Libanii sophistae Parasitus ob coenam occisam se ipsum deferens [...] [III] [Greek letters] Libaniou sophistou Enkomion georgias. Libanii rhetoris Laudatio agriculturae [...] [IV] [Greek letters] Libaniou rhetoros Ekphrasis kalandon. Libanii rhetoris et sophistae Expositio kalend. [...] [V] [Greek letters] Meletē, peri dyskolou gēmantos lalon gynaika eauton prosangellontos. Declamatio lepidissima, de moroso qui cum uxorem loquacem duxisset, seipsum accusat [...] Parisiis [Lutetiae], apud Fed. Morellum architypographum regium, via Iacobaea ad insigne fontis. 1603 [1603] [1602] [1601] [1597]. 5 works in 1 vol., octavos signed in 4’s (volume 17.8 cms. x 11.2 cms. in binding). In order of listing: pp. [2] 18 (last leaf here misbound after first); [4] 16; 16, 8; 15 [1]; 24, 22. Greek, roman, and italic letter, side notes in small type, woodcut headpieces and initials. Three different decorations to title-pages (a generic decoration, a fountain, a serpent entwined in a tree). Light browning, very nice copies in contemporary stiffened vellum. Inscription to front free endpaper recto, “Hugo de Salins Belnensis doctor medicus” (see below). Attractive fresh collection of classical pamphlets from the turn of the seventeenth century, these are editions (all but one, first editions) by the scholar-printer Fédéric II Morel (1552-1630), of five interesting single works ascribed to the Hellenic, pagan rhetorician Libanios of Antioch (314-392/3). Subject-matters include agriculture, festivals, and women’s roles at home and city life. Two of the texts, ([I]) a set of fictional speeches (‘ethopoeiae’), by a painter who attempted to depict Apollo, and by two heroes from Homer’s ‘Iliad’; and ([III]) the praise of agriculture; are announced on the title-page to be the first publication of the original Greek (’editiones principes’). The volume also has: [II] a satirical plea for suicide, by a parasitic worm who lives in the stomach of man who has taken up ascetic philosophy (and is therefore not eating properly); and [IV] a speech on the contemporary Kalends festival (equivalent to modern New Year’s Eve celebrations). The fifth item in the volume, Libanios’ Declamation 26, makes use of the misogynistic trope of a wife who talks too much, in order to satirise civic life and professional sophists (”talking heads”). A husband pleads before judges for legal suicide to protect himself from his wife, who in a reversal of gendered interests, enquires after city affairs while he wishes to live a quiet life in the home. His wife delivers a speech praising a rooster (the sort of activity you can expect from a mouth for professional hire, such as he is satirising) and the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 18 of 28 plaintiff pleads for suicide instead of divorce in case she comes to present her case in the courtroom. Morel reused his work for these pamphlets in his collected edition of the author of 1606. All the pamphlets except one comprise Latin translations followed by Greek text, with printed side notes to the the Latin. Item [III], in praise of agriculture, also has three pages of commentary by Morel. Item [II], on the parasitic worm, is a reissue of a Latin translation, without Greek. Morel was professor of Latin at the Collège de France and the King’s Greek printer. His dedicatees are François de la Guesle, Archbishop of Tours; Jacques de la Guesle, a senior lawyer; Renaud de Beaune, Archbishop of Sens; and the statesman, historian and book collector Jacques-Auguste de Thou. The volume probably belonged to a doctor and literary author of Beaune called Hugues de Salins (d.1710), [I] Not in USTC. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at Oxford and Alberta. [II] USTC 6009019. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at Oxford and Alberta. [III] USTC 6015272. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at Harvard, Oxford and Alberta. [IV] USTC 6000001. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at NYPL, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford and British Library. [V] Adams L 632, USTC 146584. OCLC and USTC show copies outside mainland Europe in British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, National Art Library; University of Chicago, Harvard, Stanford, Muncie, Huntington Library; University of Alberta. On the text Jeremy J. Swist, ‘Sophistry and sorcery in Libanius’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 57 (2017), 431-453, see 438-439. For previous owner of volume see Philipert Papillon, Bibliothèque des auteurs de Bourgogne (2 vols., Dijon, 1742), II, 231-232. [ref: 3627 ] $1750 NUN’S PRINTED BOOK LABEL 14. [Maison Royale de Saint-Louis] [Augustinian convent of Saint-Cyr]: Fraguemens. [Saint-Cyr] [18th century]. Manuscript, 14.3 cms. x 8.2 cms. in binding, writing, in two hands, to 335 pages. Pagination: [6] (blank), 117, 117[bis]-125, 125[bis]-217, 217[bis]-220, 220[bis]-278, [53], + [41] (blank). Pages ruled in red ink. Light browning, a very good manuscript, bound in mottled calf, spine and sides gilt, red morocco gilt label, red silk ribbon, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges red (rubbed, slight wear to corners, slight loss to tail and wormhole to top of front joint, a good binding). Letterpress label to front pastedown, “Ma Sr. de Montorcier”, and written on label below this, in manuscript, “Sr. dEscaquelonde”. Devotional manuscript from the Augustinian convent of Saint-Cyr near Paris, which was responsible for the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, a school for orphaned or impoverished daughters of French nobility that had been founded by Louis XIV’s wife Madame de Maintenon. The book starts with a meditative and spiritual work called ‘Fragments’ (1-276), the title possibly recognising the process of commonplacing and extracting that produced it. Use of Google Books reveals Antoine Godeau’s Élévations à Jesus +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 19 of 28 Christ to be a source. Next, in a second hand, are shorter pieces, entitled ‘God loves me despite my misery’, ‘God consoles me my misery’, ‘God attends to me after my misery’, ‘God is my principle’, ‘God is my centre’, ‘God is my end’, and again, ‘Fragments’. The first owner of the book, “Ma soeur de Montorcier”, has a letterpress-printed booklabel. She is either Françoise Virgile de Montorcier, who made her profession at the convent on 13 July 1713 and died, aged thirty, on 10 May 1719, or (more likely) Cathérine Josèphe Rose de Virgile Montorcier (1706-1779) who was a pupil at the school and who stayed to take solemn vows at the convent on 25 January 1728. Cathérine Josèphe would have known the next owner, Marie Angelique de Croutelle d’Escaquelonde (1740-1815), another ex-pupil of the school, who made profession as a nun on 2 December 1761 and left with the closing of the institution in 1793. She appears to have been her cousin (d’Escaquelonde’s mother had surname de Virgile Montorcier). On 15 January 1756, d’Escaquelonde starred as Haman in a production of Racine’s Esther that was performed at Saint-Cyr before the Dauphin, the Dauphine, and the royal princesses. That play had originally been written for the school - and had in fact in its first showing caused such political difficulties for Madame de Maintenon that it contributed to the institution - initially lay-run - being given to the Augustinians. Théophile Lavallée, Histoire de la maison royale de Saint-Cyr (1686-1793) (Paris, 1856), 342, 343, 345, 359. Fleury Vindry, Les demoiselles de Saint-Cyr (1686-1793) (Paris, 1908), 146, 421. Jean Racine, Oeuvres (8 vols., Paris, 1885-1888), see III, 429-430 for the 1756 production of Esther. See also Wikipedia article ‘Maison royale de Saint-Louis’ (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_royale_de_Saint-Louis), viewed 5 October 2020. [ref: 3634 ] $1000 RARE WORK OF QUR'AN SCHOLAR AND PAPAL INSIDER 15. Marracci, Ludovico: L'Ebreo preso per le buone overo discorsi familiari, et amichevoli fatti con i rabbini di Roma intorno al Messia. Opera postuma del P. Lodovico Marracci Chier. Reg. della Religione della Madre di Dio, giá Confessore della S.M. d’Innocenzio XI. In Roma, per gli Eredi del Corbelletti 1701. First edition. Quarto (21.3 cms. x 15.7 cms.), pp. [16] 298 [2]. Woodcut decoration and initials. Light foxing and browning, bound in contemporary vellum over boards, title inked to spine. Inscription to final pastedown, recording purchase, Rome 16 October 1710, by Luigi P[...][?] (name crossed out). Another early name crossed out on title-page. Rare work of the Qur’an translator, and professor at La Sapienza university in Rome, Ludovico Marracci (1612-1700). The book takes up a very traditional and often antisemitic Christian polemical standpoint. It is written against the Jewish religion, specifically Jewish +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 20 of 28 understandings of the Messiah. This is nevertheless an interesting example of this literature. It is signposted as written in a “friendly” tone, and started a new trend in this regard (seen later in the work of Gian Bernardo De Rossi, 1773). The author was not an ex-rabbi, as authors of anti-Jewish theological diatribes frequently were. He was a senior figure in the Roman curia, confessor to Innocent XI and an adviser to, amongst others, the Index of Prohibited Books, the Inquisition and the Propaganda Fide. He was also a person of erudition. Professor of Arabic at La Sapienza from 1656, he produced the first European scholarly translation of the Qur’an. Our title includes (256-282) a history of messianism up to recent times. The prefatory letter to the reader contains a biography of the recently-deceased author. SBN: IT\ICCU\CFIE\028153. OCLC shows physical copies outside European mainland at Jewish Theological Seminary, Harvard, Yad Ishak ben Zvi Library and National Library of Israel. Luca Andreoni, ‘Polemica antiebraica e conversioni in età moderna. Note su Ludovico Marracci e ‘L’Ebreo preso per le buone’ (1701)’ in Gian Luca D’Errico, ed., Il Corano e il Pontefice. Ludovico Marracci tra cultura islamica e Curia papale (Rome 2015), 67-80. Alexander Bevilacqua, ‘The Qur’an translations of Marracci and Sale’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 76 (2013), 93-130. [ref: 3646 ] $1600 NOTARIAL ARTEFACT 16. [Notarial manuscript] Notarial document for emphyteusis of lands belonging to the Monastery of Santa Marta, Genoa. Manuscript on vellum. Genoa, 1530-1536. Manuscript, 20 x 14.3cm. 24 unnumbered leaves. On vellum, secretary hand in black-brown ink, c.26 lines per full page. Light age yellowing, heavier to three leaves of last gathering, fore-edge a little dusty, a few small scattered worm holes to first gathering. A well-preserved, clean copy in contemporary quarter calf over wooden boards, wormed, substantial loss to leather, spine fully exposed, one cord broken, a fastening device removed. ‘A’ inked to upper board in a contemporary hand, contemporary manuscript annotations concerning rent payments to last verso dated 1536. An engaging archival artefact in original binding, shedding light on the ecclesiastical economy of early 16th-century Genoa and the activities of prominent mercantile families. These legal documents for property transactions were probably preserved as official copies in the the monastery of Santa Marta in Genoa, whose lands they concern. Besides having an inked casemark to upper board - suggesting archival storage - they are written on vellum, traditionally the required medium for official copies of legal documents. They were styled by the renowned notary Bernardo Usodimare-Granello (fl. 1520s-50s), who practised at Genoa and Bastia, and recorded documents on a variety of subjects spanning maritime, ecclesiastical and civil law. As ‘scriba’ of the Genoese archepiscopal court, he also signed inquisitorial documents concerning witch trials and ‘monachini’ (those who committed fornication with nuns by entering their monasteries surreptitiously). The documents in our collection are agreements styled by this notary on behalf of Johannes Baptista Cattaneus from Genoa. A member of the local patriciate, Cattaneus was ‘protonotarius apostolicus’ and ‘commendatarius perpetuus’ of this Genoese monastery of Santa Marta, which had hosted the Order of the Humiliati until 1515. As ‘commendatarius’ (or ecclesiastical administrator), Cattaneo approves the contract of emphyteusis for the use of a house and land on the estate +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 21 of 28 of villa Carbonara, just outside the city walls. Emphyteusis was the perpetual right to the use and enjoyment of a property on condition that suitable care was provided as well as the payment of the required tax and rent. This right was extended to the heirs of the recipient, and there are therefore long sections here on marriage and inheritance, specifying different outcomes if the heir is male or female, etc. This property had been given in emphyteusis to the late Johannes Baptista Bigna, silk maker, who we know had died of the plague in 1528. The land was surrounded by other monastic properties granted to the brothers de Bargalio, Jeronimus de Marinis de Montano and the Ususmaris de Rovereto. These last were a major Genoese family of silk producers, especially the brothers Vincenzo, who operated in Genoa, and Francesco, in Lyon. This document transferred the emphyteusis from the Bigna to Paulus de Fruntis, cheesemaker, and his relatives Johannes and Thoma. The contemporary annotations on the last verso of this copy record revenues from the land. The document also mentions Andreas de Grimaldis and Matheus de Mortario, canons of the Cathedral church of Genoa. [No author], 'Capo I. Il processo delle streghe di Triora', Rivista di discipline carcerarie 22 (1897) 189-218, see 199; G. Portigliotti, Rinascimento: Porpore, pugnali, etère (Milan 1929), 256, 259; Andrea Lercari, ‘Famiglia Bigna’ (29 October 2010), in Repertorio di fonti sul patriziato genovese, at http://www.sa-liguria.beniculturali.it/en/area-patrimonio-archivistico/ progetti-area-archivistica/progetti-in-corso-area-archivistica/120-repertorio- di-fonti-sul-patriziato-genovese-area-archivistica (accessed 29 September). See also La storia dei genovesi: atti del Convegno di studi sui ceti dirigenti nelle istituzioni della Repubblica di Genova : Genova, 6-7-8 novembre 1980 (series: 8 vols., Genoa, 1981-1988), I 73 (seen only in snippet view via Google Books - proper citation presently not possible). With many thanks to Dr. Sara Trevisan for her cataloguing. [ref: 3643 ] $2400 WOMEN AND THE CLASSICS IN 17TH-CENT. ENGLAND 17. Pliny the younger [Casaubon, Isaac]: C. Plinii Cæc. Sec. Epistolarum libri IX. Ejusdem et Trajani imp. Epistolæ amœbææ. Ejusdem Pl. et Pacati, Mamertini, Nazarii, Panegyrici. Item, Claudiani Panegyrici. Præter multos locos in hac posteriori editione emendatos, adjunctæ sunt Isaaci Casauboni notæ in epistolas. [Geneva] excud. Henr. Steph. 1591. Sextodecimo (12.7 cms. x 8.5 cms.), pp. 43, [21], 413 [1], [2], 330 [2] 333-’414’ (i.e. 448), [32]. With two final blanks. A blank leaf also after p.413, and after (second) p. 330. Woodcut ‘Oliva’ device to title-page. Printed side notes. Light browning, slight staining, some side notes cut close and occasionally shaved, and a few minor holes and tears (including to title- page), bound in contemporary English calf, spine over three raised bands, covers filletted in blind with central oval arabesque stamped in blind, binder’s waste from possibly a post- incunable edition of Aristotle, ‘De Anima’, spine with red morocco gilt label and gilt filletting, these last two both applied possibly c.1800. All edges red, ties removed (slight +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 22 of 28 rubbing and wear, slight loss to head and at bottom of top joint, front pastedown almost loose). An early code (2 and 6) written above and below imprint information, title-page with inscriptions “George Cotton” and “A: C:”, “A.C” found to recto of final endpaper. A later shelf code “C. 37” to title-page. Two small annotations in text (at 2nd p. 7, and last p. 311), one annotation to front pastedown, two notes to final pastedown (one being of just over three lines), and one note of five lines (in Latin and English) to final leaf verso. Titling to fore edge, possibly in hand of George Cotton. The better, second Estienne edition of the letters of Pliny the younger (first: 1581). It was preferred to Estienne’s first by the classics bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), on account of the textual readings to margins, and the added notes of “Catauchus” - we think a typesetter’s error for Casaubon, the great scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), whose notes are printed for the first time in this edition. Our slightly annotated copy illustrates ownership and reading of continental classics books in Elizabethan and early Stuart England, and may have belonged to a young woman. It is inscribed by George Cotton and ‘A.C.’. We note that George Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Shropshire (1561-c. 1647) had a daughter Anne (b.1598). There were later A.C.s of Combermere Abbey, all women: Anne (1661-c.1710), Arabella (b. c. 1662), and Anne (b.1693). Cotton’s daughter is the most probable owner amongst these: he may have given the book directly to her, and she seems to have copied George’s upstroke on the C and use of colon - perhaps the act of a daughter. The annotations are also likely to be of this time and show classical study taking place in the house. Anne is likely to have owned the book as a girl: another ‘A.C.’ inscribed at end seems clearly juvenile. The contents of Combermere were sold in 1919, at an auction which included 3,000 books. The family of Cotton of Combermere was descended from Sir George Cotton (1505-1545) who had been a privy councillor to Henry VIII. He obtained the property with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The edition’s commentator Isaac Casaubon, who was a Huguenot, lived in the last four years of his life in England, where he was greatly celebrated. He was naturalised English in 1611. Adams P 1546. GLN 3491. USTC 451287. T.F. Dibdin, An introduction to the Greek and Latin classics, 4th edition (2 vols., London 1827), II, 330. On the Cottons of Combermere Abbey, see pages at www.combermere-restoration.co.uk (accessed 22 September 2020). For Casaubon, see John Considine, ‘Casaubon, Isaac’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (version published 17 December 2015). There is another George Cotton of this time, an MP who died in 1617. See http:// www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/ 1604-1629/member/cotton-george-1616 (accessed 22 September 2020). I doubt he was our book’s owner because he had no family heirs in his will with name beginning A. For his will see National Archives, PROB-11-127-351 (cited at link above and available for download at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk). [ref: 3650 ] $1000 +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 23 of 28 FREEING THE MIND 18. Rudio, Eustachio: [...] Liber de anima. In quo probatur Galenum de vegetalis, & sentientis animae substantia reliquis omnibus rectiùs, sensisse, veriora, tum vitae, tum mortis principia, & causae traduntur, nec non rationalis animae immortalitas efficacissimis rationibus probatur. Perillustri, & excellentissimo viro Octauio Amaltheo compatri suo dicatus. Patavii, apud Petrum Bertellum [ex typographia Laurentii Pasquati] 1611. First edition. Quarto, pp. [4] 240 [2] 241-2 (colophon leaf has been bound before last leaf of text). Woodcut printer’s vignette to title-page, woodcut decoration to p. 242. Light browning and foxing, slight staining, bound in recent marbled paper over boards, earlier marbled edges. First edition of this important work of Galenic natural philosophy, that helped bring the emergence of modern psychology and philosophy of mind. It was part of “a crucial stage in the evolution that led from Aristotelian ontology to a naturalistic consideration of the human being [...] [T]he fundamental attitudes of modern philosophy emerge: the demise of the inquiry into essences and the replacement of Aristotelian ontology with the analysis of the human mind and its operations” (Bigotti). Rudio (1548-1611), a professor at Padua, wishes to demonstrate that Galen’s views on life and the body are the best available. He sees the working of the senses as a purely physiological process. His naturalising of sensation is taken to the point of encompassing “phenomena such as imagination and thought, which are usually attributed to the conscious activity of the subject” (id.) As a professor at Padua, Rudio is believed to have taught cardiology to William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of blood. Krivatsy 10011. SBN: IT\ICCU\BVEE\030645. USTC 4021849. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at University of California San Francisco, National Library of Medicine, Chicago and Cambridge. Fabrizio Bigotti, ‘Galen’s legacy and the transformation of natural philosophy in the late Renaissance: from ‘mens’ to ‘ingenium’’, in Romana Bassi, ed., Rinascimento veneto e Rinascimento europeo (Pisa, 2019), 91-103, see esp. 99-101, 103. Massimo Rinaldi, ‘RUDIO, Eustachio’, Dizionario biografico degli italiani 89 (2017). [ref: 3632 ] $1600 TRAVEL LETTERS ON ALCHEMY, LIBRARIES AND MORE 19. Tollius, Jacobus [Hennin, Heinrich Christian von]: Epistolae itinerariae ex auctoris schedis postumis recensitae, suppletae, digestae ; annotationibus, observationibus et figuris adornatae, cura et studio Henrici Christiani Henninii. Amstelaedami [Amsterdam], typis Francisci Halmae [...] veneunt in officina Joannis ab Oosterwyk [...] 1700. Quarto (24.2 cms. x 19 cms.), pp. [18] 260 [14] + 16 etched and engraved leaves of plates (4 folded). With frontispiece, title-page vignette, head-piece and initial (at beginning of preface and at p. 1), and in-page illustrations at pp. 130 and 244, all also etched and engraved. Title- page printed in red and black, woodcut decorations and initials, small woodcut diagram at p. 97, letterpress copies of ancient inscriptions. Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, roman, italic and fraktur letter. Light or medium browning, bound in contemporary vellum boards, title inked +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 24 of 28 to spine, red sprinkled edges. Front pastedown with three contemporary manuscript notes, recording references to libraries of manuscripts in Leipzig, Dresden and Buda. First edition of this illustrated work which describes a writer’s tour through Central Europe, Germany, Hungary and Italy, meeting learned people, seeing curiosities, recording wonders and examining libraries. The interests of Toll or Tollius (d.1696), who was an academic and trained physician, include chemistry and alchemy, and he writes on minerals and mineral waters, on chemical gold and medals produced from it, and on scientists. In Berlin, he visits with the chemist Johann Kunckel (1630-1703) (46-47). Toll’s book is composed of six discursive letters, all indexed together. The original recipients were the politician, colonial administrator and Fellow of the Royal Society Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717) (two letters); the scholar Johann Georg Graevius (1632-1703); the philosopher Gerard de Vries (1648-1705); the physician and scholar Theodoor Jansson (1657-1712); and the Prussian nobleman Dodo von Knyphausen (1641-1698). The book is edited by the insectologist Heinrich Christian von Hennin (c. 1655-1703), who includes notes and observations at the end of each letter. Illustrations include an engaging statue of the pagan god Crodo, a fold-out of a set of medical instruments, Arabic inscriptions from the city of Buda, and two views of that city. STCN 108585026. See John Ferguson, Bibliotheca chemica : a catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris (2 vols., Glasgow 1906), II, 459 (a source for my present note). [ref: 3626 ] $3875 MILLINER MURDERS 20. [True crime:] Terribile fatto accaduto a Perugia di una giovane modista che uccise la rivale, una bambina ed il suo amante. A spese di A. Ferrari [Codogno, tip. Cairo] [19th cent.] Small pamphlet, 14.6 cms. x 9.8 cms., pp. 8. Title-page with border and portrait of a woman. Light browning. Stitched, without covers, to spine-fold. Salacious pamphlet telling the story of a young milliner in Perugia, who murdered her love rival, her lover and a young girl. She then went to the kingdom of Naples, where she became the queen of a band of murderous brigands, but was finally apprehended by the Carabinieri, and killed herself by drinking poison. Printed by the Cairo press of the northern Italian town of Codogno (province of Lodi). This firm was established in 1789 and was still functioning after the Second World War. One proprietor, Gaetano +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 25 of 28 Cairo (1770-1840), invented a form of stereotype printing. Called ‘stereofeidotipia’, it was more economical than other stereotype printing because the printing plate that was produced from the standing type was not made of metal. The method came to be used at the papal presses in Rome. Not in SBN. Not in OCLC. ‘Cenni historici sulla Tipografia Cairo di Codogno’, at https:// www.comune.codogno.lo.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/84 (downloaded 20 September 2020). Marco Aurelio Marchi, Dizionario tecnico-etimologico-filologico (2 vols., Milan, 1828-1829), s.v. ‘stereofeidotipia’. [ref: 3651 ] $160 RARE NUMISMATICS 21. Vico, Enea: Reliqua librorum Aeneae Vici Parmensis ad Imperatorum Historiam ex antiquis nummis pertinentium. A Iacobo Franco Calcographo Veneto in lucem edita. Venetiis, apud Francum 1601. First edition. Quarto (19.9 cms. x 15.4 cms.), pp. [8], followed by 68 full-page numbered plates, etched and engraved with stipple, printed to rectos of leaves with versos blank (misbound - 1-33, then 43, 35-38, 46, 40-42, 34, 44-45, 39, then 47-68 - but all present). Title-page etched and engraved, other preliminary leaves with woodcut decorations, initials and ornamental borders. Last page of prelims. blank. Light foxing and browning, contents loosening, bound in paper covered boards, titled in ink to spine, printed binder’s waste (probably also 17th-cent. Italian) visible to spine, to front cover and under front pastedown (binding rubbed and worn with worming and peeling to spine, text block loosening from it). Stamp (and duplicate stamp) of Bibliotheca Ducalis Gothana (Herzogliche Bibliothek Gotha), manuscript shelfmark to front pastedown (Ph.4.576), manuscript initial ‘F’ to title-page. Early 20th-cent. stamp to final pastedown of D. med. W. Engelhardt, Belle-Alliance strasse 21, Berlin SW61. Rare publication after a pioneer of numismatics, this is a collection of images of the reverses of coins of six Roman emperors: Nerva, Trajan, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Verus. They copy drawings left by the famous artist and scholar Enea Vico of Parma (1523-1567), who was among the first people to consider ancient coins as historical evidence (Stahl). They are understood to relate to his great unfinished project, a 23- volume illustrated commentary on the coins of 40 emperors, of which in his lifetime he only produced the first book (1560). A number ‘23’ - relating to the publishing programme - is put in roman numerals on our title-page. Included in our book is (fol. 4 recto) a bibliography of Vico’s numismatic work - probably intended by the printers to encourage book buying. Vico appears in the great study of Italian artists by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), ‘Le vite de' +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 26 of 28 piu eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori’ (1568). He wrote the first manual of numismatics (1558) and also illustrated the first printed book of numismatics to show - as here - the reverses of imperial coins (1548) (Stenhouse). Our copy, an old duplicate from the ducal library of Gotha (Herzogliche Bibliothek Gotha, now part of Erfurt university library), is to judge by the interesting binder’s waste that we can see, in its first binding. SBN: IT\ICCU\VEAE\007086. OCLC shows one copy outside mainland Europe (British Library). C.E. Dekesel, Bibliotheca nummaria II: bibliography of 17th-century numismatic books (3 vols., London 2003), V 53 Cat. 1. Alan M. Stahl, ‘Numismatics in the Renaissance’, The Princeton University Library Chronicle 69/2 (2018), 217-240, see 223-224. William Stenhouse, review of Enea Vico fra memoria e miraggio della classicità, Le Rovine Circolari 1 by Giulio Bodon. The Numismatic Chronicle 160 (2000), 404-407, see 406-7. See also C. Höper, ‘Vico, Enea’, Grove Art Online version published 26 May 2010, accessed 16 September 2020. Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori scultori, e architettori (3 vols., Florence 1568), I, 306-307. [ref: 3647 ] $3000 METHODIST PREACHING BROADSIDE ON PINK LINEN 22. [Wesleyan Methodists. Sandhurst Circuit] Lord's Day plan of the Wesleyan Methodist preachers in the Sandhurst circuit, 1841-2. Rye, H.P. Clarke, printer, stationer, &c., High Street. [1841]. Broadside printed on pink linen, 33.3 cms. x 30.7 cms. Text and numbers in a table with decorative outer borders, 26.3 cms. x 22 cms., the whole surrounded by a second decorative border (complete printed are 28.7 cms. x 24.5 cms.) Foldlines, slightly waterstained, soiled and faded, blank verso with some light ink stains (not showing through). Table printed on linen, giving the preaching rota for the months of October to January 1841/2 for the Wesleyan Methodists of the circuit around Sandhurst in Kent in the United Kingdom. Showing an extraordinary amount of activity, 42 preachers, all named, are assigned in rotation to 24 chapels in Kent and East Sussex, which between them offer 46 services every Sunday. The surnames of the preachers, with the places where they live, are given in the right-hand margin. We learn from the broadside that the preachers were also booksellers: “Hymn Books, Magazines, &c., may be had of the Itinerant Preachers. The Profits go to the support and spread of the Gospel”.From 1803, women preachers were discouraged from preaching except to other women, although some women general preachers did continue, and some new ones were made in the first half of the nineteenth century (Webb). We have not identified any women amongst the preachers whose surnames are given here. OCLC shows a few other examples of Methodist ‘Lord’s Day plan’ broadsides, but none for this circuit, none recorded printed on cloth and none recorded printed in Rye. Pauline M. Webb, ‘Women’, in A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland, https://dmbi.online/ index.php?do=app.entry&id=3051 (last accessed 13 October 2020). [ref: 3645 ] $450 +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 27 of 28 GIRL'S PUNISHMENT EXERCISE 23. [Wilhelmina de Wyze, aged 12:] [Calligraphic punishment exercise] Haarlem, Netherlands 1821, 5 October. Bifolium, in folio format (31.6 cms. x 20 cms.), first page with 20 lines of manuscript, the other three pages left blank. Light age- yellowing, fold-lines, dustiness to one of the four quarters of the last page showing how it was stored. Possibly a light punishment exercise for arriving late to school, the schoolgirl writes out in a cursive display hand a text which informs that a child who is late commits a double evil, causing disruption and stealing teaching time. The text goes on: children should not sleep too long, should get dressed quickly but well, and should not dawdle on the road. Lying long in bed makes a person unwieldy and unhealthy. Children should not go idle, but be active as their imaginations lead them. Out of an active child there grows a cheerful and diligent adult. One should get used to working and being active from childhood. Those that don't work won't eat. [ref: 3648 ] $180 A WIDOW PROTECTS HER DAUGHTERS 24. [Women’s inheritance protection] Tammineau, Cathérine: [Will] [Halle, present Belgium]. 1744, 30 April. Folio (32 cms. x 20.6 cms.), unbound manuscript, writing to seven and a half pages, two pages at end blank (except for a short docket title to last page). Official legal (tax-paid) stationery. Browning, fraying, some soiling, and loss to central fold of outer bifolium, still very good. Signatures of Catherine Tammineau, Vandenbergh, and Martinus van Rosten. Will of Cathérine Tammineau, widow of Henri del Corde (Delcorde) and rent collector of the village of Haut-Ittre, near Halle in modern Belgium. She has had it made up in order to prevent any suits that might arise between her children after her death, and to maintain the peace and union of her family (p. 1). She has a strategy to protect her daughters’ rights. But first she gives instructions for her own funeral, which will be held in her village church. She +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected] Cadogan Autumn 2020 28 of 28 requests that the bells be rung ever day including on the day of the service. She orders two requiem masses to be sung in a low voice, at the cost of 28 pattars each. She orders a distribution of food to the poor of Haut- Ittre on her funeral day, and she requests that the priest sings a mass for her once a week for the six weeks following her funeral (pp. 2-3). After she has ordered her debts settled, she comes to the distribution of her remaining possessions. All furniture and effects are to be split up equally between children, male and female, who have not either been given a portion already or got married, joined the priesthood or other categories. There is a sum separate to this of 200 silver florins, that she had loaned to her daughter Anne Marie Delcorde. In the event that her boys use legal tactics - which are listed (p. 5) - against the girls in the division of the immovable goods (property), this sum of money will be divided exclusively amongst the women or their heirs. And (pp. 6-7), if the boys do attempt legal tactics against the girls, then a parcel of three bonniers of land (about ten acres), found beside the road that leads from Haut-Ittre to Nivelles, will also go exclusively to Tammineau’s daughters and their descendants. [ref: 3630 ] $500 +44 (0)20 7607 3190 [email protected]