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GUIDE TO ART IN DESTROYED CHURCHES

1. [Antwerp. Art works:] Beschrijvinghe van de konstige schilderijen belthouwerijen, als oock eenige grafschriften de welcke soo in de Cathedrale, Parochiale, als Religieuse Kercken, ende op den Raet- Huijse te sien syn binnen de stadt Antwerpen 1765. [Antwerp] [1765-1777]. 8vo. (16 cms. x 10.2 cms.), pp. [4] 52 [12], including initial and ﬁnal blanks. Light foxing and browning, very good. Interleaved in the 19th century into a larger-format volume (22.4 cms. x 13.5 cms. in binding), with marbled boards, leather spine and roan corners (binding rubbed and somewhat worn, tear to tail of spine). The interleavings left blank. Unpublished manuscript guide to art in Antwerp. The modestly presented book describes works in situ - and the artistic wealth of the city - prior to destruction and removal under the Austrian and French regimes. Artists featured include Caravaggio, Reni, van Dyck, and Peter Paul Rubens. The Caravaggio,

+44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] 'The Madonna of the Rosary', was removed from Antwerp's Dominican church (where it is here) and sent to Vienna in 1786. The tour includes important art-repository churches which have since been destroyed or decommissioned: St. Michael’s Abbey church (26-27), the church of the Friars Minor Recollects (Minderbroeders) (35-38), the church of the Calced Carmelites (Lieve Vrouwe broeders) (46-50), and the church of the Discalced Carmelites (50-51). In all, thirty places are visited and works of art by 65 artists is recorded. The tour begins in the cathedral, and includes here the Rubens triptych 'The Resurrection of Christ' commissioned by the family of the printer Jan Moretus, and a work by Jacobus de Backer made for the monument to Moretus’ father-in-law Christopher Plantin. At the end of the manuscript, after the indexes but before the ﬁnal blank, is a transcription of an epitaph for his parents given by one Edward Emmanuel Berthout and placed in the cathedral in 1777. This Berthout may perhaps be the author. See Cécile Kruyfhooft, review of Valérie Herremans, ‘Rubens unveiled, paintings from lost Antwerp churches’ (Ghent, 2013), in ‘Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews’ at hnanews.org/hnar/reviews/rubens-unveiled-paintings-lost-antwerp-churches/ (accessed 5 May 2020). [ref: 3525 ] £1200

‘INCA LITERATURE’ - MEDICINAL USES OF THE DONKEY

2. [Banchieri, Adriano]: La nobiltà dell’ asino di Attabalippa dal Perù Provincia del Mondonovo, tradotta in lingua Italiana. Nella quale dopò l’haver descritta la natura del Leone, e dell’ altre Bestie più famose, perferendo[sic.] a tutte l’asino, con sì faceto & piacevole discorso si raccontano tutte le sue facultà, proprietà, virtù, & eccellenze, che’l lettore con suo gentil piacere, senza noia asinesca, apprende à pieno l’utilità, gli agi, e le commodità, che ritrare si possono dall’ asino. Con la tavola di tutte le cose piu notabili. In Pavia, appresso Andrea Viani 1592. Small octavo (14.7 cms. x 9.6 cms.), pp. [10], 70. Woodcut vignette of unicorn to title-page, woodcut initials, printed sidenotes in a minuscule type. Browning and staining, careful repairs t gutters and to verso of title-page (a clean mend), bottom margins shaved (with loss of the odd guideword). Bound in attractive 19th-cent. paper boards, paper label to spine. One of two editions from ﬁrst located year of printing (the other, Venice), this facetious Italian chapbook, purported to be by the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] last Inca emperor Atahualpa (d.1533), is on the nobility of the donkey. The work starts with studies of the dog, the horse, the lion, the monkey, and the elephant, before the examination proper of the donkey begins. The author catalogues the appearance of the ass in literature, history, place-names, proverbs, popular speech, fountains, and gravestones. There are accounts of its tastinesss as a meat, of the high price an ass’s head has reached, and of the medicinal uses of the ass, including of the ass’s milk, its liver, and of donkey dung. “If I had a hundred tongues and as many mouths, and a voice of iron or bronze, it wouldn’t be enough to convey the thousandth part of the praise merited by this stupendous animal”. The present edition contains a foreword not found in the other 1592 printing; this is by Bartolomeo Cerviati, and addressed to Gio. Battista Massarengo, Pavia 20 October 1592. Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) was an Olivetan monk of Bologna, a poet, and an organist and composer and musical theorist of importance. He was to found in 1615 the Bolognese musical academy the Accademia dei Floridi, which was visited by Monteverdi in 1620. Banchieri’s biographer Oscar Mischiati (Dizionario biograﬁco degli italiani) notes “his personality, so endowed with facetious and joking spirit and inclined to the bizarre, the paradox”. The present work was translated into English (1595) (as ‘The noblenesse of the asse’), and into German in 1617. CNCE 4062 (two copies, Milan and Bergamo). Not in OCLC - which only shows the other edition of 1592 (Venice), with copies outside European mainland at NYPL, Yale and Cambridge (with European Americana, which does not have our edition, adding (592/4a) (same criteria) Harvard and BL). A 1588 edition in European Americana (no locations, sourced from Brunet and Graesse) is almost certainly a ghost. My thanks to Dan Slive for providing the European Americana citations. [ref: 3605 ] £1800

ILLUSTRATED EDITION

3. [Banchieri, Adriano]: La nobiltà dell’ asino di Attabalippa dal Perù rifformata da Griffagno delli Impacci, et accresciuta di molte cose non solo piacevoli curiose, e di diletto: ma notabili, e degne d’ogni asinina lode. In Venetia, appresso Camillo Bortoli 1664. First edition thus. Small 8vo. (15 cms. x 10.3 cms.), pp. 95 [1]. With seven woodcut illustrations. Title within borders and with vignette, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Light browning and slight staining, two bifolia loose, early extensions to side-margins +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] of leaves,still an attractive copy, bound in early block-printed wrappers with old repairs. Early marginalium at foot of p. 71. Rare illustrated edition of this chapbook on the subject of the donkey, first recorded printed in 1592 and purported to be by the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa (d.1533). A witness to the continued popularity of this text, this has naive woodcuts borrowing in part from the first fully illustrated edition of Venice, 1599, but mostly new to the work. A veritable bestiary, depicted in our booklet are a dog, a monkey, a horse with knight, lion, elephant, and two different donkeys. The dog (p.3) is based on the 1599 picture, the monkey (p.16) appears to use the actual woodblock of the animal in that edition, but the others are all compositions that did not appear earlier. These seem to be old woodblocks (not just the monkey), and the lion has a constellation of stars which suggests it appeared in a popular astronomical work. These Italian chapbooks are called ‘libri da risma’, lit. ‘books in reams’, books “sold loose (not folded or collated) on average at 12 Venetian lire for every five hundred sheets” (Carnelos, tr.), usually by itinerant salesman. These were ephemeral works with a huge destruction rate. The first illustrated was arguably produced in England in 1595, as a donkey vignette there to title-page is repeated in the text. Between 1599 and ours of 1664 we have located only one other with illustrations, the German-language version of Strasbourg, 1617. IT\ICCU\BA1E\001443 (three locations; one further for a variant with different imprint). OCLC shows locations for 1664 edition outside Italy at John Carter Brown, Staatsbiblothek zu Berlin, and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Michel I 369, 32. 1666 edition only in Vinciana (3334). Laura Carnelos, ‘I libri da risma. Contributo allo studio dell’editoria popolare nell’Italia del ’700’ (n.pl. n.d.), at ilscmilano.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/carnelos.pdf (accessed 7 May 2020), 8. [ref: 3606 ] £1250

WATERS OF THE IRON MINES OF ELBA

4. Buzzegoli, Alberto Giuseppe: Dell’ acqua marziale di Rio nell'isola dell'Elba e dell'uso di essa in medicina e chirurgia trattato storico-fisico-medico d'Alberto Giuseppe Buzzegoli fiorentino, Pubblico Professore di Medicina Pratica e Filosofia in Rio, dedicato al nobiliss. e clariss. sig. senat. marchese Lorenzo Ginori, balì di Sinigaglia, Conte di Urbech, Ciamberlano delle MM. LL. Imperiali ec. ec. In Firenze, appresso Andrea Bonducci 1762. 4to. (23.3 cms. x 17 cms.), pp. XX, 259 [1]. Small woodcut decoration to title-page, woodcut head-and tail-pieces and initials, p. VIII with a small woodcut figure of a naked man with cloak, lyre and brazier, within a wreath. Light age-yellowing, light foxing, a very good copy bound in contemporary drab cartonnage. First edition of this study of waters of the island of Elba off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. The work initiated a period of international interest in the mineralogy of Elba (Repetti). The waters are found in the iron mines of the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] Elban town of Rio. The book includes a description of the island (3-14); the iron mines themselves (14-31); where the springs in the mines are located (32-46); the waters of a spot called Vigneria (46-58); the history of the medical use of the waters (58-66). 67-152 comprises discussion of chemical analysis and experiments, and 153-259 contains medical studies. Buzzegoli, a native of Florence, is described as a public professor of practical medicine and philosophy in Rio. This Enlightenment work is dedicated to Lorenzo Ginori (1734-1791), the prominent porcelain manufacturer. Blake 73. SBN: IT\ICCU\UFIE\003475. OCLC shows copies at NYAM, Yale, Illinois, NLM; BL, Leipzig, Montpellier, and [no location]. Emanuele Repetti, ‘Dizionario geografico fisico storico della Toscana’ (6 vols., Florence 1833-1846), II, 585-6. [ref: 3366 ] £650

MEXICAN HANDBILL FOR POWDER AGAINST VENEREAL DISEASE

5. Castañeda y Olivencia, Matias de: Método que deben observar los enfermos que tomen los polvos de Don Matias de Castañeda y Olibencia, especifico aprobado por el Rey, para curar el morbo venereo y enfermedades que de él proceden, como son todo dolor rehumático, toda úlcera interna y externa llagas interiores en la garganta, tumores, sobrehuesos á las tibias, escrófulas al cuello la fistola del ano, aun quando ésta sea completa, carnosidades en la via de la or[in]a, obstrucciones, tercianas ó quartanas, por inveteradas que sean. [Mexico City] [c.1800]. Handbill, 21.8 cms. x 15.5 cms., printed both sides, text within woodcut decorative borders (17.5 cms. x 12.4 cms.) Light browning, slight spotting and staining, a couple of single wormholes (one in text), very good. Handbill - identified as printed in Mexico (see John Carter Brown Library catalogue) - with instructions for taking the celebrated powders against venereal disease which had been discovered by one Matias de Castañeda y Olivencia. They originated in Madrid. Castañeda, a clerk with no medical education, claimed to have found a cure that did not contain the toxic ingredient of mercury. In 1776 he had it tested on 52 soldiers with +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] venereal disease, who were kept under watch to ensure they took no other medicines. Over 28 days, 31 soldiers got better, and a further 17 in the week following - a spectacular 92% strike rate (Hernández). OCLC shows overall two copies, at John Carter Brown Library (digitized), and the Hamburg State and University Library (probably the same edition). A Valencia-printed edition is at University of Valencia. Mauro Hernández, ‘Libertad y libertinaje en la quiebra del Antiguo Régimen. A propósito de unas partidas de condones’, in Hernando, J., López García, J.M. y Nieto, J.A. (eds.), ‘La historia como arma de reflexión. Estudios en homenaje al profesor Santos Madrazo’, Madrid 2012, 129-146, see 10-11/15 in offprint at academia.edu. [ref: 3542 ] £350

CATALAN MERCHANT ACCOUNTS

6. [Catalan language] [Ruaix family] Llibreta de los generos que Jph. Dordal Tabarner va venent de Ignasi Alegret comensant als 6 de Jener de 1750 [i.e. 1751?]. [And other content]. [Barcelona] 1751-1841. Manuscript, small 4to. (19.4 cms. x 16.5 cms.), notebook with blanks, writing to 46 pages, + 11 loose fold-in sheets (various sizes) with writing. Various hands. Light browning, bound in a contemporary vellum wallet binding, spine with longstitch over leather, fastening partially removed. Inscription to cover: “Ruaix”. A Catalan-language notebook used for commercial accounts with 90 years of entries and folded-in notes (1751-1841). The manuscript dates from a period of official suppression of the Catalan language, beginning with the Nueva Planta decrees (1716) that followed the Spanish War of Succession and saw it banned in public administration. It is interesting to see the language living on in private record-keeping. The last inclusions in our book coincide with the beginnings of the Catalan linguistic revival. The first owner of the book is Joseph Dordal Tabarner, who writes a title-page and keeps a record of payments mostly from one Ignasi Alegret, from 1751 to 1758, in all over 10 pages in different places in the book. The next owner is one Anton Ruax Taberner, presumably related, whose entries start in 1765 and run through to 1794. His successor is Anton Ruaix Blanque; his entries include, from 1797, records of payments to the Congregation of St. Philip Neri of Barcelona, a relationship which continues to the later fold-in notes. We can see that the agents for the Congregation probably used Catalan too. Amongst the references to Barcelona, which place this manuscript in that city, there is one to Ruaix interests in the Carrer Pou. Most of the transactions in the +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] manuscript are carried out with men, although two, from 1795, are with one Taressa Oliber y Huguet. The commodity described in most of the transactions is money, although one from 1796 includes chocolate, and forty boxes of rifles! [ref: 2544 ] £950

RARE ‘ANA’ TITLE - “STILL A WAY TO LAUGH”

7. [Frederick II, King of Prussia:] Frédériciana, ou recueil d’anecdotes, bons mots et traits piquans de Frédéric II, Roi de Prusse. A Paris, chez Lemarchand, libraire, place de l’Ecole, no. 1, en face du café Manoury An IX [1801]. 18mo. (13.3 cms. x 8.5 cms.), pp. [4] xxiv, + frontispiece, engraved by Edmé Bovinet (1767-1834). One-page bookseller’s ads. to verso of title-page. Bound with half-title. Light browning, a very good copy, bound in contemporary wood- patterned pastepaper, spine calf gilt with orange morocco gilt label, corners tipped with calf, edges sprinkled blue (binding rubbed, slightly worn, loss and peeling to spine). Inscription to front pastedown, “Coll: + perf: FCB. 8 Sept. 1853”. Rare humorous publication containing life and anecdotes of Frederick II, King of Prussia, the patron of Voltaire (who features in the work). It was one of a series of titles ending “-ana” sold by this bookseller, priced at a franc a volume, and including volumes for Voltaire (”Voltériana”), Napoleon (”Bonapartiana”), and Molière (”Moliériana”). The bookseller advertises them as “still a way to laugh”. Literary collections with titles ending ‘-ana’ were a form of text dating back to the sixteenth century. Their first bibliography seems to have been published in 1716 (Namur). P. Namur, ‘Bibliographie des ouvrages publiés sous le nom d’ana’ (Brussels 1839), 22 (this work), XVI (first bibliography). OCLC shows copies of present work at Harvard, Sachsische Landesbibliothek Dresden, Universitatsbibliothek Leipzig, and University of Sheffield (UK). [ref: 3489 ] £350

POOR PROVISION

8. [Haarlem, Mennonite poorhouse] [Arkenbout, Martinus]: Aanspraaken, ter gelegenheid der eerste vergadering van regenten und regentessen, in het Armenhuis der *Doopsgezinde Gemeente, vergaderende op ‘t Kl. Heiligland, te Haarlem. Op den 26 van Hooimaand 1782. *Nu de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente, te Haarlem. [Gebeden voor de Armen-schoole der Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente. 1786.]

+44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] [Gebeden, geschikt, om gebruykt te worden in het Armenhuis der Doopsgezinde Gemeente, vergaderende op het Kleine Heilig Land te Haarlem]. Te Haarlem, by C. de Vries, in de Groote Houtstraat [1784] [1786] [1782]. 3 pamphlets, 8vo. (15.8 cms. x 9.7 cms.), pp. 16; 10 [2]; 16. The second with final blank. The first two bound together in contemporary vellum wrappers, the third possibly removed from a binding, and comprising two loose sheets of four folded leaves. Very good. Three publications for the newly-established Mennonite poorhouse of Haarlem in northern Holland, comprising 1. second edition of the sermon of the preacher Martinus Jansz Arkenbout (1718-1790) at the inaugural meeting, 26 July 1782. 2. Prayers, 1786, for the school attached to the poorhouse. 3. An undated pamphlet of prayers for the poorhouse itself, which has been attributed to Arkenbout, 1782 (see STCN). STCN 154191620, 154192031, 154191833. Outside Netherlands, OCLC shows copies of first edition of first work at Bethel College Library, North Newton (KS) and Eastern Mennonite University (VA); second at Bethel College Library; third at Bethel College Library also. [ref: 3594 ] £350

JESUIT MEDITATIONS FOR LAY CONFRATERNITY

9. Maister. Joseph S.J.: Veritates aeternae de obligatione, quam quisque Christianus habet, Christum ducem sequendi, D.D. sodalibus almae, ac venerabilis sodalitatis majoris B.V. Mariae, ab angelo salutatae, et sine labe originali conceptae, in archiducali, & academico Soc. Jesu collegio Graecii erectae, ac conﬁrmatae, primo hebdomadae sanctae triduo anno M.DCC.LXVI. Sodalitatis CLXXI. Propositae a P. Josepho Maister S.J. ejusdem sodalitatis praeside. Graecii [Graz], typis haeredum Widmanstadii [1766]. First edition. 8vo. (16.1 cms. x 10 cms.), pp. [2] 184. Woodcut head-piece at p. 7 featuring Eye of Providence, small woodcut tail-piece at p. 63 with same, some further decoration. Foxing, light browning, a very good copy in contemporary sheep, covers stamped with an ornate gilt panel, central parts of the covers mottled, with borders to covers a uniform medium brown, compartments to spine stamped with gilt ﬂoral decoration, marbled pastedowns, edges gilt and simply gauffered, but only at corners. Binding rubbed, with slight wear, and loss to head and tail of spine, but still very good. Stamps of “Dom. tertiae Prob. Prov. Germ. S.J.” Paper label to spine. Attractively-bound copy of an uncommon work, this is one of 21 volumes of meditations by Joseph Maister (1714-1794), a Jesuit teacher who was born and taught in Graz. The books were published individually between 1757 and 1782 and had titles beginning ‘Veritates aeternae’ (’eternal truths’). They were produced for a confraternity attached to the Jesuit college of Graz. Joseph Maister was its president. An interesting binding, cost has been trimmed by using sheep instead of calf and using marbled paper on pastedowns only. Perhaps it was a standard binding for the books. Backer-Sommervogel V, 372-3. OCLC shows copies at Jesuitenbibliothek (Switzerland), Bibliothèque Nationale (France), Priesterseminar Trier Bibliothek, and in the collections of the Italian Jesuits. [ref: 3563 ] £275 +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected]

DOCUMENTS FOR THE FIRST CONVENT OF NEW SPAIN

10. [Mexico City. Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion] Traslados autorizados de breves y otras scripturas tocantes el monasterio de Nra Señora de la Concepcion de esta ciudad de Mexico de Nueva España. El qual mando hazer y escrevir el yllmo y rmo señor Don Pedro Moya de Contreras Arcobispo de Mexico del Consejo de Su Magestad y perlado[sic.] del dho monasterio. Mexico City 1576 [-1588]. Manuscript, folio (29.3 cms. x 21.1 cms.), fols. [1] 1-17, 21-38 + fols. 39-44 (entirely blank). In total 57 pages present with writing. Fols. 18-20 lacking. Title-page loose. Light browning, +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] very good, bound in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with fastening and attachment as discussed below, some old text and sums to front cover including date 1623, date 1576 written here also in an early hand, early inscription to back inside cover ‘Del Convento de Nra’. Occasional early annotation. Dossier of copied legal documents, sometimes with Spanish introduction, prepared for the first female convent of New Spain, the Conceptionist house of Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion in Mexico City (founded 1540). The manuscript was commissioned by the Archbishop of Mexico and sometime Viceroy Pedro Moya de Contreras (c.1530-1591), on behalf of the abbess Juana de Soto (fol. 8r). The convent is no longer functioning, and outside Mexico, we have only traced one other item from its archive, a record of chantries of 1567-1614 (Library of Congress Kislak MS 1017). Early entrants to this monastery included two mestiza daughters of the Aztec empress Isabel de Moctezuma (d.1551). They joined the convent shortly after their mother’s death. The convent was otherwise kept, from the outset, for women of entirely Spanish descent (Lavrin). It had high social status, and a brief from Pius V (I October 1571), copied here, refers to its “many women born of noble stock” (fol. 21v). Our documents, for which we have a full description of contents, are written after originals dating from 1489 to 1588, and include letters, bulls and briefs specifically written for the monastery. The final item in the collection is a copy of a licence of Sixtus V, 19 March 1588, allowing the convent to celebrate on 21 October the liturgical offices of St. Hilarion, and St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins, the Romano-British martyrs believed killed in Cologne. The dossier is written in a collection of handwriting styles, sometimes in juxtaposition in the same section, and has the marks of two apostolic notaries, Fernando de Cuevas (seven times), and Luis de Toro (twice). Six copyists have been counted for this attractive manuscript. It is bound in a vellum wallet binding with alum-tawed leather fastenings. An interesting feature of the binding is an unusual butterfly-shaped attachment of alum-tawed leather, to the top of the spine. This was probably to facilitate a physical grip on the item, and has been described helpfully by a senior librarian as a “butterfly pull tab”. A note on paper: an examination of watermarks places the manuscript’s paper firmly in the sixteenth century. We have found no exact match, but Briquet 13766 - Valladolid 1550 - is similar (we cite below another authority (Bofarull) which has a collection of similar watermarks, all again in mid-16th-cent. Valladolid, and Madrid). The paper may interestingly ‘though have been non-Spanish in origin. The watermark - which is of an almost straight serpent with a hook to tail, a jutting lower jaw, and four articulations - may well be part of a group believed to come from southwest France, possibly in the district of Angoulême (Briquet). This was a high-quality paper for international export. Similar examples are even found in England (1577 and 1580) (Gravell). Our paper may have left France via the port of La Rochelle on the Atlantic seaboard, and travelled to Veracruz on Mexico’s Atlantic coast via Spain’s Atlantic port of Seville. The paper for the endpapers has the ‘tre mundi’ (three circles) characteristic of Genoa, whose imports were very popular in Spain and the Spanish Empire (McTigue). In all, an early, unusual and very interesting artefact from an important women’s institution of colonial Latin America. Asunción Lavrin, ‘Brides of Christ, conventual life in colonial Mexico’ (Stanford 2008), 52, 247. C.M. Briquet, ‘Les filigranes’, 2nd ed. (Leipzig 1923), IV, 677 and see group 13.758-13.770, including particularly our cited 13.766. Francisco de Bofarull y Sans, ‘Los animales en las marcas del papel’ (Barcelona 1910) 111. Gravell Watermark Archive SNK. 002.1, SNK.003.1, SNK.004.1 (gravell.org/index.php). Clara de la Peña McTigue, ‘Paper and papermaking in Spain’, in Mark P. McDonald, ‘Renaissance to Goya, prints and drawings from Spain’ (London 2012), 274-281, see 276. [ref: 3519 ] £7500

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SCHOOL BILL

11. [Milan. Collegio dei Patellani] Receipt for sundries at a boys’ educational establishment, totalling 160 lire, 5 soldi, signed by the rector signed Giovanni Battista Ramelli. [Milan] [Document dated in MS 1737, 9 November]. Single sheet 26.4 cms. x 17.6 cms., printed to recto, with to head, large etched and engraved armorial, 16 cms. x 10.8 cms., by Paolo Bianchi, Milan (see below). Below this, 20 lines letterpress, with space for manuscript (ﬁlled in). Central horizontal foldline, very good. Receipt from a private boys’ educational institution, the Collegio dei Patellani, which was founded in the 17th century by Carlo Patellani for the education of his and other Milanese high-born families. The payment of 160 lire 5 soldi had been received from Tomasso Gavigliani in advance for the next three months, for stay at the boarding house of his brother, Abbate Giuseppe Gavigliani. The largest part of the bill consisted of general boarding fees. There were also payments to servants, for bed and linen, and candles. Regarding the engraver of the large armorial to head, Benezit lists a Giovanni Paolo Bianchi of Milan, who used initials ‘P.B.’, and who worked proliﬁcally in Milan between the years 1621 and 1646, and possibly later. [ref: 3564 ] £195

MEDITATIONS FOR DAYS IN THE JESUIT CALENDAR

12. Miller [Müller], Joannes, S.J.: Meditationes ad mentem, & meditandi methodum S.P.N. Ignatii de Loyola, Societatis Jesus fundatoris, in exercitiis spiritualibus expressam, pro singulis anni diebus adaptatae, â P. Joanne Miller Societatis ejusdem sacerdote; in usum religiosorum dictae Societatis. Pragae [Prague], typis Univers. Carolo-Ferdinandeae in Coll. Soc. Jesu ad S. Clement. [1708]. First edition. 8vo. (16.3 cms. x 10.2 cms.), fols. [213], signed a6A-Bb8Cc7. Woodcut initials and tailpiece. Light browning, touch of worming in blank of title-page, still very good, bound in contemporary pigskin, decorated in blind, clasps intact, all edges blue (binding rubbed and slightly worn, touch of worming around spine, but very good). Old inscription to front pastedown scratched out, old library stamps to title-page recto and verso, manuscript shelfmark to title-page also.

+44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] Copy bound in clasped pigskin of the ﬁrst edition of this set of meditations assigned to different days of the year, they are written on the model of the important ‘Spiritual Exercises’ by the founder of the Jesuits St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), and intended for members of the Jesuit order. The approbation is signed by the superior of the Jesuit province of Bohemia. The 385 meditations are assigned to days from the ﬁrst Sunday of Lent, to the feast of the Jesuit ‘Apostle of the Indies’ St. Francis Xavier (3 December). The book has an introduction with explanation of how to use it, and an index at end. Miller or Müller (1650-1723) was variously rector of the college of Kłodzko (present Poland), in which region he was born; Eger in present Hungary; and Jihlava and Olomouc in present Czechia. He was himself in charge of the Jesuit province of Bohemia for four years (Backer-Sommervogel). Backer-Sommervogel V 1095,4. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at St. John’s University (MN); Aberdeen, Oxford; Chile BN, Mexico BN. Our copy checked against Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, copies Asc.3246, Asc.3247. [ref: 3562 ] £375

TAKING TOBACCO IN CHURCH

13. Neri, Giovanni Battista [Scaglia, Desiderio]: De iudice S. Inquisitionis opusculum. A.R.A.P.F. Ioanne Baptista Neri ordinis Minimorum, S. Francisci de Paula, s. theologiae lectore iubilato, ac Iuris Canonici professore compilatum, & Sereniss. Cosmo III. Magno Etruriae Duci ex corde dicatum. Florentiae, ex typographia Petri Matini, sub signo Leonis. Superiorum permissu. 1685. First edition. 4to. (20.5 cms. x 15 cms.), pp. [12] 180 [14]. Lacking final blank. With half-title (titled here ‘Praxis Sanctae Inquisitionis’). Woodcut decoration and initials. Inscription to half-title scored through with ink causing burn through the sheet, scoring also to front free endpaper, some staining, else light browning, still certainly good, bound in contemporary limp vellum, pastedowns from an unidentified Italian-language broadside, Florence, 1685, on a subject relating to church ceremonial, title inked to spine, edges red (binding with worming to joints but good). Inscription to half-title, c.1800: “Habet ad usum R.P.L. [?]arius Fr. Franc[.]us Parrales Ord.s Praed. eiusdem S. Inquisit. Qualificator, Superioris permissu” (see below). Number written in margin in old hand at 120, 121, 123, 129. In a custom-made box. Handbook to being a judge of the Holy Inquisition. It is substantially based on an unpublished Italian-language work, the ‘Prattica per procedere nelle cause del S. Offizio’ of Cardinal Desiderio Scaglia (1567-1639), who co-sentenced Galileo. This had circulated in manuscript in the early seventeenth century. An interesting work in itself, Neri provides for it one entirely new section, on the surprising subject of taking tobacco (143-70). The new author discusses a papal prohibition of 1642 against consumption of tobacco in churches under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Seville. Neri thinks that members of the clergy should abstain from tobacco in church, sacristy and choir (whether the church is open or closed), and also rectory - where smoking could disturb priests preparing to celebrate the Mass, and where tobacco chewing presented the danger that the host be ejected in consequent spitting. Regarding the congregation taking tobacco at church, Neri thinks that the real scandal is with smoking, which provokes laughter amongst onlookers and sends a +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] noxious odour through the church. He is not against the moderate ingestion of tobacco through chewing or snuff, although too much will lead to sneezing, nose-blowing, a lot of spitting and accompanying laughter, and distraction from the mysteries celebrated at the altar. One question concerns whether taking tobacco before the Mass constitutes the mortal sin of breaking the fast. Provided that no tobacco enters the stomach, Neri takes the view that it doesn’t, and notes that tobacco-taking before Mass was a widespread custom, particularly in Spain (Tedeschi). Neri was a professor of theology and canon law and a Minimite friar of Florence. Other subjects covered in this useful work - and coming from the original and important author Scaglia - include polygamy (22-27), the issue of confessors trying to seduce women (27-64), fortune-telling (65-76), possession of prohibited books (80-85). Pages 121-123 concern torture, and 129-143 are on prosecuting witchcraft. There is much of interest to study here. Our copy was bound in contemporary Florence (as we can tell from the broadside used for the pastedowns) but, written as it is in the international language of Latin, may have travelled far beyond. The Dominican Francisco Parrales, Qualificator of the Holy Inquisition, who owned it, may be the Dominican of the same name, listed as Calificador (qualificator) of the Tribunal of the Faith (i.e. Holy Inquisition), of the Archdiocese of Sante Fe (Bogotà), who was also parish priest of Chocontà in modern Colombia in 1810. SBN: IT\ICCU\TO0E\001201. Not in Arents. OCLC shows copies outside continental Europe at Columbia, Trinity, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Huntington; Cambridge. John Tedeschi, ‘Literary piracy in seventeenth-century Florence: Giovanni Battista Neri’s De Iudice S. Inquisitionis opusculum’, Huntington Library Quarterly 50 (1987), 107-118. On Scaglia, see article by Vincenzo Lavenia in ‘Dizionario biografico degli italiani’ 91 (2018), accessed at treccani.it/enciclopedia/desiderio-scaglia_(Dizionario-Biografico) (28 April 2020). On provenance of our copy, see Armando Martínez Garnica and Daniel Gutiérrez Ardila, eds., ‘Quién es quién en 1810. Guía de forasteros del Virreinato de Santa Fe’ (Bogotá 2010), pp. [159] and [165] of unpaginated version downloaded at rodriguezuribe.co/ histories/Guia_de_Forasteros.pdf (28 April 2020). [ref: 3611 ] £1250

FUTURE HOME OF SOR JUANA

14. Pérez de la Serna, Juan (Archbishop of Mexico): Licence given by the archbishop to the mother prior of the convent of St. Jerome, Mexico City, concerning dowry of novice Magdalena de San Juan, daughter of Jácome Alfonso and Francisca de Arévalo, deceased. Mexico City 1620, July 21 MS, one folio-sized sheet (31.2 cms. x 21.6 cms.), 180 words (including signatures), in 18 lines. Light foxing, very good. Watermark of a cross within a shield with, below, the letter R. An interesting document for Mexican convent economics and the lives of nuns. A three-thousand peso dowry of a novice, one Magdalena de San Juan, legitimate daughter of Jácome Alfonso and Francisca de Arévalo (both deceased), is to be made over to the (Hieronymite) convent of St. Jerome (and St. Paula) of Mexico City. The nun was to receive 700 pesos to have for the rest of her life, any left over to return to the monastery on her death. 3,000 pesos in 1620 was probably on the upper end of what was an entry charge to a convent (Lavrin). The size of the dowry points to Sor Magdalena being a member of the colonial elite, who were a main component of +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] Mexico’s women religious population, which was also almost exclusively white. The Hieronymite convent of St. Jerome and St. Paula of Mexico City was founded in 1585. It housed, between 1669 and 1695, the poet and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Permission for the present agreement was given by the Archbishop of Mexico, Juan Pérez de la Serna (1573-1631), who signs himself “the Archbishop of Mexico”. This prelate was important in the development of the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe (his portrait now hangs in the shrine), and faced difficult tensions between white creoles and Spaniards, and between secular and religious clergy, that led to rebellion in 1624. Our document is written, and also signed, by royal notary Andrés Moreno (active 1591-1640). A full transcription is available. Asunción Lavrin, ‘Brides of Christ, conventual life in colonial Mexico’ (Stanford 2008), see p. 24 for dowry sizes. Biography of Pérez de la Serna by Manuel Casado Arboniéz in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico at http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/14279/juan-perez-de-la- serna (consulted 24 April 2020). For dates of notary Moreno, see Raquel Pineda Mendoza, Edén Mario Zárate Sanchez, ‘Catálogos de documentos de arte, archivo de notarías de la Ciudad de México Protocolos IV’ (Mexico City 2005), 61. [ref: 3543 ] £475

NICELY ILLUSTRATED

15. [Perspective] Perspective. [Cambridge?] [c.1800]. MS, vellum-bound 4to. notebook mostly of blank leaves (23.1 cms. x 18.6 cms.), 42 pages of the book with text, diagrams or illustration (23 pages with text, 8 mathematical diagrams (numbered 7 [1]), full- or half-page, and 14 full-page pictorial illustrations (including one fold-out) with wash (grey, also pink and yellow)). Laid paper with watermarks TC/TG, 1796, and GR with bugle device (the fold-out on wove paper, pasted onto a stub; one other illustration also on a sheet pasted onto a stub but probably on a sheet cut from the notebook). Some soiling and warping to binding, very good, edges mottled red. Laid in, a 9- page typed transcription of the manuscript (early 20th-cent.?), also two other sheets with MS bibliographical notes, 20th-cent. (see below). At end of manuscript, pencil drawings (of Roman architectural ruins) of indeterminate date, to two pages. A, neat, attractive and sophisticated illustrated manuscript treatise, not located in print, teaching the history, and the science (biological and geometrical), of perspective. The author invites the reader to dissect a sheep’s or bullock’s eye, instructs them to make diagrams, and explains false perspective. The treatise may have been intended to be longer than what we have here. The text covers the first five illustrations. Of those that follow, nine more are +44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] marked up with letters for commentary, including two titled fig. 6 and fig. 7. It is possible the manuscript was made in Cambridge. It was certainly purchased by somebody with connections there, and perhaps therefore at a Cambridge bookshop. It has folded-in, notes, by all appearances on a copy of Jacques Breuil, ‘La perspective pratique’, vol. I (Paris 1663), which I bought with this, and will include. In those notes, the owner refers for example to Cambridge shelfmark L.27.14 (an English edition). [ref: 3591 ] £850

40- OR 48-CARD DECKS

16. [Printing history] Guëmes y Horcasitas, Juan Francisco, Conde de Revilla Gigedo (Governor of New Spain): [Privilege for making playing cards given to Joseph Vasques Yañes] Por quanto en la Real Almoneda que se zelebró en esta corte á los sinco de Diziembre del año pasado de mil setecientos sinquenta, y dos, se rematò el assiento de la Real Fabrica, y estampa de Naypes de esta nueba España [...] [Mexico City] [1753]. Folio (28.7 cms. x 20.4 cms.), pp. 13 [1]. Page 13 with blank space for filling in (still blank). Light browning, staining to edges, a small piece of paper cut out of blank bottom margin in first leaf (replaced with blank paper), booklet stab-stitched but disbound, red mottling to edges. Duty stamps to first and last pages. Unlocated printed document from the governor of New Spain, awarding a five-year privilege for the making and supply of playing cards in the Spanish imperial territories of New Spain, New Galicia, New Biscay, Campeche (all present-day Mexico or USA); Guatemala; and the Philippines - to one Joseph Vasques Yañes. With the privilege came a lease of the imperial playing card factory, the Real Fabrica y Estampa de Naipes. The cards were sold in decks of forty or forty-eight, for minimum prices respectively of four and five reales (see clause 14); maximum prices were also controlled. There was a ban on cards imported from Spain, France, Peru and China, as well as anywhere else (clause 4). Gambling with the cards was banned (clause 22). Not in OCLC. [ref: 3545 ] ON RESERVE

TABLES OF LAW

17. Sédillez, Mathurin-Louis-Étienne: Nomographie ou tableaux analytiques de législation, accompagnés d’une explication sommaire, pour servir de suite aux Vues Générales sur la Composition du Code Civil, présentées au Conseil des Anciens le 23 pluviose an 7, par M.L.E. Sédillez (de Nemours), départment de Seine-et-Marne [...] [Paris] De l’Imprimerie Nationale An VII [1799]. First edition. 4to. (27 cms. x 21.7 cms.), pp. viii, 32, + [1] 7 letterpress tables, as called for in commentary, on six fold-outs. Uncut, stab-stitched in original plain paper wrappers, some staining, loss to spine, a bite-mark to bottom margin. Wonderfully untouched copy of a work by the proliﬁc legal and political writer Mathurin- Louis-Étienne Sédillez (1745-1820) which comprises analytical tables of public law with

+44 (0)20 7607 3190 Cadogan Spring 2020 [email protected] commentary. The author, writing during the French Revolution, is inﬂuenced by the famous ‘Tableau des connoissances humaines’ found in Diderot and D’Alembert’s ‘Encyclopédie’. His tables cover the subjects of general organization, police, justice, interior administration, foreign relations, armed force, and public treasure. An introductory table charts the stages of development from a single man to the French constitution. The author wishes it wasn’t he who had written the book and that Montesquieu, Rousseau or Cordorcet had produced it instead (Introduction). OCLC shows copies at British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale, CCFr adding Rennes, Alençon, Paris Archives Nationales, and (possibly) Clermont-Ferrand. [ref: 3609 ] £450

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