FRENCH MISCELLANY · 1 MAGGS BROS. LTD · 48 BEDFORD SQUARE · LONDON · WC1B 3DR 1. DE GARATIS (Martinus) Clarissimi iurisconsulti domini Martini de Caraziis Laudensis solenes et quottidiani ac practicabiles tractati sequuntur. Paris: Thomas Kees and Jean Lambert for A Poncet Le Preux, 22 October, 1513. (With:) JOHANNES (Monarchius Cisterciensis). Defensorium FRENCH Iuris. Rouen: Michael Angier and Jean Mace, 1518. £2500 I. Title printed in red and black, with criblé metalcut device of publisher MISCELLANY Poncet le Preux on title page with his monogram and name, criblé initials throughout, one with guide letter. Gothic letter. PART I. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY II. Title printed in red and black, woodcut initials throughout, some historiated, one woodcut shield ornament (fol. f2(r)), text in columns. TEL. NO. +44 (0)20 7493 7160 Gothic letter. EMAIL: [email protected] 4to (200 x 140mm). 96ff; 88ff (of 96, lacking final quire ‘M’, final tract by Peter of Ancarano). Contemporary limp calf, upper cover panelled with hunting roll border (EBDB r000644) and lattice pattern at centre (EBDB r000519), lower with floral roll (EBDB r000646) and simple blind-fillet pattern at centre, executed in Bavaria, Germany; with stamped monogram ’PAZL’ ( Placidus Hieber Abt Zu Lambach) and date, 1659, spine with three raised bands, painted, with manuscript title at head (calf worn, corners and headcaps chipped, worming to upper cover and spine, remnants of ties). A handsomely-bound volume from the library of the Abbot of Lambach comprising two rare works on jurisprudence: the first, a collection of tracts on Roman and canon law by fifteenth-century jurist and economist Martinus de Garatis (Martino Garatti da Lodi, d.1453); the second, a compilation of legal tracts by medieval and early modern jurists. The first of this collection is Johannes Monachus Cisterciensis’ (late thirteenth-century) popular tract on defense law, followed by a series of tracts on various other legal subjects including arbitration, intestacy, and notarial law. The first five essays in particular were repeatedly printed together in other such compilations (e.g. at Bologna, Ugo Rugerius, 1499) and the work of De Garatis and Johannes Monachus Cisterciensis appear to have been well-known staples of legal education. As the imprint on the title page explains, publishers Michael Angier and Jean 13 FRENCH MISCELLANY · 2 Macé were based in Caen and Rennes respectively, but operated also from shared premises in Rouen; according to the imprint, Angier was recognised as a bookseller and binder by the university, and thus his ‘selection of titles was generally oriented toward the needs of masters and students’ there (Booton, 456). Such legal compendia constituted an important part of Macé’s output. The attractive if unusual limp binding of this volume, complete with hunting roll, is Bavarian (EBDB workshop no. w002121, Augsburg, active 1482-1532); the stamped monogram towards the head of the upper cover is that of Placidus Hieber (1615-78), the Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Lambach in Austria, which had an extensive library (it is the Abbey’s library stamp at the foot of the title page). Hieber was notable in the succession of abbots of the monastery for being murdered by the head of the monastery kitchens - whom he had apparently reprimanded - with a poisoned apple tart (Ronus, 105). Sporadic interlinear and marginal annotation in Latin in the first volume, particularly heavy in ‘De primogenitura’. Some foxing, a little worming to inner and lower blank margins of gatherings a-p of first volume, not affecting text. Tear along gutter of f. k1 of second work, neatly repaired, flaw to gutter of f. L1, otherwise a clean, attractive copy. I. Renouard, ICP II, 579. Not in Adams or BMSTC (French). OCLC: 1 in Munich, 1 in the Danish National Library. II. Delisle, Catalogue des Livres Imprimes ou Publies a Caen avant le milieu du XVIe siecle I (1903), 230. D.E. Booton, ‘The Cover Design’, The Library Quarterly 81.4 (2011), 455-6. R. Ronus, ‘A Medal of the Abbey of Lambach’, Numismatics International Bulletin 50.5-6 (2015), 103-5. Not on OCLC. [228040] FRENCH MISCELLANY · 3 2. JUVENAL (Decius Junius) Satyrae decem et sex. Cum 3. LUCANUS (Marcus Annaeus). M. Annei Lvcani Civilis annotationibus in margine adiectis, quae breuis commentarij vice belli libri X. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1528. £750 esse possint. [With:] Auli persii flacci satyrae sex. Paris: S. de Colines, Woodcut printers device on title page, white on black woodcut initials 1528. £500 with crible grounds. Italic type. Colines’ woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials. 8vo (160 x 105mm). 156ff. Blind-tooled French calf, covers panelled with fillets 8vo (155 x 95mm). 68; 13 [1(blank)]ff. 17th-century calf, rebacked (calf scuffed and and an ornamental roll, with fleur-de-lys in central compartment, spine with stained in places, extremities rubbed). seven raised bands (rebacked, spine significantly chipped and worn with bands visible, joints cracked, wear to extremities, covers scuffed). Simon de Colines’ attractive first edition of the satires of Juvenal and Persius, following the text of the Aldine editions. The life of Juvenal is First edition by Simon de Colines of Lucan’s Civil War, or Pharsalia, found on the verso of the title page; the printed notes in the margins his epic on the wars between Caesar and the forces of the Republic are those of Coelius Curio. under Pompey, and subsequently Cato. Colines’ text is based on Provenance: from the celebrated library of the surgeon Charles the 1493 edition produced at Venice by Simon Bevilaqua, and Bernard (see ODNB) who died at Longleat, with his signature on incorporates corrections and amendments made by the Aldine title-page. Bernard’s sale was held at the Black Boy coffee house on Press in their 1502 edition. The epic as it stands is unfinished, March 22, 1711. There are a few minute contemporary notes in the interrupted by Lucan’s suicide (in 65 A.D.) on the orders of the Juvenal. With bookplate of bibliophile Mary Augusta Elton with the Roman government following his involvement in an unsuccessful motto from Martial, ‘non norunt haec monumenta mori’, ’these great conspiracy against Emperor Nero. monuments do not know how to die.’ This is a beautifully printed volume, made distinctive by Simon Renouard, Colines, 125 & 128; Moreau III no. 1533 & 1534; Schreiber de Colines’ elegant italic type. 38 & 40. [228318] Provenance: From the library of the Duke of Sussex, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Ownership inscription, deleted, on front free endpaper, and inscription at head of verso of final leaf, dated 1798. Fore-edges of title page and final leaf discoloured, lower corner of f.129 untrimmed, otherwise in good condition. K. Amert, ‘Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne’, Book History 8 (2005), 1-10. H.D.L. Vervliet, The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance (Brill, 2008), 63-96. Adams L1569. BMSTC (French), p.290. Renouard ( Colines ), 125. OCLC: (UK: BL, Cambridge. USA: Chicago, Illinois, St John’s, Columbia, Michigan). [228243] FRENCH MISCELLANY · 4 4. VALERIUS FLACCUS (Caius) Argonauticon libri octo. Paris, Simon de Colines, 1532. £550 Colines’ ‘Tempus’ device on title page, 3-6 line initial spaces, all with guide letters. Italic type. 8vo (160 x 110mm). 103, [1]ff. (ff.97-100 misbound), ruled in brown ink. C18th calf, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine gilt with red morocco label, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (joints split but holding, chipped at head and foot of spine, corners bumped and worn). Colines’ first edition of Roman poet Valerius Flaccus’ (45- 90 A.D.) epic, recounting the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. This is the second edition of the text to have been edited by Engentinus (Philipp Engelbrecht, 1490-1528), as indicated by the date of his dedication in this volume, borrowed from the Strasbourg edition of 1525. Engentinus was professor of poetics at the university of Freiburg. A contemporary and acquaintance of Erasmus, he was an attendee at the Diet of Worms in 1521 and subsequently wrote in defence of Martin Luther. Flaccus’ epic was never completed. The poet drew heavily on the only text about the Argonauts that preceded his, that of 5. BOUCHET (Jean) Les angoysses & remedes damours. Apollonius the Rhodian, yet additions and omissions of his Du traverseur en son adolescence [in verse]. Poitiers: Jehan & own mark Flaccus’ writing as being entirely independent. Enguilbert de Marnef, 8 January 1536. £1,250 Provenance: Note in brown ink on recto of final leaf. Small Printers’ device on title page, last leaf with privilege on recto and pelican bookplate on rear paste-down, remnant of wax at foot of title. device on verso. Small, closed tear to title page, not touching text. Waterstaining 4to (180 x 125mm). [8], cxxi [ie. cxxiii], [3]pp (expert facsimile of A4 with to fore-edge of gathering ‘e’. Small burnmark to f.86, slightly full-page woodcut on early paper, likely done around time of binding). 18th- affecting text. century calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with title in second compartment Adams, V78. BMSTC (French), 433. Renouard (Colines), 200. (extremities rubbed, spine chipped, repair at foot of upper cover). Schreiber, 90. Schweiger 1099. [228249] First authorised edition, printed in lettre batârde. Jean Bouchet FRENCH MISCELLANY · 5 (Jan. 1476- c. 1559), lawyer, chronicler, polemicist and poet is L’Amoureux Transy’, Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance associated with the Rhetoriqueurs, writing in a style inspired by 50.1 (1988), 39-55. OCLC: (UK: BL, Oxford. US: Harvard only). the medieval tradition (which the lettre batârde [228346] reinforces). Under the sobriquet ’Traverseur des voyes périlleuses’ Bouchet was the author 6. ANACREON Teij odae. [Odes]. Paris, of numerous poetical works; this is the first Henri Estienne, 1554.