(I) BP16 104403; FB 89144; USTC 145382; Moreau, III, 233; P. Renouard, Simon de Colines, pp. 20\u201322; Schreiber, Colines, no. 5; (II) USTC 184050; Renouard, Estienne, 23:5; Moreau, II, 2367; not in Schreiber, Estiennes, cf. H\u00e4gele, “Einb\u00e4nde aus der Bibliothek des Markus Fugger,” in “Ein Reichtum, den kein Ma\u00df bestimmen kann\u201c: Die Sondersammlungen der Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek Augsburg (Augsburg, 2021), pp. 72\u201380.<\/i><\/p>\n
I: First edition.<\/p>\n
An anthology of the lives of famous women, extracted (or printed entirely) from the works of Plutarchus, Jacopo Filippo Foresti, Battista Fregoso, Raffaele Maffei, Valerand de La Varanne, and other authors, several anonymous. Jean Tixier, a teacher of rhetoric at the Paris Coll\u00e8ge de Navarre, contributed biographies of the founder of his college (Jeanne de Navarre, ca. 1305), the French Queen Anne de Bretagne (1477\u20131514), Charlotte de Bourbon (1474\u2013Fontevraud abbey 14 December 1520, widow of Engelbert de Cl\u00e8ves, comte de Nevers), and lists of infamous women (Meretrices quaedam), educated women (Mulieres doctae), illustrious women (Nomina quarundam foeminarum illustrium), warriors (Mulieres bellicose & masculae virtutis), and women who have caused wars or other evils (Bella & alia quaedam mala a mulieribus orta).<\/p>\n
“The volume opens with Plutarch’s De Claris mulieribus<\/i> (in the Latin version by Alamannus Rinuccinus : first published at Brescia, 1485), and includes the popular Renaissance work of the same title by Jacopo Filippo Foresti, the life of Catherine of Siena, by Jean de Pins, and a section on scholarly women (including Sappho, St. Elizabeth of Sch\u00f6nau, and St. Hildegard) by Baptista Fregoso.<\/p>\n
One of the most interesting pieces consists of the neolatin epic on Joan of Arc (De Gestis Ioanna Gallicae<\/i>, ll. 199-214) by Valerand de la Varanne (Valeranus Varianus) which had first been printed separately in 1516″ (Schreiber).<\/p>\n
The publication of a \u201cwomen\u2019s book\u201d was always an opportunity for authors and editors to pay homage to women from whom they hoped to obtain patronage. Boccaccio had dedicated De Claris mulieribus<\/i> to the lady of the house where he stayed in Naples in 1362 (Andreina Acciaioli, Countess of Altavilla) and Foresti to the widow of Matthias Corvinus (Beatrice d’Aragona) and to noblewomen of the court of Ferrara. Tixier dedicates his book (8 July 1521) to Jeanne de Vignacourt (Wignacourt; d. 1544), wife of the second Pr\u00e9sident au Parlement de Paris, Charles Guillard (1457\u20131537). The printer Simone de Colines cut a fine cribl\u00e9 initial ‘Q’ of their impaled arms (leaf 190v : dexter, Guillard; sinister, Vignacourt).<\/p>\n
II : First and only edition of Lefevre d’\u00c9taples’ almanach on the Martyrs of which only the portion devoted to the month of January was published. “Cette \u00e9dition d’un seul mois du Martyrologe, donn\u00e9e par Lef\u00e8vre d’\u00c9taples, n’a ni date ni nom d’imprimeur, parce que ce n’est qu’un commencement de volume dont le non-ach\u00e8vement fut sans doute caus\u00e9 par la mort de Henri, des presses de qui elle est sorti” (Renouard). “Fragment, probablement seul paru, du Martyrologe” (Moreau).<\/p>\n
Of this rare edition USTC locates one single institutional copy (BnF).<\/p>\n
Fugger provenance<\/p>\n
This copy is from the library of Marcus Fugger (1529\u20131597), scion of the powerful banking family and trading family based in Augsburg. It is one of a large number of bindings he commissioned from Parisian binders in the early 1550s, the great majority in brown calf, simply decorated, with a small tool of a left hand holding a branch, upon which perches a bird (as here), or a crowned double\u2013headed eagle. Marcus habitually wrote his name on the pastedown of the upper cover, but no date, or purchase details. His librarians often added a longitudinal title on vellum strips mounted in the compartments of the spine (as here), and\/or inscribed a title in large capitals along the fore\u2013edge.<\/p>\n
The circumstances of these book purchases are not documented, neither in the Fugger archive in Dillingen nor in the surviving \u00d6ttingen-Wallerstein archive at Harburg. It is possible that Marcus Fugger himself visited Paris in these years, moving between the Fugger branches in France, Spain and the Netherlands. Alternatively, booksellers or other parties might have bought books for him and had them bound on his behalf, as was done for other book-collecting members of the Fugger family. The humanist Ludovicus Carinus (Kiel; 1496-1569), sometime preceptor in the Fugger house, is a potential agent for Marcus in the Paris book trade. From 1549\u2013ca. 1551, Carinus accompanied Marcus\u2019s younger brother, Hans Fugger (1531\u20131598), during his studies and travels in France; after 1555, he was settled in Basel. Once he took over his father’s business, in 1560, the pace of Marcus\u2019s acquisitions sharply decreased. His purchases were now often bound in vellum, and more his elaborate bindings were now mainly commissioned from bookbinders in southern Germany.<\/p>\n
A very attractive copy bound for a great German patron<\/p>\n
Provenance :Marcus Fugger (1529\u20131597; signature on upper pastedown), by descent to \u2013 Philipp Fugger (1567\u20131601), by descent to \u2013Marcus Philipp Fugger (1598\u20131620), by descent to \u2013 Marquard Fugger, Graf von Kirchberg und Weissenhorn (1596\u20131655) \u2013 \u00d6ttingen-Wallerstein, family library at Schloss Maihingen (armorial ink-stamp on title-page) \u2013 Eugen Wolfgang Karl Friedrich Joseph Notger, F\u00fcrst zu \u00d6ttingen-\u00d6ttingen und \u00d6ttingen-Wallerstein (1885\u20131969 [not traced in the Karl & Faber auctions in Munich, 1933-1935]) \u2013 Emil Offenbacher, Kew Gardens, NY\u2013 Cornelius J. Hauck (1893\u20131967), his bequest to \u2013 Cincinnati Historical Society Library (Christie\u2019s New York, 27 June 2006, lot 241) \u2013 Kim Brooker (Bibliotheca Brookeriana, I, lot 86).<\/p>\n
Content:<\/p>\n
(ff. 3\u201314) Plutarchus, De Virtutibus mulierum traductio, per Alamanum Ranutinum ciuem Florentinum (Alamanno Rinuccini, 1426\u20131499); (ff. 14\u2013160) Opus Iacobi Philippi Bergomensis de Claris mulieribus (Jacopo Filippo Foresti, 1434\u20131520); (ff. 160\u2013176) Divae Catharinae Senensis vita \u2026 per loannem Pinum Tolosanum (Jean de Pins, 1470?\u20131537); (ff. 176\u2013186) Aliud De illustribus foeminis opusculum, incerto authore (evidently based on Boccaccio; see L. Torretta, “Il \u2018Liber de Claris Mulieribus\u2019 di Giovanni Boccaccio\u2026 ,” in Giornale storico della letteratura italiana<\/i> 40 (1902), pp. 35\u201365); [inserted bifolium after f. 176 (i.e., yix.x inserted between y8 and z1, as published): De illustrissima et cordatissima Gallorum Regina, & Britonum duce Anna \u2013 Diversa eiusdem annae epitaphia \/ Naenia Annae; De nobilissima femina Caroleta Borboniensi, Nivernorum comite]; (ff. 186v\u2013187) Vita Monegundis (Gr\u00e9goire de Tours); (ff. 188\u2013189) De Foeminis quae doctrina excelluerunt authore Baptista Fulgoso (Battista Fregoso, 1453\u20131504); (ff. 189\u2013190), De Moribus muliervm \u2026 ex commentarijs Raphaelis Volaterrani (Raffaele Maffei, 1455\u20131522); (ff. 190\u2013191) De Blancha Regis Castellae Filia & Fancorum regina \u2013 De illustrissima, et mirae sanctitatis femina D. Ioanna Francorum regina Regalis collegij Nauarrae fundatrice (Jean Tixier); (ff. 191\u2013198) Capita qvaedam De Claris Mulieribus authore Rauisio Textore Niuernensi (Jean Tixier); (ff. 199\u2013214 Valerandi Varanii De Gestis Ioannae virginis Franciae, egregiae bellatricis Libri quatuor (Valerand de la Varanne, fl. Ca. 1500); (ff. 214\u2013217) De Sancta Clotilde, Burgundionvm regis filia, & Francorum regina; (ff. 217\u2013219) De Sancta Genovefa, Virgine gallica, Parhhisiensium patrona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Folio (320 x 210 mm) 221 num. l., 1 nn.l. (blank). Roman type, 45 lines plus headline. Collation: a\u2013y8<\/sup> (+ yix.x) z8<\/sup> A\u2013E6<\/sup> F8 <\/sup> (F8 blank). Woodcut Colines device on title-page, woodcut initials from several series, including a Q with the impaled insignia of the dedicatee and her husband (Vignacourt and Guillard; a2r, A6v, C3r).<\/p>\n [BOUND WITH: ] Jacques LEFEVRE D’ETAPLES.<\/strong> Agones martyrum mensis januarii, libro primo contenti. [Paris: [Henri I Estienne, 1519\/1520<\/i>]. 80 num.ll. Collation: a\u2013k8<\/sup>: Roman type, 45 lines plus headline. Caption title, floriated woodcut initials, including a fine 12-line cribl\u00e9 C.<\/p>\n Parisian polished tan calf over pasteboards (328 x 224 mm), ca. 1550, blind fillets around sides, 2 concentric frames of blind fillets, gilt bud and leaf at outer angles of outer frame, gilt fleuron at outer angles of inner frame, in center gilt hand-held floral sprig surmounted by a bird, spine with 7 full and 2 half bands, fine manuscript longitudinal title on vellum strips mounted in compartments “DE CLARIS. MVLIERIBVS. DIVERSI. AVTORES.,” plain edges (extremities a bit worn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":83598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[544],"product_tag":[1243,1267],"class_list":{"0":"post-83609","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"pa_auteur-tixier-jean-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Jean TIXIER","chapeau":"Marcus Fugger's copy bound for him in a Parisian Workshop","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Simon de Colines, 1521","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n