Boccaccio, Giovanni. Laberinto d’amore di m. Giouanni Boccaccio. Con vna epistola confortatoria a messer Pino di Rossi del medesimo auttore. Nouamente corretto. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, December 1529. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Fiammetta amorosa de m. Giouanno Boccaccio ricorretta di nuouo. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, March 1525. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Ameto ouer comedia delle nimphe fiorentine compilata da Messer Giouanni Boccacci da Certaldo cittadino di Firenze. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino & Vincenzo di Paolo, 20 December 1524. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Amorosa visione di m. Giouan. Boccaccio, nuouamente ritrouata, nella quale si contengono cinque triumphi, cioe. Triumpho di sapientia, di gloria, di ricchezza, di amore, e di fortuna. Apologia di Gieronimo Claricio immol. contro detrattori della poesia del Boccaccio. Osseruationi di uolgar grammatica del Boccaccio. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1531
Seven bindings are now recorded with the coat of arms of the Tuti family of Siena on their covers. Six cover works of ancient writers, all but one in Aldine editions. These texts evidently were acquired for study, as two (Aristophanes and Lucretius) were bound with additional endleaves for notes. The present volume, gathering four works of Boccaccio, in Italian, published 1524–1531, presumably was bought for recreation.
In 1985, Anthony Hobson knew of three volumes (Aristophanes, Lucretius, Sophocles), which he localized to Rome. Judging from general features, he supposed each was made in a different Roman shop, and that the three bindings “date from the 1540s.” Hobson did not discover who bought the books and had them bound, but speculated that the owner was a learned man, from the serious texts, and because he had entered into one several pages of Greek in “an accomplished hand” (“Some Sixteenth-century Buyers of Books in Rome and Elsewhere,” in Humanistica Lovaniensia 34a [1985], pp. 65–75). Hobson was unaware that Tammaro De Marinis had recorded three other volumes with the same coat of arms as Venetian bindings: Boccaccio, Plautus, Seneca (La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, nos. 2327–2329). The Boccaccio and another binding, unknown to both Hobson and De Marinis (on the 1528 Aldine Macrobius), are in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana.
The Tuti were a noble family, originally of Roccalbegna (Grosetto), arrived in Siena by the middle of the fifteenth century. The family palace was in Terzo San Martino in the Via Pantaneto, directly behind the Logge del Papa. A strong family association with the papacy is evidenced by a large escutcheon on the façade of the palace, bearing the arms of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) flanked by shields bearing the Tuti family arms: D’azzurro al bastone nodoso posto in banda accompagnato da quattro foglie disposte in cinta, il tutto d’oro. In 1462, Pius II appointed a Francesco Tuti as Podestà di Viterbo. Alexander VI in 1497 named Benedetto di Giovanni Tuti (Benedictus de Senis; d. 1505), a monk of the Congregazione Benedettina di Monte Oliveto, as Abbate of S. Gregorio Magno al Celio and Precettore of the Arcispedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia. Arcangelo di Giovanni Tuti (d. 1524), a professor of medicine and logic successively in Siena (1472–1499), Perugia (1500–ca 1505), and at La Sapienza, was appointed in October 1503 medicus to Pius III; he afterwards served Julius II, and became personal physician (Archiatra pontificio) to Leo X. Arcangelo lived in the Borgo opposite the palazzo of Cardinal Adriano Castellesi, and also, until about 1516, in a suburban residence (Vinea sub Monte Mario), where on 25 June 1508 he entertained on behalf of Julius II three ambassadors of the King of Spain. As a Procurator of Siena, he assisted Leo X in 1516 during negotiations between the city, the papacy, and Lorenzo de’ Medici.
Arcangelo Tuti was both a resident of Rome and a learned man, however he died in 1524, too early to have commissioned the bindings on all these books, although it is conceivable that Arcangelo acquired some, and that they were rebound by a member of the family with a passion for displaying the family insignia. Arcangelo’s son, Niccolò, married in 1513 Cassandra Ugurgieri, daughter of a prominent Sienese patrician. Their son, Marcello, married in 1536 Giustina, daughter of Giovanni Battista Piccolomini, sister of Alessandro and Francesco Maria, successively bishops of Pienza (1535–1599) and Montalcino 1528–1599), and cousin of the humanist Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579).
The initials ISP (or IPS?) which accompany the Tuti arms on the upper cover of the Boccaccio might signify an owner (Iulius? Senensis?). The 1515 Aristophanes, in addition to the two and a half pages of manuscript, in Greek on its endleaves, is reported to have the initials “IS[Pi]?” on folios F6 recto and g6 recto (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Antiq.f.I.1515.1. [OPAC]). A Giulio Tuti, of uncertain relation to Arcangelo, was born about 1500, appointed on 22 February 1521 Canonico of San Pietro, and in May 1521 to the high-ranking and lucrative post of Cubicularius in the papal household. He was a founder-member in 1525 of the patrician literary society established at Siena, the Accademia degli Intronati. In 1535, Giulio commissioned from the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi the Villa Montosoli; he died before April of the following year. The three bindings studied by Hobson were assigned to different Roman shops. Hobson compared the binding on the 1515 Aldine Lucretius to two others bound in Rome, one commissioned by “F.T.” (Fernando Torres, 1521–1590; see lot 8 in this catalogue) sometime after 1542, the other bound at uncertain date for an unidentified “A. Mileti.” Comparing tools, Hobson assigned the binding on the 1515 Giunta Aristophanes to a shop designated by Ilse Schunke the “Filareto Meister,” and by Hobson as Grimaldi’s “Binder C” (Niccolò Franzese). Niccolò is recorded in Rome in the census 1527 and in the Vatican account books from 1537 until his death in 1570–1571. The last of the three bindings listed by Hobson, covering the 1502 Aldine Sophocles and 1518 Aldine Aeschylus, is stamped in gilt with an arabesque panel, in the center of which is placed a shield bearing the Tuti arms. The same panel is used on the 1522 Aldine Plautus, however its larger format—quarto, whereas the Sophocles and Aeschylus are octavos—required the binder to border the panel with a frame of stylized leaf ornament. This panel was widely used in Rome in the 1530s, notably on five bindings for a collector whose initials are G.A.C., and on a binding for an anonymous owner.
List of Bindings with the Arms of the Tuti Family of Siena
(1) Aristophanes, Aristophanis Comoediae nouem. Plutus. Nebulae. Ranae. Equites. Acharnes. Vespae. Aues. Pax. Contionantes (Florence: Filippo Giunta, September 1515). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — unidentified owner(s), “Initials ‘IS[Pi]’? on F6 recto, and g6 recto (second work)”, “Two and a half pages of manuscript at end (more lines of a play, in Greek, in an early hand)” (Bodleian OPAC) — Marco Lazzari, inkstamp — Robert Finch, exlibris — Oxford, Bodleian Library, Antiq.f.I.1515.1.Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no. 2.
(2) Giovanni Boccaccio, Laberinto d’amore (Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, December 1529) [and 3 other works]. Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). The volume offered here.
(3) Titus Lucretius Carus, De reum natura (Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1515). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Lawrence Feinberg, New York; their Catalogue 5: Rare and important books and Mss including the newly discovered book of secrets of the Jesuati (New York 1980), item 39 ($1600; “Of further interest are its eight fly leaves and two pastedowns which seem to be Aldine paper, quite indistinguishable from that used for the book itself.”).Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no.1 & Pl. 3.
(4) Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro De rep. eruditissima explanatio (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, April 1528). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Bibliotheca Brookeriana (to be offered in a future sale).
(5) Titus Maccius Plautus, Ex Plauti comoediis XX quarum carmina magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, July 1522). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Thomas Fontaine, inscription — Thomas Crofts (1722-1781); Samuel Paterson, Bibliotheca Croftsiana: a catalogue of the curious and distinguished library of the late Reverend and learned Thomas Crofts, London, 7 April-27 May 1783, lot 2194 — Stephen Weston (1747-1830); Sotheby & Son, Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., London, 7-11 May 1830, lot 936 — Bernard Quaritch, London; their Catalogue 166: Examples of the art of book-binding (London 1897), item 339 — J. & J. Leighton, London; their Early printed books arranged by presses (London [1916?]), item 1097 & Pl. 122 (£22); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of the third portion of the famous stock of the late Mr. W. J. Leighton (who traded as Messrs. J. & J. Leighton), of 40 Brewer Street, Golden Square, W. (sold by order of the Executor), London, 27-30 October 1919, lot 1999 — Maggs Bros, London - bought in sale (£9 5s) — Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969) — Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Stamp. De Marinis.70 (digital image via BAV OPAC).De Marinis, op. cit., no. 2328.
(6) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1517). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris; Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. G. Gancia composée en partie de livres de la première Bibliothèque du Cardinal Mazarin et d’Ouvrages précieux, Paris, 27 April-2 May 1868, lot 665 — Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale (1822-1897) - bought in sale (FF 100) — Chantilly, Bibliothèque et les Archives, XXII-BIS-B-006.Léopold Delisle, Chantilly. Le Cabinet des livres. Imprimés antérieurs au milieu du XVIe siècle (Paris 1905), no. 1787; De Marinis, op. cit., no. 2327.
(7) Sophocles, Sophocleous Tragodiai hepta metexegeseon. Sophoclis Tragaediae septem cum commentariis (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, August 1502), bound with: Aeschylus, Aeschyli tragoediae sex (Venice: Heirs of Also Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, February 1518). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Altemps, family library, inscription “Ex Bibliotheca Altempsiana” — Arthur Kay, exlibris; Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of a selected portion of the extensive and valuable library the property of Arthur Kay, Esq., H.R.S.A., 11, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, London, 26-29 May 1930, lot 646B — E.P. Goldschmidt, London - bought in sale (£37); their Catalogue 24: Woodcut books, classics, bibliography (London [1930]), item 167 & Pl. 8 (£85) — Lucius Wilmerding (1880-1949); Parke Bernet Galleries, Rare XV-XIX century continental literature … Part III of the important library belonging to the estate of the late Lucius Wilmerding, New York, 29-31 October 1951, lot 861 — Henry Davis (1897-1977) — London, British Library, Henry Davis Gift 739.Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no. 3; Foot, op. cit., no. 292 (as Rome or possibly Bologna, disagrees with Hobson, who believes the binding was decorated by a panel: “the design appears to have been built up with single tools”).
4 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 101 mm). (I) Italic type, 29 lines. collation: A–I8: 72 leaves. Title within woodcut architectonic border, woodcut vignette on I8v, initial spaces. (II) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a–o8: 112 leaves (o8 blank). Title within ornamental woodcut border, one woodcut criblé initial, woodcut vignette on o7r. (III) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A–M8: 96 leaves (M8 blank). Title within historiated woodcut frame, one large woodcut initial, woodcut vignette on M7v. (IV) collation: Italic type, 24 lines. A–P8 (-P8): 119 (of 120) leaves (lacking blank P8). Title-page printed in red and back, with a woodcut portrait of Boccaccio, woodcut vignette on P7v. (A little marginal staining and finger-soiling throughout, first title-page trimmed at fore-edge and with a tiny marginal chip.)
binding: Very near contemporary Italian brown goatskin (157 x 106 mm), central gilt arms of the Tuti family on both covers, accompanied on upper cover by gilt initials ISP (or IPS?), surrounded by interlaced strapwork, forming an outer frame and inner cartouche, gilt bud and leaves at outer corners, traces of 4 pairs of green fabric ties, spine with 3 full and 4 half bands, compartments undecorated, edges gilt and gauffered. (Quite rubbed, joints cracked.)
provenance: A member of the Tuti family of Siena, possibly Marcello (armorial supralibros, accompanied by initials ISP [or IPS?] on upper cover) — Abate Giovanni Pagni (fl. 1821–1829; oval black armorial ink-stamp “Bibliotheca Pagni” on A2r, Bragaglia T95) — Gian Giacomo Trivulzio di Musocco, 6th marchese (1774–1831; oval exlibris lettered “Bibliotheca Io. Iacopo Trivulti”) — Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805–1868; blue ink-stamp “Bibl. Gust. C. Galletti Flor.” on A2r) — Baron Horace de Landau (1824–1903; Fr. Roediger, Catalogue des livres manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de M. Horace de Landau [Florence 1885–1890], I, pp.86–90) — Carlo Alberto Chiesa, Milan. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, 2015.
references: (I) Edit16 6280; USTC 814749 (II) Edit16 6266; USTC 814780 (III) Edit16 6260; USTC 814742 (IV) Edit16 6284; USTC 814800; cf. for the binding and other books with the Tuti coat of arms: De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, no. 2329; A. Hobson, “Some Sixteenth-century Buyers of Books,” pp. 71–72; A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library (Amsterdam, 1975), pp. 67–69; A. Hobson, “Bookbinding in Bologna” in Schede umanistiche, n.s., 1 (1998), pp. 147–175 (p. 174); Schunke, “Die vier Meister der Farnese-Plaketteneinbände,” in La Bibliofilía 54 (1952), pp. 57–91 (pp. 60–64).
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Laberinto d’amore di m. Giouanni Boccaccio. Con vna epistola confortatoria a messer Pino di Rossi del medesimo auttore. Nouamente corretto. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, December 1529. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Fiammetta amorosa de m. Giouanno Boccaccio ricorretta di nuouo. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, March 1525. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Ameto ouer comedia delle nimphe fiorentine compilata da Messer Giouanni Boccacci da Certaldo cittadino di Firenze. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino & Vincenzo di Paolo, 20 December 1524. Bound with:
Boccaccio, Amorosa visione di m. Giouan. Boccaccio, nuouamente ritrouata, nella quale si contengono cinque triumphi, cioe. Triumpho di sapientia, di gloria, di ricchezza, di amore, e di fortuna. Apologia di Gieronimo Claricio immol. contro detrattori della poesia del Boccaccio. Osseruationi di uolgar grammatica del Boccaccio. Venice: Niccolò Zoppino, 1531
Seven bindings are now recorded with the coat of arms of the Tuti family of Siena on their covers. Six cover works of ancient writers, all but one in Aldine editions. These texts evidently were acquired for study, as two (Aristophanes and Lucretius) were bound with additional endleaves for notes. The present volume, gathering four works of Boccaccio, in Italian, published 1524–1531, presumably was bought for recreation.
In 1985, Anthony Hobson knew of three volumes (Aristophanes, Lucretius, Sophocles), which he localized to Rome. Judging from general features, he supposed each was made in a different Roman shop, and that the three bindings “date from the 1540s.” Hobson did not discover who bought the books and had them bound, but speculated that the owner was a learned man, from the serious texts, and because he had entered into one several pages of Greek in “an accomplished hand” (“Some Sixteenth-century Buyers of Books in Rome and Elsewhere,” in Humanistica Lovaniensia 34a [1985], pp. 65–75). Hobson was unaware that Tammaro De Marinis had recorded three other volumes with the same coat of arms as Venetian bindings: Boccaccio, Plautus, Seneca (La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, nos. 2327–2329). The Boccaccio and another binding, unknown to both Hobson and De Marinis (on the 1528 Aldine Macrobius), are in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana.
The Tuti were a noble family, originally of Roccalbegna (Grosetto), arrived in Siena by the middle of the fifteenth century. The family palace was in Terzo San Martino in the Via Pantaneto, directly behind the Logge del Papa. A strong family association with the papacy is evidenced by a large escutcheon on the façade of the palace, bearing the arms of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) flanked by shields bearing the Tuti family arms: D’azzurro al bastone nodoso posto in banda accompagnato da quattro foglie disposte in cinta, il tutto d’oro. In 1462, Pius II appointed a Francesco Tuti as Podestà di Viterbo. Alexander VI in 1497 named Benedetto di Giovanni Tuti (Benedictus de Senis; d. 1505), a monk of the Congregazione Benedettina di Monte Oliveto, as Abbate of S. Gregorio Magno al Celio and Precettore of the Arcispedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia. Arcangelo di Giovanni Tuti (d. 1524), a professor of medicine and logic successively in Siena (1472–1499), Perugia (1500–ca 1505), and at La Sapienza, was appointed in October 1503 medicus to Pius III; he afterwards served Julius II, and became personal physician (Archiatra pontificio) to Leo X. Arcangelo lived in the Borgo opposite the palazzo of Cardinal Adriano Castellesi, and also, until about 1516, in a suburban residence (Vinea sub Monte Mario), where on 25 June 1508 he entertained on behalf of Julius II three ambassadors of the King of Spain. As a Procurator of Siena, he assisted Leo X in 1516 during negotiations between the city, the papacy, and Lorenzo de’ Medici.
Arcangelo Tuti was both a resident of Rome and a learned man, however he died in 1524, too early to have commissioned the bindings on all these books, although it is conceivable that Arcangelo acquired some, and that they were rebound by a member of the family with a passion for displaying the family insignia. Arcangelo’s son, Niccolò, married in 1513 Cassandra Ugurgieri, daughter of a prominent Sienese patrician. Their son, Marcello, married in 1536 Giustina, daughter of Giovanni Battista Piccolomini, sister of Alessandro and Francesco Maria, successively bishops of Pienza (1535–1599) and Montalcino 1528–1599), and cousin of the humanist Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1579).
The initials ISP (or IPS?) which accompany the Tuti arms on the upper cover of the Boccaccio might signify an owner (Iulius? Senensis?). The 1515 Aristophanes, in addition to the two and a half pages of manuscript, in Greek on its endleaves, is reported to have the initials “IS[Pi]?” on folios F6 recto and g6 recto (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Antiq.f.I.1515.1. [OPAC]). A Giulio Tuti, of uncertain relation to Arcangelo, was born about 1500, appointed on 22 February 1521 Canonico of San Pietro, and in May 1521 to the high-ranking and lucrative post of Cubicularius in the papal household. He was a founder-member in 1525 of the patrician literary society established at Siena, the Accademia degli Intronati. In 1535, Giulio commissioned from the architect Baldassarre Peruzzi the Villa Montosoli; he died before April of the following year. The three bindings studied by Hobson were assigned to different Roman shops. Hobson compared the binding on the 1515 Aldine Lucretius to two others bound in Rome, one commissioned by “F.T.” (Fernando Torres, 1521–1590; see lot 8 in this catalogue) sometime after 1542, the other bound at uncertain date for an unidentified “A. Mileti.” Comparing tools, Hobson assigned the binding on the 1515 Giunta Aristophanes to a shop designated by Ilse Schunke the “Filareto Meister,” and by Hobson as Grimaldi’s “Binder C” (Niccolò Franzese). Niccolò is recorded in Rome in the census 1527 and in the Vatican account books from 1537 until his death in 1570–1571. The last of the three bindings listed by Hobson, covering the 1502 Aldine Sophocles and 1518 Aldine Aeschylus, is stamped in gilt with an arabesque panel, in the center of which is placed a shield bearing the Tuti arms. The same panel is used on the 1522 Aldine Plautus, however its larger format—quarto, whereas the Sophocles and Aeschylus are octavos—required the binder to border the panel with a frame of stylized leaf ornament. This panel was widely used in Rome in the 1530s, notably on five bindings for a collector whose initials are G.A.C., and on a binding for an anonymous owner.
List of Bindings with the Arms of the Tuti Family of Siena
(1) Aristophanes, Aristophanis Comoediae nouem. Plutus. Nebulae. Ranae. Equites. Acharnes. Vespae. Aues. Pax. Contionantes (Florence: Filippo Giunta, September 1515). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — unidentified owner(s), “Initials ‘IS[Pi]’? on F6 recto, and g6 recto (second work)”, “Two and a half pages of manuscript at end (more lines of a play, in Greek, in an early hand)” (Bodleian OPAC) — Marco Lazzari, inkstamp — Robert Finch, exlibris — Oxford, Bodleian Library, Antiq.f.I.1515.1.Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no. 2.
(2) Giovanni Boccaccio, Laberinto d’amore (Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini, December 1529) [and 3 other works]. Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). The volume offered here.
(3) Titus Lucretius Carus, De reum natura (Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, January 1515). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Lawrence Feinberg, New York; their Catalogue 5: Rare and important books and Mss including the newly discovered book of secrets of the Jesuati (New York 1980), item 39 ($1600; “Of further interest are its eight fly leaves and two pastedowns which seem to be Aldine paper, quite indistinguishable from that used for the book itself.”).Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no.1 & Pl. 3.
(4) Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis VI libro De rep. eruditissima explanatio (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, April 1528). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Bibliotheca Brookeriana (to be offered in a future sale).
(5) Titus Maccius Plautus, Ex Plauti comoediis XX quarum carmina magna ex parte in mensum suum restituta sunt (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, July 1522). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Thomas Fontaine, inscription — Thomas Crofts (1722-1781); Samuel Paterson, Bibliotheca Croftsiana: a catalogue of the curious and distinguished library of the late Reverend and learned Thomas Crofts, London, 7 April-27 May 1783, lot 2194 — Stephen Weston (1747-1830); Sotheby & Son, Catalogue of the remaining portion of the library of the late Rev. Stephen Weston, B.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., London, 7-11 May 1830, lot 936 — Bernard Quaritch, London; their Catalogue 166: Examples of the art of book-binding (London 1897), item 339 — J. & J. Leighton, London; their Early printed books arranged by presses (London [1916?]), item 1097 & Pl. 122 (£22); Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of the third portion of the famous stock of the late Mr. W. J. Leighton (who traded as Messrs. J. & J. Leighton), of 40 Brewer Street, Golden Square, W. (sold by order of the Executor), London, 27-30 October 1919, lot 1999 — Maggs Bros, London - bought in sale (£9 5s) — Tammaro De Marinis (1878-1969) — Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Stamp. De Marinis.70 (digital image via BAV OPAC).De Marinis, op. cit., no. 2328.
(6) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, October 1517). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Giovanni Gancia, Brighton & Paris; Delbergue-Cormont & Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. G. Gancia composée en partie de livres de la première Bibliothèque du Cardinal Mazarin et d’Ouvrages précieux, Paris, 27 April-2 May 1868, lot 665 — Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale (1822-1897) - bought in sale (FF 100) — Chantilly, Bibliothèque et les Archives, XXII-BIS-B-006.Léopold Delisle, Chantilly. Le Cabinet des livres. Imprimés antérieurs au milieu du XVIe siècle (Paris 1905), no. 1787; De Marinis, op. cit., no. 2327.
(7) Sophocles, Sophocleous Tragodiai hepta metexegeseon. Sophoclis Tragaediae septem cum commentariis (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, August 1502), bound with: Aeschylus, Aeschyli tragoediae sex (Venice: Heirs of Also Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, February 1518). Bound for a member of the Tuti family of Siena (armorial supralibros). — Altemps, family library, inscription “Ex Bibliotheca Altempsiana” — Arthur Kay, exlibris; Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of a selected portion of the extensive and valuable library the property of Arthur Kay, Esq., H.R.S.A., 11, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, London, 26-29 May 1930, lot 646B — E.P. Goldschmidt, London - bought in sale (£37); their Catalogue 24: Woodcut books, classics, bibliography (London [1930]), item 167 & Pl. 8 (£85) — Lucius Wilmerding (1880-1949); Parke Bernet Galleries, Rare XV-XIX century continental literature … Part III of the important library belonging to the estate of the late Lucius Wilmerding, New York, 29-31 October 1951, lot 861 — Henry Davis (1897-1977) — London, British Library, Henry Davis Gift 739.Hobson, op. cit., p.71 no. 3; Foot, op. cit., no. 292 (as Rome or possibly Bologna, disagrees with Hobson, who believes the binding was decorated by a panel: “the design appears to have been built up with single tools”).
4 works in one volume, 8vo (152 x 101 mm). (I) Italic type, 29 lines. collation: A–I8: 72 leaves. Title within woodcut architectonic border, woodcut vignette on I8v, initial spaces. (II) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: a–o8: 112 leaves (o8 blank). Title within ornamental woodcut border, one woodcut criblé initial, woodcut vignette on o7r. (III) Italic type, 29 lines plus headline. collation: A–M8: 96 leaves (M8 blank). Title within historiated woodcut frame, one large woodcut initial, woodcut vignette on M7v. (IV) collation: Italic type, 24 lines. A–P8 (-P8): 119 (of 120) leaves (lacking blank P8). Title-page printed in red and back, with a woodcut portrait of Boccaccio, woodcut vignette on P7v. (A little marginal staining and finger-soiling throughout, first title-page trimmed at fore-edge and with a tiny marginal chip.)
binding: Very near contemporary Italian brown goatskin (157 x 106 mm), central gilt arms of the Tuti family on both covers, accompanied on upper cover by gilt initials ISP (or IPS?), surrounded by interlaced strapwork, forming an outer frame and inner cartouche, gilt bud and leaves at outer corners, traces of 4 pairs of green fabric ties, spine with 3 full and 4 half bands, compartments undecorated, edges gilt and gauffered. (Quite rubbed, joints cracked.)
provenance: A member of the Tuti family of Siena, possibly Marcello (armorial supralibros, accompanied by initials ISP [or IPS?] on upper cover) — Abate Giovanni Pagni (fl. 1821–1829; oval black armorial ink-stamp “Bibliotheca Pagni” on A2r, Bragaglia T95) — Gian Giacomo Trivulzio di Musocco, 6th marchese (1774–1831; oval exlibris lettered “Bibliotheca Io. Iacopo Trivulti”) — Gustavo Camillo Galletti (1805–1868; blue ink-stamp “Bibl. Gust. C. Galletti Flor.” on A2r) — Baron Horace de Landau (1824–1903; Fr. Roediger, Catalogue des livres manuscrits et imprimés composant la bibliothèque de M. Horace de Landau [Florence 1885–1890], I, pp.86–90) — Carlo Alberto Chiesa, Milan. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Lardanchet, Paris, 2015.
references: (I) Edit16 6280; USTC 814749 (II) Edit16 6266; USTC 814780 (III) Edit16 6260; USTC 814742 (IV) Edit16 6284; USTC 814800; cf. for the binding and other books with the Tuti coat of arms: De Marinis, La Legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, no. 2329; A. Hobson, “Some Sixteenth-century Buyers of Books,” pp. 71–72; A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus: An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library (Amsterdam, 1975), pp. 67–69; A. Hobson, “Bookbinding in Bologna” in Schede umanistiche, n.s., 1 (1998), pp. 147–175 (p. 174); Schunke, “Die vier Meister der Farnese-Plaketteneinbände,” in La Bibliofilía 54 (1952), pp. 57–91 (pp. 60–64).
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