Dominic Winter Auctions
Lot 534
[Manzolli, Pietro Angelo]. Marcelli Palingenii Stellati poetae doctissimi Zodiacus vitae, hoc est, de hominis vita, studio, ac moribus optime instituendis libri XII, Basel: Nikolaus Brylinger heirs, 1566, bound after: Hesiod, Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia Graece, cum interpretatione Latina eregione, Basel: Paul Queck, [1564], 2 works in 1 volume, Manzolli signatures a-z8 A-B8 C5, Hesiod signatures as in Adams but lacking 6 preliminary leaves (alpha 2-7), toning, occasional light soiling, early marginalia and underlining in black ink, contemporary pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, manuscript spine-title, date in a later hand to foot, covers decoratively blind-stamped with bust portrait of Martin Luther to front and Philip Melanchthon to rear, each after Lucas Cranach the Younger, 3 lines of verse below each portrait, decorative outer roll to each cover including profile portraits of Erasmus and others, rubbed and soiled overall, wear to extremities, retaining one metal clasp only, 8vo (16 x 10.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Joachim Freybergk, ownership inscription dated 1568 to front free endpaper. 2) 'Dr S. Clarke', with lengthy bibliographical annotation on Manzolli to terminal blank of Hesiod, in a 19th-century hand. 3) Brian S. Donaghey (1940-2015), Australian medievalist and professor at the University of Sheffield, with book-label. Adams H474 (Hesiod); VD16 M 858 (Manzolli) & H 2685 (Hesiod). The binding is unsigned but the use of opposing blind-stamped portraits of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon recalls the work of known Wittenberg binders including Thomas Krüger, Severin Rötter and Nikolaus Müller (see British Library shelfmarks Davis 692 and c46d18).
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