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JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (Saint, patriarch of Constantinople). In Sanctum Iesu Christi Evangelium secundum Matthaeum [Marcum, Lucam et Ioannem] commentarij. Translated from Greek into Latin by Anianus, Trapezuntius and Aretinus. Partly edited by Johannes Mahusius. Paris: Charlotte Guiard, 1543.
4 parts in 2 volumes, 8° (163 x 103mm). Roman type. Contemporary Bolognese russet morocco over pasteboard, decorated with small tools in gilt and blind to a fine Renaissance design, triple blind fillets, floral and leafy tools, blind arabesque borders, gilt cartouches containing gilt lettering: on front covers the author's name and titles, on back covers the original owner's intitials, spines with alternating double and single raised bands and original paper manuscript labels in top compartments, blue edges sprinkled in red and white, original endpapers, (ties removed, spines slightly faded, minor abrasion to back cover of one volume). Provenance: F.A.M.G. (lettering on back covers).
The complete Gospel commentaries of Chrysostom, issued by a prominent Parisian woman publisher, who was active during the years 1537-57. The extremely handsome pair of Italian Renaissance bindings is in entirely unsophisticated condition. The sheets travelled from Paris to Bologna, where the book was bound very soon after publication. The bindings share the large distinctive corner tool with a Bolognese binding reproduced by Tammaro de Marinis (Legatura Artistica II, 1320 and plate CCXXVII). The same Bolognese atelier produced a binding of strikingly similar design on another 1543 French imprint: see Gumuchian, Belles Reliures no. 63 (where it is described as Venetian) and plate XXIX, and De Marinis III, 3061 bis (not illustrated). The Gumuchian example and these bindings have one of the flower tools in common, an identical tool forms the cartouches, and in both cases the initials of the collectors, who commissioned them, are found on the back cover.
4 parts in 2 volumes, 8° (163 x 103mm). Roman type. Contemporary Bolognese russet morocco over pasteboard, decorated with small tools in gilt and blind to a fine Renaissance design, triple blind fillets, floral and leafy tools, blind arabesque borders, gilt cartouches containing gilt lettering: on front covers the author's name and titles, on back covers the original owner's intitials, spines with alternating double and single raised bands and original paper manuscript labels in top compartments, blue edges sprinkled in red and white, original endpapers, (ties removed, spines slightly faded, minor abrasion to back cover of one volume). Provenance: F.A.M.G. (lettering on back covers).
The complete Gospel commentaries of Chrysostom, issued by a prominent Parisian woman publisher, who was active during the years 1537-57. The extremely handsome pair of Italian Renaissance bindings is in entirely unsophisticated condition. The sheets travelled from Paris to Bologna, where the book was bound very soon after publication. The bindings share the large distinctive corner tool with a Bolognese binding reproduced by Tammaro de Marinis (Legatura Artistica II, 1320 and plate CCXXVII). The same Bolognese atelier produced a binding of strikingly similar design on another 1543 French imprint: see Gumuchian, Belles Reliures no. 63 (where it is described as Venetian) and plate XXIX, and De Marinis III, 3061 bis (not illustrated). The Gumuchian example and these bindings have one of the flower tools in common, an identical tool forms the cartouches, and in both cases the initials of the collectors, who commissioned them, are found on the back cover.