![ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). Modus orandi deum. Opus per ipsum autorem diligenter et recognitum et locupletatum. Basel: Johan Froben, March 1525. [Bound with]: ERASMUS. Detectio praestigiarum cuiusdam libelli germanice scripti, ficto autoris titulo, cum hac inscriptione, Erasmi et Lutheri opiniones de Coena domini. [Basel: Johan Froben, June 1526]. [and]: ERASMUS. Lingua. Opus nouum, et hisce temporibus aptissimum. [Basel: Johan Froben, August 1525].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2000/CKS/2000_CKS_06298_0092_000(011250).jpg?w=1)
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ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). Modus orandi deum. Opus per ipsum autorem diligenter et recognitum et locupletatum. Basel: Johan Froben, March 1525. [Bound with]: ERASMUS. Detectio praestigiarum cuiusdam libelli germanice scripti, ficto autoris titulo, cum hac inscriptione, Erasmi et Lutheri opiniones de Coena domini. [Basel: Johan Froben, June 1526]. [and]: ERASMUS. Lingua. Opus nouum, et hisce temporibus aptissimum. [Basel: Johan Froben, August 1525].
3 works in one volume, 8° (166 x 109mm). Froben's woodcut device on title and final leaf of each work. (a8v and b1r of the first work with heavy staining at margins, block split leaving quires c-d of the second work detached, b4 of the same work with ink stain at lower corner, some waterstaining and light marginal soiling throughout.) CONTEMPORARY PANEL-STAMPED BROWN CALF OVER PASTEBOARD BY JEHAN NORVINS OF PARIS, the panel (99 x 64mm.) containing two opposed rows of acorns with a flower at the top of each, the binder's name in an oblong space below, the surrounding border filled with branching flowers and acorns, a wyvern at each side and artichcoke at corners, the spine originally in five compartments (but now lacking the top and bottom section, some creases in covers, corners bumped, ties lacking), pastedowns of two manuscipt leaves on vellum from a French-Latin dictionary, possibly 14th century. Provenace: Cornelius Waghemanns, Hooch Straat (two later 16th-century inscriptions on front blank, one with a pious exhortation); two other Latin inscriptions on the same leaf, one giving Erasmus's dates of birth and death, the other three reasons why prayers may not be answered; some textual annotations, possibly by Waghemanns; short contemporary inscription in German on title to the second work; John Jebb, Dublin, 1823 (inscriptions on front blank and rear endpaper).
EARLY PRINTINGS OF THREE TRACTS BY ERASMUS IN A CONTEMPORARY PANEL BINDING SIGNED BY NORVINS. Modus orandi deum was first issued by Froben in 1524. FIRST EDITION of Detectio praestigiarum cuiusdam libelli, a reply to Leo Juda's anonymous Des hochgelerten Erasmi von Roterdam, vnnd Doctor Martin Luthers maynung, von Nachtmal vnnsers herren Ihesu Christi, published in April 1526. FIRST EDITION of Lingua according to the most modern edition in Collected Works, vol. XXIX, p. 253, although Graesse II, p. 496, observes that Froben issued two editions of Lingua in 1525. The binding panel is identical to that reproduced in Gruel Manuel de l'amateur de reliures I, p. 137, and to no. 131 in E. Ph. Goldschmidt Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, the former being on a 1529 edition of Pliny's epistles by R. Estienne, and the latter on two works, one issued in Leipzig, 1539, the other in Basel, 1538. Gruel, who reads the binder's name as 'Norins', comments: 'Cette décoration sans être de celles qu'on peut qualifier de remarquables, est d'une jolie composition; elle a de plus une particularité qui la rend intéressante.' As panels with acorn cresting were so frequently used on early bindings, it is unlikely that Norvins himself was the originator of this design. However, Goldschmidt points out that signed variants are very rare, the present example being one of only two known to him. This binding is also historically important since Goldschmidt knew of no imprint earlier than 1529 on a Norvins acorn binding. The pastedowns give the French renderings of Latin words beginning with 't' and 'v', including 'tribuere -- doner' and 'vehiculum -- voiture.' Adams E624; Bezzel I Erasmusdrucke, 702 (2nd work).
3 works in one volume, 8° (166 x 109mm). Froben's woodcut device on title and final leaf of each work. (a8v and b1r of the first work with heavy staining at margins, block split leaving quires c-d of the second work detached, b4 of the same work with ink stain at lower corner, some waterstaining and light marginal soiling throughout.) CONTEMPORARY PANEL-STAMPED BROWN CALF OVER PASTEBOARD BY JEHAN NORVINS OF PARIS, the panel (99 x 64mm.) containing two opposed rows of acorns with a flower at the top of each, the binder's name in an oblong space below, the surrounding border filled with branching flowers and acorns, a wyvern at each side and artichcoke at corners, the spine originally in five compartments (but now lacking the top and bottom section, some creases in covers, corners bumped, ties lacking), pastedowns of two manuscipt leaves on vellum from a French-Latin dictionary, possibly 14th century. Provenace: Cornelius Waghemanns, Hooch Straat (two later 16th-century inscriptions on front blank, one with a pious exhortation); two other Latin inscriptions on the same leaf, one giving Erasmus's dates of birth and death, the other three reasons why prayers may not be answered; some textual annotations, possibly by Waghemanns; short contemporary inscription in German on title to the second work; John Jebb, Dublin, 1823 (inscriptions on front blank and rear endpaper).
EARLY PRINTINGS OF THREE TRACTS BY ERASMUS IN A CONTEMPORARY PANEL BINDING SIGNED BY NORVINS. Modus orandi deum was first issued by Froben in 1524. FIRST EDITION of Detectio praestigiarum cuiusdam libelli, a reply to Leo Juda's anonymous Des hochgelerten Erasmi von Roterdam, vnnd Doctor Martin Luthers maynung, von Nachtmal vnnsers herren Ihesu Christi, published in April 1526. FIRST EDITION of Lingua according to the most modern edition in Collected Works, vol. XXIX, p. 253, although Graesse II, p. 496, observes that Froben issued two editions of Lingua in 1525. The binding panel is identical to that reproduced in Gruel Manuel de l'amateur de reliures I, p. 137, and to no. 131 in E. Ph. Goldschmidt Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, the former being on a 1529 edition of Pliny's epistles by R. Estienne, and the latter on two works, one issued in Leipzig, 1539, the other in Basel, 1538. Gruel, who reads the binder's name as 'Norins', comments: 'Cette décoration sans être de celles qu'on peut qualifier de remarquables, est d'une jolie composition; elle a de plus une particularité qui la rend intéressante.' As panels with acorn cresting were so frequently used on early bindings, it is unlikely that Norvins himself was the originator of this design. However, Goldschmidt points out that signed variants are very rare, the present example being one of only two known to him. This binding is also historically important since Goldschmidt knew of no imprint earlier than 1529 on a Norvins acorn binding. The pastedowns give the French renderings of Latin words beginning with 't' and 'v', including 'tribuere -- doner' and 'vehiculum -- voiture.' Adams E624; Bezzel I Erasmusdrucke, 702 (2nd work).
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