Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/636
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    178 Valerius Maximus [ Actorum & Factorum memorabilium libri IX | 8vo. Jacobus Mareschal. Lyons, 1519 Brown. Two panels. Three bands. | I. Panel. St. James of Compostella. In the centre stands the saint in along robe and his pilgrim’s hat surrounded by ahalo. Behind him isa tree. He stands at the foot of a mound covered with tufts of herbage on the top of which is a gibbet with the body of a man hanging from it, the feet resting on the outstretched right hand of the saint in whose left hand is the pilgrim’s staff and wallet. Above all is a crocketed and foliated arch. At the right hand side and bottom are borders formed of curves of foliage with stars in the curves. II. Panel. St. John Baptist. Below a crocketed and foliated arch the saint is standing clothed in his camel’s hair robe. He is ona mound covered with herbage and flowers and leans with his left arm . ona branch tied transversely between two upright branches. His right hand is partly raised, and he is addressing six persons, ranged three on either side. In the sky above are stars. On the right side and at. the bottom are borders. That on the right contains a straight branch entwined with foliage, the bottom one curves of foliage, with stars in the curves. . The front panel represents St. James of Compostella supporting with his hand the young man who had been hanged for theft and who was subsequently taken down alive and restored to his parents. This is the only example I have seen of this binding, and the only example of a panel depicting this miracle of St. James. ** [Upper half of back torn. The leather on the lower cover some- what defective, but the panel is only very slightly affected. In a padded case. | Not in Weale. [See ILLUSTRATION. | 179 Valerius Maximus” [Factorum Dictorumque memorabilium exempla | 8vo. J. Knobloch. Strassburg, 1524 Black calf. One panel. Four bands. Binder Martin Vulcanius Panel. Divided into a narrow centre panel and two other panels. The centre one is divided into four squares containing figures of I, a. hound, II, a hound, III, a boar, IV, a hound. The lower (or right hand) panel is divided into two halves, each containing a spiral of vine branch with leaves and grapes, containing four figures (right), I, an owl, II, a wyvern, III, an eagle, IV, a hound ; (left), I, a bird, II, a hound, III, a wyvern, IV,a hound Round all is the inscription, divided by quatrefoils : RARA - DAT + VR LOUGO - PRVDENT: + 1A’: TEMPOR+I1S VSV The top (or left hand) panel is divided and ornamented like the other, the figures in the spirals being (right), I, an owl, II, a squirrel, ITI, a hound, IV, a wyvern ; (left), I, an eagle, II, a hound, III, a hound, IV, aboar. Round this runs the inscription, divided at the corners by quatrefoils : DISCERE + UE « CE22K2 - CVRA: 2A + PIEMTIA © CR + EeCIT MTING : VVLCAM Io + ** [Rebacked and corners mended. In a padded case. | Not in Weale.
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