Lot n° 46
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- Lot 46
NEW TESTAMENT - IN THE BINDING OF THE WORKSHOPS OF CAUMARTIN
Της Καινης Διαθηκης ἁπαντα. Novum Testamentum. Ex bibliotheca regia.
Paris, Robert Estienne, 1549.
2 vols in-16, full olive morocco with arms, boards decorated with compartments enriched with small filigree irons. To note a pair of small head irons (profile with frontal wick), repeated on each plate. Spine decorated with geometric and starred boxes. Ornate cuts. Interior scroll. Volume 1 : 408 pp. Volume 2 : in continuous pagination, pp. 409-528. Epistles: 1- 361, [3] pp.
Second edition of the Greek New Testament by Robert Estienne, known as the O mirificam edition: it is with these words, indeed, that the preface begins. Rarer and more sought after than the first, according to Renouard, it is entirely printed with the Greek characters specially engraved by Claude Garamont for the Estienne. Basilisk mark of Robert Estienne on the titles and olive tree mark at the end of the second volume. Elegant bands and initials. The first volume contains the Gospels, the second the Pauline Epistles, the Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse.
Bound with the arms and bookplate of one of the members of the family of the Lords of Caumartin, Louis-Urbain Lefèvre (1653-1720).
The boards are very close to the boards of the binding of La plaisante et joyeuse histoyre du grand Geant Gargantua [...] (Lyon, Étienne Dolet, 1524.), preserved at the BnF. The BnF Binding Project platform writes about them: "Binding executed in Paris between 1690 and 1700 approximately by the Caumartin workshop. The attribution is based on the presence, in the gilding material, of irons characteristic of the production of this workshop, a pair of irons with a small head, in the form of a profile (right and left) with a frontal wick."
We can still read on the BnF binding portal: "[Conventionally referred to as the "Atelier des Caumartin" by Esmerian, according to a homogeneous set of bindings from the same workshop, with the arms of one of the members of the family of the lords of Caumartin, Louis-Urbain Lefèvre (1653-1720), the binding workshop we are interested in here is actually unidentified.] It was active around 1652, then from 1685 to 1701. Esmerian has proposed to distinguish two periods in the production of this workshop: around 1652, for a series of small format bindings, identifiable by the presence of an iron known as "à la petite tête" (type C of É. Dacier's classification); then from 1685 to 1701 approximately, for bindings combining larger irons with this initial material (except for the iron "à la petite tête"), mainly executed on works of the Semaine sainte. "
This is a remarkable binding from the first period that is presented here.
Esmerian 1972, appendix B: iron with a small head, type B. Renouard, p. 73, n°1 - Fabienne Le Bars http://reliures. bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cdt9xbvp/ -Caumartin http:// reliures.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cdt9x1dt9
La plaisante et joyeuse histoyre du grand Geant Gargantua suivi de Pantagruel..., BnF, Réserve des livres rares, RES-Y2-2144 and RES-Y2-2145
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