Stephani Doleti Dialogus, de imitatione Ciceronia, aduersus Desiderium Erasmum Roterodamum, pro Christophoro Longolio.
Etienne Dolet (1509-1546)
Category
Books
Date
1535
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3029802
Summary
Bibliographic description
Running number: 5289. Each page ruled in red. Capital strokes supplied in red (faded to brown) throughout. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Three separate manuscript inscriptions all in the same sixteenth-century hand on title page, all in very faint red ink (faded to brown): 1. Two or three words, illegible. 2. "Johannes M...[rest of name and other word illegible]. 3. "Virtute duce comite fortunae Tixier" -- the motto of the printer of this book, Sébastien Gryphius, was "Virtute duce comite fortunae". Gryphius also employed the author of this book Etienne Dolet as a proofreader in his printing office. Manuscript inscription in same sixteenth-century hand on title page verso: "Quisquis in hunc librum furtiuos [illegible]erit Vngues, / Protinus hic Stigias sit petiturus aquas Textor". Manuscript Latin mottos in same sixteenth-century hand on the woodcut initials, on a2r: "Virtutis studii primu[m] feutur[?] amaror, ac fructus dulces"; on b1r: "Audiens sapiens sapientior erit et Vir prude[n]s gub[er]nacula possidebit"; on b2r: "In Vino V[er]itas". Manuscript inscriptions in same sixteenth-century hand on p. 196 and on B4 verso, all in faded red ink, including on B4v: "Liber cuilibet / Segulam sum Textoris iure Volumeis, Qui summi regis lilia triua colit." and "Jesuis a Iehan Tixier et a ses amis"[?]. The name Textor/Tixier is presumably either a reference to the French humanist scholar Joannes Ravisius Textor (ca. 1480-1524) or to someone else with the same name. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; gilt double and single fillet border, with small gilt cornerpiece stamps; gilt floral roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine with floral stamps, and with gilt title label. Red edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Etienne Dolet (1509-1546)