Oxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
: Douce 252.
ISTC No.ia00116000
AuthorAesopus
TitleVita, after Rinucius, et Fabulae, Lib. I-IV, prose version of Romulus [Latin and German] (Tr: Heinrich Steinhöwel). Add: Fabulae, Lib. I-III (the metrical version of Anonymus Neveleti, i.e. Aesopus Moralisatus)[Latin]. Fabulae extravagantes. Fabulae novae (Tr: Rinucius). Fabulae Aviani. Fabulae collectae [all Latin and German] (Tr: Heinrich Steinhöwel)
ImprintUlm : Johann Zainer, [about 1476-77]
Formatf°
Languageger
SubjectLiterature
Keywordstranslation
Periodclassical
Description of Copy
Copy Id00205350
Holding InstitutionOxford, Bodleian Library (GB)
ShelfmarkDouce 252.
NoteBodInc-Id: A-053(1)
Provenance
1480 -
1786
Areae-au
Time period1480 - 1786
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteProvenance: Vienna, Augustinian Canons Regular, S. Dorothea; fifteenth-century inscription on [p9v]: 'Liber hic est monasterij S dorothe virginis wienne'; see Dicke, Steinhöwels Esopus, 372 no. 10.
Provenance
1786 -
1815
Areae-uk
Time period1786 - 1815
Provenance nameSpencer, George John (1758-1834), 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758 - 1834 [Person; Former Owner] (Civil servant, Aristocracy) British Ambassador to Vienna, Whig Cabinet Minister; see DNB; Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors [pt III, Oct, 1892, by Michael Kerney]; de Ricci, English Collectors, 72-7; Anthony Lister, `George John, 2nd Earl Spencer and his `Librarian', Thomas Frognall Dibdin', in Bibliophily, ed. Robin Myers and Michael Harris, Publishing History Occasional Series, 2 (1986), 90-120; Clare A. Simmons, `George John Spencer, Second Earl Spencer (1758-1834)', in Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers, ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack, DLB 184 (Detroit, Washington DC, and London, 1997), 413-18; Spencer's books included the library of Count Reviczky, q.v., purchased in 1790, and that of the Duca di Cassano, q.v., purchased in 1819/20; some duplicates were sold at his anonymous sale: A Catalogue of the Duplicates of a Nobleman's Library consisting of Rare Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics of the 15th Century &c (London: Leigh and Sotheby, 20 Dec, [1798]; other duplicate sales were held in 1800 (26 May), 1802 (3 Apr.), 1804 (6 June), 1811 (16 May), 1815 (9 May), and 1823 (5 June); Cassano (and other) duplicates were subsequently sold at the following sales: A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Duplicates from the Library of the Rt. Hon. Earl Spencer, K. G. (London: Evans, 2 Mar. 1821); the Bodleian copy of this catalogue is fully annotated; Catalogue of a Portion of the Library of the Late Duke di Cassano Serra (London: Evans, 18 Dec. 1826): [includes some incunabula purchased by the Bodleian]; Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Library of the Rev. Daniel Lysons, The Duke of Cassano (London: Evans: 17 Mar. 1828); some volumes have the coat of arms of Spencer and his countess, Lavinia Bingham (Spencer, impaling Bingham quartered with Turberville), stamped in gilt on both covers, and the motto, `Dieu defend le droit': this is illustrated in Davenport 354-5, but incorrectly described there as being Bingham quartered with Smith; a second stamp (not in Davenport), bearing Spencer's own arms alone, surrounded by the Garter and surmounted by an earl's coronet, is occasionally found (for example, on P-375); accession numbers, from 1 to above 20,000, were inscribed in ink on the verso of the upper cover of the binding or of the front endleaf, in the upper left-hand corner: see de Ricci 77; these numbers are often cancelled and followed by the letter `D' or `d', presumably for 'duplicate'; in some cases a `duplum' symbol was used instead, and seems occasionally to appear on its own, without the accession number; for Spencer books now at John Rylands University Library, Manchester, see Anthony Lister, `The Althorp Library of Second Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: its Formation and Growth', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 71 (1989), 67-86; also P. H. Reid, `The Finest Private Library in Europe: a Brief Study of the Bibliophile Spencers of Althrop', Library History, 14 (1998), 65-71.
NoteGeorge John, second Earl Spencer (1758-1834); note on the endleaf in the hand of Francis Douce: see Dibdin, Spencer, I 239, no. 107. Therefore acquired after the publication of Dibdin's catalogue in 1814-15
Provenance
1815 -
1834
Areae-uk-en
Time period1815 - 1834
Provenance nameDouce, Francis , 1757 - 1834 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, No characterisation/lay) Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, bequeathed his collection to the Bodleian Library; see Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce to the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1840); Macray 326; Craster 15-16; `Francis Douce 1757-1834', BQR 7 (1934), 359-84; Munby, Connoisseurs, esp. 35-56; David Rogers, `Francis Douce's Manuscripts: Some Hitherto Unrecognized Provenances', in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard (Oxford, 1975), 315-40; Douce Legacy; P. R. Harris, A History of the British Museum Library 1753-1973 (London, 1998), ad indicem; I. G. Philip, `The Bodleian Library', in Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part I, ed. M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, The History of the University of Oxford, 6 (Oxford, 1997), 585-97, at 593.
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteGeorge John, second Earl Spencer (1758-1834); note on the endleaf in the hand of Francis Douce: see Dibdin, Spencer, I 239, no. 107.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Provenance
1834 -
Areae-uk
Time period1834 -
NoteAcquired in 1834
Method of acquisitionBequest
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