San Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
: 100801
ISTC No.iv00331000
TitleVocabularius: Gemma vocabulorum [Latin and Dutch]. Add: Propria nomina clarorum hominum, populorum, urbium, provinciarum, montium ac fluviorum magis insignium ex Joh. Tortellio
ImprintAntwerp : Thierry Martens, 20 Sept. 1494
Format4°
Languagedut
SubjectGrammar
Keywordseducation; dictionary
Periodmedieval?
Description of Copy
Copy Id02019657
Holding InstitutionSan Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
Shelfmark100801
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais.
Size of leaves207 × 138 mm
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Copy Features - NoteWants leaves a1r, P3-P4, T6.
Support material (book)Paper
SourceH. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 5055.
Provenance
1500 -
Time period1500 -
Provenance TypeBinding
Decoration
Binding noteWhite tanned skin over wooden boards tooled in blind. Set of two intersecting lines forming a frame filled rectangular stamps, set of two lines forming the central panel divided by set of two lines into saltire and a lozenge filled with rectangular, square rose and flower stamps (variations of stamps between covers). Remnant of a central clasp hanging on the lower cover. Contemporary paper pastedowns. Yellow edges.
Binding date16th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
Binding Dimensions217 × 140 × 60 mm
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesColoured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
Decoration NoteWoodcut on a2r supplied with black strokes.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1579
PlaceWaldsee (Geonames ID: 2953320)
Areae-gx
Time period - 1579
Provenance nameUldaricus Wolff [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn the upper pastedown: inscription ‘Sum Uldarici Wolffii Waldseensis’ in black ink (with the help of Romain Jurot).
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1579 -
Time period1579 -
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn the upper pastedown: inscriptions ‘Hic liber mihi datum est ab Uldarico Wolffo Waldsensis Johannes Freymo 1579’ and below ‘Johannis Freymo’ in black ink (with the help of Romain Jurot).
Method of acquisitionDonation
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1600
Time period - 1600
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn the upper pastedown: inscription ‘Johan Aies[?]+’ in black ink (with the help of Romain Jurot).
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1600
Time period - 1600
Provenance TypeInscription
Manuscript Notes
NoteOn the upper pastedown: inscription ‘Amey + ich heyman[?] Amey et hey das buch ist mir Amey heyman[?]’ in black ink. On g6v: inscription ‘Amey heyman[?]’ in black ink (with the help of Romain Jurot).
Manuscript notesThroughout the text: occasional manuscript notes/signs in black ink.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookThroughout
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1600 -
1823
PlaceFribourg (Geonames ID: 2660718)
Areae-sz
Time period1600 - 1823
Provenance TypeBinding
Shelfmark
Method of acquisitionunknown
Binding noteAccording to the label and the shelfmark, this book was housed in the Jesuit College from the early 17th century. On the spine: inscription ‘G’ and paper label bearing the title ‘Dictionarium antiquum.’ in red ink.
Historic ShelfmarkOn the spine: former shelfmark ‘G 57’ in white ink (Shelfmark pattern No.: 6)
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1823 -
1872
PlaceBroadway (Geonames ID: 2654628)
Note on provenance placeIn Middle Hill estate near Broadway until 1863 when he moved to Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1823 - 1872
Provenance TypeInscription
Binding
Bibliographic Evidence
Documentary Evidence
NotePhillipps bought this book from the Jesuits of Fribourg in January 1823 through the bookseller Jean A. Lamy (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, c. 413, fols 11r and 16r for Lamy's bills). He recorded the purchase in a list headed ‘Empti de Collegio Jesuitarum apud Friburgi in Helvetia (vide priores)’ as ‘Latin & Flemish Dictionary 1494 (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, f. 72, fol. 8v).
He catalogued it in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books’ (Middle Hill, 1824): Books from Berne – 6 boxes, in box 1: ‘Gemma Vocabulorum. 1494.’, p. 4 and in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill’ (Middle Hill, 1828): ‘[no.] 1499 Gemma Vocabulorum. 1494’, p. 21 and ‘[no.] 3500 Vocabulorum Gemma [Latin and Dutch.] 8vo.
Theodoric Martin, Antwerpiae, 1494’, p. 48.
On the spine: label with the number ‘[6]30’ printed in bold in black ink and inscription ‘56’ in pencil in his hand. On the upper pastedown: inscription ‘630’ in black ink.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Library catalogue
Documentary source
Provenance
1872 -
1923
PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Note on provenance placeIn Thirlestaine House.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1872 - 1923
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteFenwick, Phillipps's grandson, inherited the Phillipps Library and started to sell it from 1885 onwards. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 14-21.
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Provenance
1923 -
1923
PlacePhiladelphia (Geonames ID: 4560349)
Arean-us-pa
Time period1923 - 1923
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteIn 1923, Rosenbach bought from Fenwick more than 700 incunabula which he directly sold to Huntington. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 76-77; D. C. Dickinson, Henry E. Huntington’s Library of Libraries (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, 1995), pp. 190-191.
On the upper pastedown: inscription ‘746’ in pencil referring to the book’s number in the list of Phillipps’s incunabula which Rosenbach presented to Huntington (List of Incunabula collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps, October 1923, Curator of Rare Books Office, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Provenance
1923 -
1927
PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1923 - 1927
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSee above.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Provenance
1927 -
PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1927 -
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteHenry Huntington founded the library to house his collection.
Method of acquisitionBequest
Manuscript notesOn the upper pastedown: bibliographical information and references to incunabula catalogues in pencil.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Library catalogue
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
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