| After looking high an low for information about this book Synodia Vgonia episcopi Phamagustani. De conciliis, I did not find a single reference that explains the contents of it, however by a strange coincidence there is another copy of this publication that was bound by Derome le jeune in a red morocco, according to an entry in the Bernard Quaritch 1888 catalogue... |
| 36668 UGONI (Matteo) SYNoDIA UGONIA Episcopi Phamaugustani, very fine copy in red morocco extra, by Derome le jeune, from the library of the Duke of Sussex, £4.~ s. l. 1532 In a fine thin slanting Gothic type which seems to be from the Paganini press. The book is rare, having been found inconvenient by the court of Rome during the second half of the sixteenth century. |
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This book is not found in the 1769 catalogue of Gaignat's books, Paul Girardot de Prefond must have acquired it from elsewhere and then one wonders how George III acquired it. In our research of the previous page we thoroughly examined all references to another book with a Derome le jeune binding owned by King George III (C9c1) we did not however find out exactly how it was acquired or when, only learning that it was from the Gaignat library. It seemed likely that 7b12 might be found in MacCarthy's auction as he bought Prefonds second collection perhaps as late as 1775 (see below ). The catalogue for the MacCarthy auction was also drawn up by de Bure in 1815, the sale was in 1817, and sure enough I found this very item in that catalogue, number 448. Below I show the Hathitrust page on this catalogue (click here to see it) and also a translation of the 448 text. |
| 448. Synodia Ugonia episcopi Phamaugustani: conciliis. (Sive Matthiou Ugonii liber of omnibus ad concilia rite and legitimate celebranda pertinencibus.) 1532, in-fol goth. blue moroccan, dentelle and doublure of red moroccan with dentelle. The date of 1532 is only in the last sheet before Y errata. There are copies of this book with different dates; but it is always the same edition, to which the first page was changed. See the bibliography instruct. No. 223. |
| Once I realized this book came from the 1815 sale I started looking for some of the other Derome dentelle bindings, first I found this... number 149 at the bottom of the page this is Historia Sancti Johannis Evangelistae, Ejusque Visiones Apocalypticae in a red moroccan with a dentelle... from the Gaignat sale No. 112. In the continued text for No. 149 on the next page de Bure mentions items in this catalogue, No. 134, No. 142 and No. 143. He states that 149 "Il etoit relie avec cet ouvrage, dans le Cabinet Gaignat, No. 112" I take this to mean that previously it was bound with the Gaignat, No. 112 and at that time 112 was a brown velure binding, now 149 is in a red moroccan dentellle binding and the item No. 134 is the other part of No. 112, now also in red moroccan dentelle binding, who wants to bet that these two bindings are identical, proof, that these dentelle bindings were made by Derome le jeune after 1769. |
| Searching the internet for "Historiae Veteris et Novi Testamenti derome le jeune" I found in this catalogue Bibliotheca Hulthemiana ou catalogue methodique de la riche et precieuse collection de livres et de mss delaisses par M. Ch. Van Hulthem, published 1836, item No. 190 has a dentelle binding (click here to see it at archive.org) Below is another catalogue page that turned up. |
| From this page I copied and pasted "Grenville in London Mac Carthy" into Google and found a page on the Gutenberg Bible in the British Library (click here to see it) this is so interesting I have copied it below... |
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The Grenville copy is sometimes identified with a copy previously belonging to the Carthusians in Mainz. This is based on a letter from Gerhard Meerman of 1770 (published by Emil Jacobs in Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen, 21 (1910), pp. 159-160), who identified the copy of the Bible printed on vellum bound in two volumes sold at the sale of Louis Jean Gaignat with a copy allegedly taken from the Mainz Carthusians to France by J. B. Maugerard in 1767.
The Grenville copy was certainly the one owned by Louis Jean Gaignat (died 1768) (see Supplement a la bibliographie instructive, ou Catalogue des livres du cabinet de feu M. Louis Jean Gaignat (Paris: G. F. De Bure, April 1769), volume I, pp. 6-7, lot 16). The copy was bought at Gaignat's sale by Paul Girardot de Prefond for 2100 francs and 1 sou. Around 1775 it was acquired by Justin MacCarthy-Reagh (1744-1811) from Girardot de Prefond, according to Seymour De Ricci, Catalogue raisonne des premieres impressions de Mayence (1445-1467), Veroffentlichungen der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 8-9 (Mainz, 1911), p. 28, no. 1. At MacCarthy-Reagh's sale in 1817 it was sold for 6260 francs (see Catalogue des livres rares et precieux ... de feu M. le comte de Mac-Carthy Reagh (Paris: De Bure, 1815, sale: Jan. 1817), volume I, pp. 10-11, lot 61) to Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) (see Bibliotheca Grenvilliana or, Bibliographical notices of rare and curious books, forming part of the library of Thomas Grenville (London 1842-72), volume I, p. 74). Thomas Grenville bequeathed it to the British Museum in 1846. See Paul Schwenke, 'Die Gutenbergbibel', in: Johannes Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige Bibel: Erganzungsband zur Faksimile-Ausgabe (Leipzig, 1923), no. 29 at pp. 14-15. Ilona Hubay, 'Die bekannten Exemplare der zweiundvierzigzeiligen Bibel und ihre Besitzer', in: Johannes Gutenbergs zweiundvierzigzeilige Bibel, Faksimile-Ausgabe nach dem Exemplar der Staatsbibliothek preubischer Kulturbesitz Berlin: Kommentarband, ed. W. Schmidt and F. A. Schmidt-Kunsemuller (Munich, 1979), 127--55, at p. 142. |
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