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Title
Free translation of Emblematum liber by Andrea Alciati : manuscript and woodcuts
Authors and contributors
  • Alciati, Andrea,, 1492-1550. author
  • Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van,, active 1564-1589. artist
  • Richer, Jean,, -approximately 1599. printer
  • Selig, Karl-Ludwig,, 1926-2012. former owner
  • Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., Rare Book & Manuscript Library..
Publisher
[unpublished manuscript]
sp
Place of Publication
Spain
Publication Date
1589
Physical Description
printunmediatedvolume1 volume (236 leaves (various foliations)) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 x 11 cm (8vo)
Language
  • spa
  • lat
Subjects
  • Manuscripts -- Illinois -- Urbana -- Specimens
  • Emblems -- Early works to 1800
  • Emblem books, Spanish -- Early works to 1800
  • Spain
Notes
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Illustrations: 210 woodcut emblems after designs of Geeraard Jansen van Kampen, ranging in subject matter from classical mythology to botany. They were likely excised from the 1589 edition printed by Jean Richer in Paris and affixed to the leaves of the bound volume.
  • Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures, 5 October 2020; formerly owned by Karl-Ludwig Selig (1926-2012).
  • Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0254.
  • Bookseller shelf-mark: TM-1083 in pencil on rear paste-down.
  • 18th-century note in brown ink on leaf [2] reads: "Esta traduccion castellana es diferente en su mayor parte de la traduccion de Bernardino Daza que publico Rovilio en Leon a Francia."
  • Date of production based on publication date of woodcuts.
  • Last page blank.
  • Foliation: 106, 117-120; interleaved with 109 blanks.
  • Imperfections: Missing the second woodcut of a bat (n. 62); woodcut n. 150 has been partially reconstructed in ink, with added animal decoration probably taken from the upper border of one of the woodcuts; woodcut n. 151 top portion has been reconstructed using a piece of another copy of the same woodcut (which includes some remnants of the left decorative frame. The order of the last woodcuts is somewhat shuffled, as several woodcuts do not match the corresponding captions: caption 203 reads "el membrillo" (quince), but the woodcut represents an ivy; caption 204 reads "la yedra" (ivy), but the woodcut represents a quince tree; caption 205 reads "la coscoja" (kermes oak), but the woodcut represents an orange tree; caption 206 reads "el naranjo" (orange tree), but the woodcut represents a kermes oak; caption 208 reads "el almendro" (almond tree), but the woodcut represents a laurel; caption 209 reads "el moral" (mulberry), but the woodcut represents an almond tree; caption 210 reads "el alamo blanco" (silver poplar), but the woodcut represents a mulberry; caption 210b reads "el laurel" (laurel), but the woodcut represents a silver poplar.
  • Binding: 18th-century half leather over light brown paper, with gilt-stamped green leather spine label reading "Emblemas".
  • Purchased (Les Enluminures); Acquired through the E. Kenneth Gray Endowment Fund and with support from the Professor Henri Stegemeier Endowed Fund for Emblematica; 2 October 2020.
  • In Spanish, Latin, and Greek.
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