Thirty-seven bindings are now known with the motto “Patriae et Amicis” lettered on their upper covers, the date 1568 (in Roman numerals) on lower covers, and the author’s name on the back. Three such bindings were mentioned by G.D. Hobson in 1926; six were identified by Mirjam Foot in 1975, and Anthony Hobson in 2006 expanded her list to eight.¹ None of the volumes offers other evidence of their original owner. Apart from eight works of contemporary history, seven by Paolo Giovio and one by Paolo Emilio, in Latin editions published respectively in 1560-1561 at Basel and in 1555 at Paris, and a Latin edition of Angelo Poliziano’s letters, published in 1546 at Lyon, the books are editions of the Latin classics, printed 1546-1568, predominantly by Sébastien Gryphe at Lyon (19), the remainder from Christophe Plantin at Antwerp (5), and Jérôme de Marnef (2) and Benoît Prévost at Paris (1). Fourteen of the volumes are octavos and the rest duodecimos or sextodecimos.

The German custom of recording the date of acquisition on a binding suggested to Anthony Hobson that the owner was a German student on a peregrinatio academica in France. The motto “Patriae et Amicis” is associated with the noble Pfinzing family of Nuremberg, and Hobson identified Martin Seifried Pfinzing von Henfenfeld (1547-1579) as the member of the family most likely to have been studying in France in 1568.

Judging by the large number of exlibris commissioned by members of Pfinzing family,² they were passionate book collectors and accumulated sizeable libraries, notwithstanding the few volumes containing an exlibris which have survived. In 1555, Paul Pfinzing (1523-1570) devised with the Nuremberg printmaker Virgil Solis a woodcut exlibris portraying the newly-dignified family insignia with a new motto, “Patriae et Amicis,” lettered around a scene of Marcus Curtius in front of the abyss, an image of male bravery, referring perhaps to his or his father’s exploits in the campaign against the Turks.³ The same motto and scene of Marcus Curtius appear on two portrait medals, cast in 1555-1556, recording Paul’s appointment as an imperial councillor and personal secretary to Charles V and to Philip II of Spain.⁴ Paul subsequently commissioned from the printmaker Matthias Zündt of Nuremberg three etched versions of Solis’ woodcut exlibris, each with the “Patriae et Amicis” motto, two of which are dated 1569.⁵ His elder brother, Martin II (1521-1572), who had married in 1544 Katharina Scherl, commissioned meanwhile two exlibris: one from Zündt, about 1565, displaying the Pfinzing and Scherl insignia side-by-side (without a motto);⁶ the other from Jost Amman, about 1568, showing the Henfenfeld arms alone (motto: Deus Videt).⁷ When Philip II left for Spain, Paul accompanied him to Madrid, and he died there in 1570. Martin II thereafter took some of Paul’s Zündt exlibris with the “Patriae et Amicis” motto for his own use, personalising them by adding his name on the blank tablets; later members of the family did likewise. It is notable, however, that neither of Martin II’s two portrait medals, nor medals made for other family members, use the motto “Patriae et Amicis”.⁸ This, presumably, was the personal motto of Paul, not a family motto.

Martin Seifried – Hobson’s candidate for the commissioner of these bindings – was Paul and Martin II’s half-brother (by Martin I’s second wife, Barbara Tetzel). Nothing is known of his education, however in 1568 he made an entry in an album amicorum kept by a student at Tübingen university, Johann Ulrich Starck (matriculated 21 May 1568). Martin Seifried’s brother, Johannes (1546-1582), placed his autograph in the same album on 23 August 1570,⁹ however neither Martin Seifried nor Johannes is recorded as a student in Tübingen. In 1569, Martin Seifried married Catharina Starck von Reckenhof, and became an Assessor in Nuremberg, where he died in 1579, aged 32. On some impressions of Zündt’s exlibris the blank tablet is filled (using a second engraved plate) with the motto “Saluti Patriae Vixisse Honestat”. Hobson reasoned that Martin Seifried had “dropped” use of his first name, and that such impressions of the exlibris were used by him personally, the initial letters of the motto (S.P.V.H.) signifying instead Seifried Pfinzing von Henfenfeld.¹⁰

If these thirty-seven bindings bearing the motto “Patriae et Amicis” and date “1568” are indeed associated with the Pfinzing family, then Paul Pfintzing most probably was their owner. Paul died, unmarried, at Madrid on 30 August 1570, and although the disposition of his library is uncertain, the books most likely remained in Spain.¹¹ It may be no coincidence that a large number of the “Patriae et Amicis” bindings were in Spanish ownership in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. Eleven, possibly 13 volumes, have the distinctive shelfmarks of the library formed by Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke de Osuna (1625-1694).¹² Another eleven, possibly fourteen volumes, contain the ownership inscription of the Jesuit Pierre Robinet (1656-1738). Sometime professor at Pont-à-Mousson and Strasbourg, rector of the Jesuit Colleges at Strasbourg and Reims, Robinet had been appointed Confessor to Philip V in 1705,¹³ and in 1712 became director of the royal library in Madrid. He assisted in the consolidation of the King’s personal collection, and gathered books confiscated from the libraries of Antonio Folch de Cardona, Archbishop of Valencia, and other rebels. In 1715, Robinet returned to Strasbourg, becoming again rector of the Jesuit College, to which he bequeathed his library.¹⁴ Did Robinet acquire his fourteen “Patriae et Amicis” bindings – seven volumes of Cicero, three of Livy, editions of Sallust, Justinus, Diogenes Laertius, Dionysius Halicarnassus – while in Spain, or later, on the French market?

Three of the eight books in Anthony’s Hobson’s list are decorated in gilt with interlacing ribbons and hatched tools, in a style dubbed “pre-fanfare” or “type primitif”. The Herodotus (no. 22) is decorated to a different pattern, however it features the same tulip tool:

The Martialis (no. 28) is decorated by cornucopia corner-blocks, these seemingly identical to those found on a Plantin imprint of 1566,¹⁵ and on a book bound in Paris about 1580.¹⁶ The three bindings have no tools in common.

Left “Patriae et Amicis” binding No. 28 : Martialis (Antwerp: Plantin, 1568)
Centre Comparative illustration (on Plantin Ovid 1566) (Meurnier Pl. 71)
Right Comparative illustration (“Paris, atelier non identifié, vers 1580”) (BnF reliures [link]

Three books in Anthony’s Hobson’s list, all three Plantin imprints published 1566-1568, among them the Martialis (no. 28), are decorated by the same cartouche. Hobson noted that it resembles, but is not identical, to a cartouche used in Paris in 1566 on a binding for a Swiss student, Ludwig zur Gilgen [image, link].¹⁷

Left “Patriae et Amicis" binding, No. 28 : Martialis (Antwerp: Plantin, 1568)
Centre Comparative illustration (Flemish binding, on Plantin Ovid 1566) (British Library [link])
Right Comparative illustration (Parisian binding for Ludwig zur Gilgen, dated 1566) (British Library [link])

list of bindings

(1) Appianus, De civilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque (Lyon: Heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1560) [FB 53608, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Strassburg, Médiathèque André Malraux, C 1104 (opac, link; Catalogue collectif de France (hereafter ccfr) Belle rel. ancienne avec la légende: Patriae et amicis et la date: MDLXVIII”)


(2) Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis M.T. Ciceronis libri tres Eiusdem, De Amicitia, De Senectute Dialogi duo: cum Paradoxis, & Somnio Scipionis. Omnia denuo, optimis quibusque collatis exemplaribus diligentißime castigata (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1555) [FB 61946, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet Regi Cathol. à confess.” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 23

literature
Louis Schlaefli, Catalogue des livres du seizième siècle (1531-1599) de la bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire de Strasbourg (Baden-Baden 1995), no. 644 (“Reliure à Grolier datée de 1568”)


(3-4) Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marci Tulii Ciceronis De philosophia tomus primus (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1548), bound with Cicero, Philosophicorum M.T. Ciceronis Tomus II (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1548) [FB 61749 / 61760, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet ….” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 22

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 646 (“2 vol. in 16° … Reliure à Grolier de 1568”)


(5) Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum, Brutum, & Q. Fratrem (“Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1561” - Lyon & Turnbull)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg
● Lyon & Turnbull, Rare books, manuscripts, maps & photographs, Edinburgh, 4 May 2016, lot 178 (offered among “Other properties”; sextodecimo, “contemporary embossed vellum, elaborately gilt incorporating ‘Patriae et Amicis’ and ‘MDLXVIII’ on sides, gilt edges, rubbed, upper cover detached”) [RBH 461-178; catalogue online, link; FB 62126-7 are Lyon “apud Jean Frellon” and “apud Antoine Vincent” editions of 1561, in 16mo; none with Sébastien’s name; USTC does not record a Sébastien Gryphe “1561” edition; if printed by him, perhaps “apud Sébastien Gryphe, 1551” or “apud héritiers Sébastien Gryphe, 1560” (a 1567 edition is “apud Antoine Gryphe, 1567”)]


(6) Marcus Tullius Cicero, M. T. Cice. Epistolarum, ut vocant, familiarium libri XVI denuo, collatis non paucis venerandae fidei exemplaribus, quam accuratissime castigati (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1553) [FB 61903, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet ….” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 20

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 649 (“Reliure à Grolier de 1568”)


(7) Marcus Tullius Cicero, M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum tomus primus (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1550) [FB 61819, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet ….” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 24

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 652 (“Reliure à Grolier datée de 1568”) [edition in 3 volumes; Schlaefli gives pagination for vol. 1 only, not certain vols. 2-3 are present]


(8) Marcus Tullius Cicero, M. T. Cic. Rhetoricorum ad Caium Herennium libri quatuor. De inventione libri duo (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1555) [FB 61968, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet ….” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 21

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 654 (“2 tomes en 1 vol. in-16°, 12 cm. Reliure à Grolier de 1568”)


(9) Diogenes Laertius, De vita et moribus philosophorum (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566) [FB 65093, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. et Sem. Ep. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet Regi Catholico à Confessionibus” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ig 46 (Schlaefli’s shelfmark)

literature
Karl Westendorp, Die Kunst der alten Buchbinder auf der Ausstellung von Bucheinbaenden im Alten Schloss zu Strassburg Els. veranstaltet (Halle a. d. Saale 1909), Pl. 37 (“Gebleichtes Schweinsleder mit Goldpressung. Eine Kartusche in Metallcharakter mit verschlungenen und ausgerollten Bändern fällt die ganze Deckelflache und rahmt einen kleinen Mittelschild ein mit der Devise: ‘Patriae et amicis’, der auf dem Rückdeckel die Jahreszahl 1568 entspricht. Goldschnitt. Rücken: 5 Bünde. 17,5 x 11,5. Frankreich 1568. Besitzer: Priesterseminar Straßburg (A.Z. 182).”)
Geoffrey D. Hobson, Maioli Canevari and others (London 1926), p.48 [citing Westendorp; refers to two similar bindings, “known to me only by rubbings given to me by Mr Francis Harvey”]
Mirjam Foot, “Some bindings for foreign students in 16th century Paris” in The Book Collector (1975), pp.106-110 (p.106) [reprinted, in Studies in the History of Bookbinding (Aldershot 1993), without alteration]
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 941 (“Reliure à la Grolier, blanche à filets dorés, de 1568. Sur l’avers: Patriae et amicis; sur le revers: mdlxviii”)
Anthony Hobson, “Three plaquette bindings and a German collector” in Bibliophilies et reliures: Mélanges offerts à Michel Wittock, edited by Annie de Coster & Claude Sorgeloos (Brussels 2006), pp.265-269 (p.268 no. 3: “bound in vellum with a strapwork plaquette: the motto overruns the central compartment, giving the impression that it was added to a bound book”)


(10-11) Dio Cassius Cocceianus, Dionis Nicaei Rerum Romanarum a Pompeio Magno ad Alexandrum Mamaeae filium epitome (Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1559), bound with Dio Cassius Cocceianus, Dionis Cassii Nicaei, Romanae historiae libri (tot enim hodie extant) XXV, nimirum XXXVI a ad LXI (Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1559) [FB 65036, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna
● “Catálogo de las obras impresas pertenecientes a la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna y adquiridas por el Gobierno de su Majestad, en 1886 con destino a esta Biblioteca [Nacional]” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Mss 18848), no. 1837 (“2 vol. 8°. Becerr. ad dor. de la época”) [link]
● Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/5069, R/5070 (R/5069, opac [link] Ejemplar con marcas de pautado de la caja de impresión. Signatura manuscrita característica de la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado: ‘Plut. VI. Lit. G. Nº. 14’. Encuadernación en tafilete color avellana de estilo renacentista, s. XVI; recuadro exterior de tres hilos dorados en mosaico pintado negro que enmarca una decoración en las esquinas de cuatro planchas con hierros azurados perfiladas por mosaicos pintados en negro, en el centro una plancha poli lobulada azurada perfilada con mosaicos pintados en negro con óvalo central y la leyenda: ‘Patriae et amicis’ en la tapa delantera y el año ‘m.d.lxviii’ en la tapa trasera, entrecalle rellena de hierros de espiral y aldinos; lomo con cinco nervios cuajados; cantos y cortes dorados. R/5070, opac [link] Ejemplar con marcas de pautado de la caja de impresión. En las tapas lema: ‘Patriae et amicis’ y ‘mdlxviii’. Signatura manuscrita característica de la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado: ‘Plut. VI. Lit. G. Nº. 15’; Encuadernación en piel color avellana de estilo Grolier, s. XVI; recuadro en mosaico pintado enmarcado por dos hilos dorados, el rectángulo interior está decorado por entrelazos de dos hilos con mosaico pintado, que forman diversas figuras geométricas; los compartimentos aparecen decorados por hierros de espirales y aldinos azurados; en el centro de la tapa delantera, la leyenda ‘Patriae et Amicis’ dentro de un óvalo y en la trasera, el año de edición ‘m.d.lxviii’; lomo con el título dorado, cinco nervios cuajados, y otro en la cabeza, más fino y trenzado; cantos y cortes dorados.” image [link])


(12) Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Antiquitatum, sive originum Romanorum, libri decem. Adjecimus undecimum ex versione Lapi: ac indicem rerum notatu dignarum (Lyon: Symphorien Barbier for Jean Frellon, 1561) [FB 65415, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet Regi Cathol. à Confession” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 19

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 978 (“Reliure à Grolier de 1568”)


(13) Paulus Aemilius, Pauli Aemylii Veronensis historici clarissimi De rebus gestis Francorum libri X. De rebus gestis gallorum libri IX ad historiam Pauli Aemyli additi. Chronicon I tilii de regibus Francorum a Pharamundo usque ad Henricum II (Paris: Michel de Vascosan, 1555) [USTC 151763, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna
● “Catálogo de las obras impresas pertenecientes a la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna y adquiridas por el Gobierno de su Majestad, en 1886” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Mss 18848), no. 44 (“Becerr. de la época. (Este ejemplar solo contiene la obra de Paulo Emilio.)” [link]
● Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/8676 (opac, link: Ejemplar con marcas de pautado de la caja de impresión en tinta roja. Signatura característica de la Biblioteca de la Casa de Osuna: “124=6” Encuadernación restaurada en piel color avellana de estilo Grolier; s. XVI; recuadro de dos hilos dorados unidos en las esquinas, el rectángulo interior con fondo punteado, está decorado por entrelazos de dos hilos que forman diversas figuras geométricas, los compartimentos aparecen decorados por hierros de espirales y aldinos azurados, en el centro de la tapa delantera, la leyenda patriae et amicis dentro de un cuadrado y en la trasera, el año de edición; lomo con el título dorado, cinco nervios cuajados; cantos y cortes dorados. image [link])


(14) Lucius Annaeus Florus, De gestis Romanorum libri quatuor cum annotationibus (Paris: Jérôme de Marnef, 1564) [FB 70790, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Karl & Faber, Katalog 18: Medizin und Naturwissenschaften, seltene Drucke und kostbare Einbände, alte Stadtansichten, Munich, 16-17 January 1940, lot 481 (“Auf Vorderdeckel die Devise ‘Patriae et Amicis’, auf Rückdeckel ‘MDLXVIII’ (=1568). Rücken durchlaufendes Rankenmuster, im oberen Teil ‘Florus’.”)
● Stuttgarter Antiquariat (Dr. F. Kocher-Benzing), in 1975

literature
Hobson, op. cit., no. 2 & Fig. 5


(15) Paolo Giovio, Elogia doctorum virorum ab auorum memoria publicatis ingenij monumentis illustrium (Basel: [Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna], 1561) [VD16 G 2060, 8vo, as part of the 1561 Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna Elogia virorum bellica - see no. 16]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna
● “Catálogo de las obras impresas pertenecientes a la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna y adquiridas por el Gobierno de su Majestad, en 1886 con destino a esta Biblioteca [Nacional]” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Mss 18848), no. 3087 (“Basilea s.a. La dedicatoria es de 1556.) Becerr. de la época.”) [link]
● Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/4175 (opac, link: Posible superlibros en las cubiertas con leyenda: “Patriae et amicis”. Signatura característica de la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado: “Plut.V. Lit.D Nº30”. Caja de escritura pautada a mano. Nota de procedencia: Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado. Nota encuadernación: Encuadernación en piel color castaño de estilo “a la fanfare”, s. XVI; en ambas tapas recuadro exterior de tres hilos dorados que enmarcan una decoración de una cinta de dobles hilos entrelaza formando diversas figuras geométricas, los compartimentos aparecen decorados por hierros de espirales y aldinos azurados, en el centro de la tapa delantera la leyenda “Patria et Amicis” dentro de un óvalo y en la trasera el año de edición; lomo cuajado con cinco nervios y otro en la cabeza más fino y trenzado; cantos y cortes dorados.”; image [link])


(16) Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium Doctorum item virorum ingenii monumentis illustrium ab auorum memoria publicatis (Basel: Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna, 1561) [VD16 G 2064, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Barcelona, Biblioteca de la Universitat, 07 CM-2376 (opac Ex. inc.: falta el quadern +, enq. pell en mal estat estil Grolier, a la coberta ant. la inscripció “Patriae et amicis”, a la coberta post. “m.d.lxviii.”, talls daurats, port. i caixa pautades (Restaurat Jul. 2001). R. 74830. Exposat 1990, 2001)

literature
Association internationale de bibliophilie, XXII. Congrès, Barcelone, 16-22 septembre 2001, no. 33 (“Les primeres obres presentades són mostres d’enquadernació. La primera és la de l’obra de Paolo Giovio, Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium, impresa a Basilea el 1561. És una relligadura francesa à la fanfare, amb ferros aldins que té un medalló central amb la divisa “Patriae et amicis” a la tapa anterior i la data mdlxviii a la posterior, tot daurat; els talls també són daurats.”) [exhibition text and image online, link]
Hobson, op. cit., no. 1


(17-18-19) Paolo Giovio, Pauli Iouii Novocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis tomus primus. Accessit Rerum turcicarum commentarius eiusdem Iouij ad finem operis, ex Italico latinus factus (Basel: Heinrich Petri for Peter Perna, 1560), bound with Giovio, Pauli Iouii Novocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis. Tomus secundus (Basel: Heinrich Petri for Peter Perna, 1560), bound with Giovio, Pauli Iouii Novocomensis Episcopi Nucerini Historiarum sui temporis. Tomi secundi pars altera (Basel: Heinrich Petri for Peter Perna, 1560)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna (opac)
● Granada, Biblioteca Universitaria, Hospital Real, A-038-434, A-038-435, A-038-436 (opac [link] Superlibris en encuadernación lyonesa ‘a la fanfare’ con cortes dorados: ‘Patriae et amicis. mdlxviii’; Procedencia - Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna; images vol. 1 [link], vol. 2/1 [link], vol. 2/2 [link])


(20-21) Paolo Giovio, Pauli Iouii Nouocomensis episcopi Nucerini Illustrium virorum vitae. Acceßit ad posteriorem hanc editionem Alphonsi atestini ducis ferrariae vita, cum gemine indice regionum scilicet, civitatum fluuiorum et portuum antiquis et novis nominibus, et rerum memorabilium. Tomus primus (Basel: Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna 1559), bound with Giovio, Pauli Iouii Nouocomensis episcopi Nucerini Vitae virorum illustrium. Tomus secundus (Basel: Heinrich Petri & Peter Perna 1559)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna
● “Catálogo de las obras impresas pertenecientes a la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna y adquiridas por el Gobierno de su Majestad, en 1886 con destino a esta Biblioteca [Nacional]” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Mss 18848), no. 3088 (“2 vol. 8°. Becerr. de la época.”) [link]
● Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/8689, R/8690 (opac, link Ejemplares con marcas de pautado de la caja de impresión en tinta roja. Signaturas manuscritas características de la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado: ‘Plut. V. Lit. D. Nº 24’, ‘Plut. V. Lit. D. Nº 25’. Encuadernación en piel color avellana de estilo ‘a la fanfare’, s. XVI; recuadro de dos hilos dorados unidos en las esquinas, rectángulo interior con entrelazos de dos hilos que forman diversas figuras geométricas decoradas por hierros de espirales y aldinos azurados que enmarcan en la tapa delantera, un óvalo central con mosaico pintado y la leyenda patriae et amicis en su interior y en la trasera, el año de edición; lomo con cinco nervios decorado con hierros azurados y de espiral; cantos y cortes dorados.”)


(22) Herodotus, Libri VIIII musarum nominibus inscripti. De genere vitaque Homeri libellus (Lyon: Heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1558) [FB 73733, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Bruce McKittrick Rare Books, Narberth, PA; their Catalog 52 (Narberth, PA 2007), item 39 ($3500; “contemporary gilt tan calf (hinges cracked), panels alike with triple rule outer border, elaborate corner fleurons of azured foliage, field filled with tiny solid tulips, scrollwork central oval medallion with a larger azured tulip at top & bottom, front medallion lettered Patriae et Amicis & rear medallion with azured foliage & date mdlxviii gilt, all edges gilt”)
● T. Kimball Brooker (purchased from the above, 2007) [Bibliotheca Brookeriana ID #2297; offered by Sotheby’s, Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library, Part V, London, 10 December 2024, lot 1115]


(23) Q. Horatius Flaccus, Opera, ad editionem, atque veteres aliquot libros collatus, & scholiis e scriptis doctissimorum hominum collectis, illustratus (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Jean Marthe Félicité de Bruyères-Chalabre (1785-1832)
● Lefèvre & Jacques-Simon Merlin, Catalogue des livres imprimés et manuscrits et des autographes de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Bruyères Chalabre, Paris, 6-25 May 1833, lot 424 ([Horace & Ovid q.v., sold together] “424. Q. Horatius Fl., Theod. Pulmanni operâ ad Mureti, Lambini aliorumque editionem collatus et scholiis illustratus. Antuerpiae, Plantinus, 1566, 1 vol. - P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV, ex Andr. Naugerii castigatione; Fastorum Libri VI; Tristium Libri V; de Ponto Libri IV; in Ibim; ad Liviam. Ibid., 1566 et 1567, 2 vol.; les 3 vol. in-16, réglés, v.f. à compart., tr. dor. Belle reliure du temps, avec la devise: patriae et amicis.”)
● unidentified owner - bought in sale (FF 38)
● Joseph-Louis Léopold, baron Double (1812-1881)
● Boulouze & J. Techener, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Léopold Double, Paris, 24-27 March 1863, lot 366 (“Très-belle et curieuse reliure du XVIe siècle, avec la date 1568, sur l’un des plats, et la devise: Patriae et Amicis, sur l’autre”)
● Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1813-1894) - bought in sale (FF 180)
● Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of a selection of valuable books from the library of the Late Right Hon. The Earl of Orford, London, 10-11 June 1895, lot 136 (“contemporary bright Lyonnese calf, stamped gilt ornamental corners and centre cartouche interspersed with semis of small stars, and having the motto ‘Patriae et Amicis’ in centre of upper cover, and date 1568 on the under”)
● James Toovey, London - bought in sale (£15)
● David Lloyd Roberts (1834-1920) (opac)
● Manchester, John Rylands Library, R52174 (opac Red-ruled throughout … Sixteenth-century French full calfskin; gilt-tooled with large corner pieces and a large centre block on a semis of four-dot tools; in the centre of the upper cover direct-lettered in gilt: Patriae et amicis; in the centre of the rear cover direct-lettered in gilt: m. d. lxviii.; board edges gilt-tooled with a line and dashes; smooth spine divided up by fillet to create a compartment effect; the third compartment direct-lettered in gilt: Ho / rat; all other compartments gilt-tooled with rolls and leaf tools; all edges gilt. [link])

literature
Foot, op. cit., p.106
Hobson, op. cit., no. 4


(24) Marcus Junianus Justinus, Ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri XXXXIIII. His accessit de vita et moribus Romanorum imperatorum epitome (Paris: Jérôme de Marnef, 1566) [FB 76683, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet Regi Catholico à Confession” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 17

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 1721 (“Reliure à la Grolier”)


(25-26-27) Titus Livius, Titi Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decas tertia (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1554), bound with Titus Livius, Titi Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decas quarta (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1554), bound with Titus Livius, Titi Livii Patavini Latinae Historiae Principis Decadis quintae libri V (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1554)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Strasbourg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, I Ih 8, I Ih 9, I Ih 10

literature
Ernst Polaczek, Ausstellung von Bucheinbänden: veranstaltet durch die Landesverwaltung von Elsass-Lothringen, im alten Schloss zu Strassburg i.E., 6-20 Oktober 1907 ([Strasbourg 1907], Abb. 6
Westendorp, op. cit., Pl. 40 (“40. Titi Livii Decadis Quintae. s.a. et l. Kalbleder mit Goldpressung. Bänder auf Außenrahmen schwarz ausgemalt. Um den Mittelschild mit der Devise ‘Patriae et amicis’ ranken sich arabeske Spiralen. In der Mitte des ebenfalls mit Spiralen gefüllten Rückens der Titel: ‘Titi Livii Decas’. Goldschnitt und Stehkantenvergoldung. 12 x 7,5. Frankreich 1568. Besitzer: Priesterseminar Straßburg”)
Geoffrey D. Hobson, Les reliures à la fanfare: le problème de l’S fermé (London 1935), p.5 no. 26 (“Première liste: Les reliures ‘à la fanfare’ du type primatif, no. 26 … [Premier possesseur:] Inconnu [footnote:] Cette reliure porte la devise: ‘Patriae et amicis’ (voir Maioli, Canevari and others p.48, n. 4). Elle n’a pas le filet double, elle est datée de 1568”)
Foot, op. cit., p.106
Schlaefli, op. cit., nos. 1858-1860 (Decas tertia, quarta, quintae, each 1554, each “Reliure à la Grolier”)
Hobson, op. cit., no. 8


(28) Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata ab omni rerum obscenitate, verborumque turpitudine vindicata (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1568) [NB 20651, 12mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Léon Gruel (1841-1923), exlibris (“No. 517” written beneath)
● F.-E. Valois, “Le Bibliophile a l’Exposition” in Revue biblio-iconographique 7 (1900), pp.261-275 (cited p.270: “une jolie reliure maroquin rouge, époque de Charles IX, portant inscrite dans un médaillon central la devise caractéristique que voici: ‘Patriae et amicis’. C’est une variante de Grolier.”)
● Maurice Burrus (1882-1959), his acquisition label on lower endleaf
● Étienne et Antoine Ader, Jean-Louis Picard, Jacques Tajan & Claude Guérin, Reliures et livres anciens, Paris, 15 November 1971, lot 94 (“De la bibliothèque L. Gruel”)
● unidentified owner - bought in sale (FF 3500)
● Rossignol, Paris, 1992
● T. Kimball Brooker (purchased from the above, 1992) [Bibliotheca Brookeriana ID #2345]
● Sotheby’s, Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. Magnificent Books and Bindings, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 62 [link] [RBH N11245-62]
● unidentified owner - bought in sale ($9525)

literature
Foot, op. cit., p.106 no. 4
T. Kimball Brooker, Upright works: the emergence of the vertical library in the sixteenth century, Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Chicago, 1996, Fig. 238
Hobson, op. cit., no. 7


(29-30) Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoseon, libri XV (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566), with Publius Ovidius Naso, Fastorum libri VI. Tristium libri V. De Ponto libri IIII. In ibim. Ad Liviam (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1567)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● two inscriptions deleted from verso of title-page; old shelf mark on paste down Lt (or Lf) 203, Lt 204
● Jean Marthe Félicité de Bruyères-Chalabre (1785-1832)
● Lefèvre & Jacques-Simon Merlin, Catalogue des livres imprimés et manuscrits et des autographes de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Bruyères Chalabre, Paris, 6-25 May 1833, lot 424 ([Ovid & Horace q.v., sold together] “424. Q. Horatius Fl., Theod. Pulmanni operâ ad Mureti, Lambini aliorumque editionem collatus et scholiis illustratus. Antuerpiae, Plantinus, 1566, 1 vol. - P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV, ex Andr. Naugerii castigatione; Fastorum Libri VI; Tristium Libri V; de Ponto Libri IV; in Ibim; ad Liviam. Ibid., 1566 et 1567, 2 vol.; les 3 vol. in-16, réglés, v.f. à compart., tr. dor. Belle reliure du temps, avec la devise: patriae et amicis.”)
● unidentified owner - bought in sale (FF 38)
● Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri, Count Libri-Carrucci (1803-1869)
● S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, Catalogue of the choicer portion of the magnificent library, formed by M. Guglielmo Libri, London, 1-15 August 1859, lot 1898 (“A beautiful specimen of the Flemish binding of the XVIth century, the sides and back completely covered with gold tooling. On the obverse cover is impressed ‘Patriae et Amicis,’ and on the reverse ‘mdlxviii.’”)
● Boone - bought in sale (£2 8s)
● London, British Library, C.47.a.7,8 (opac Incomplete; wanting vol. 2. In Flemish binding of the 16th century [link])

literature
Foot, op. cit., p.106
Hobson, op. cit., nos. 5-6 & Fig. 6
British Library, Database of Bookbindings, link (Fastorum)


(31) Philostratus Atheniensis, Philostrati Lemnii senioris Historiae de vita Apollonii Tyanei libri octo (Paris: Benoît Prévost for Pierre Beguin, 1555)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Victorien Sardou (1831-1908)
● F. Lair-Dubreuil with Henri Baudoin & Henri Leclerc, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu m. Victorien Sardou, Première partie, Paris, 25-27 May 1909, lot 491 (“Jolie reliure du seizième siècle portant sur le premier plat, dans n petit médaillon, cette devise ‘Patriae et Amicis’ et sur le second la date 1568 en chiffres romains”)

literature
L’intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, no. 343 (25 August 1882), col. 488 ([notice by Emaphé Junior] “Quel est le bibliophile du XVIe siècle qui avait pour devise: Patriae et Amicis, devise que nous trouvons sur le plat d’un volume (Philostrati Lemnii Senioris historiae Apollonii Tyanei … Paris 1555)? Le second plat de la reliure porte la date MDLXVIII (1568). La reliure sur laquelle se trouvent cette devise et cette date, et un des plus jolis spécimens de la reliure lyonnaise au XVIe siècle, cela pourra peut-être mettre sur la piste nos collabos qui s’occupent spécialement du Lyonnais”)


(32) Titus Maccius Plautus, M. Accii Plauti Comoediae viginti: nunc vero plus quam CC versibus, qui passim desiderabantur, ex versibus CC additis, suo quodammodo nitori restitutae. Aliquot aliorum doctorum virorum, partim margini adscriptae, partim in calcem rejectae, observations (Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1566) [USTC 401246, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Alexander Apponyi (1843-1925)
● Budapest, Hungarian National Library, App. H. 396

literature
Sándor Apponyi, Hungarica: Ungarn Betreffende im auslande gedruckte Bücher und Flugschriften gesammelt und beschrieben von Graf Alexander Apponyi (Munich 1903), I, no. 396 (“Sehr schönes Exemplar in braunem Ledereinbande, mit reichen Goldverzierungen. Auf der einen Seite der Wahlspruch ‘Patriæ; et Amicis’, auf der andern das Datum M.D.LVIII. Wir kennen ein wunderschönes, von Matthias Zündt im Jahre 1569 gestochenes, Ex libris mit den Wappen der Pflinzing von Helfenfeld und demselben Wahlspruche. Sollte der Einband auf dieselben Provenienz deuten?”)


(33-34) Angelo Poliziano, Angeli Politiani Operum tomus primus. Epistolarum libros XII, ac miscellaneorum centuriam I, complectens (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1546), bound with Poliziano, Angeli Politiani Operum tomus secundus continens ea quae ex Graeco in Latinum convertit (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1546), bound with Poliziano, Operum Angeli Politiani tertius tomus, Eiusdem praelectiones, orationes, & epigrammata complectens (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1546) [FB 83491, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna
● “Catálogo de las obras impresas pertenecientes a la Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna y adquiridas por el Gobierno de su Majestad, en 1886 con destino a esta Biblioteca [Nacional]” (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Mss 18848), no. 4879 (“2 vol. 8°. Becerr. ad d. del. s. XVI”) [link]
● Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/7377-R/7378 ([three volumes bound in two]; opac [link] Nota de procedencia: Biblioteca del Duque de Osuna e Infantado. Nota encuadernación: Encuadernación en piel color avellana de estilo “a la fanfare”, s. XVI; recuadro de dos hilos dorados unidos en las esquinas, rectángulo interior con entrelazos de dos hilos que forman diversas figuras geométricas decoradas por hierros de espirales y aldinos azurados que enmarcan en la tapa delantera, un óvalo central con mosaico pintado y la leyenda patriae et amicis en su interior y en la trasera, el año de edición; lomo con cinco nervios cuajados; cantos y cortes dorados. image (vol. 1) [link])


(35) Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De Lucii Sergii Catilinae conjuratione, ac bello Jugurthino historiae cum aliis quibusdam, quae sequens indicabit pagella (Lyon: Antoine Vincent, 1561)

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Pierre Robinet (1656-1738), inscription recording his donation to
● Collège Royal, du Séminaire Épiscopal, Strasbourg, “Coll. Reg. Arg. S.J., ex dono R.P. Petri Robinet Regi Cathol. à Confession” (Schlaefli)
● Strassburg, Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire, 1 Ih 18

literature
Schlaefli, op. cit., no. 2683 (“Reliure à Grolier de 1568”)


(36) Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Opera, quae extant omnia. Cum scholiis, beati Rhenani in ludum de morte Claudii Caesaris, Rhodolphi Agricolae in declamationes aliquot commentariis ac Fernandi Pinciani in universum opus castigationibus (Lyon: Sébastien Gryphe, 1555) [FB 86116, 8vo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Granada, Biblioteca Universitaria Hospital Real, A-011-354 (opac [link] super-libris con la inscripción “Patriae et amicis” y en tapa posterior “mdlxviii”; image [link])


(37) Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvarum libri V; Thebaidos libri XII; Achilleidos libri II (Lyon: Heirs of Sébastien Gryphe, 1559) [FB 86919, 16mo]

provenance
● unidentified owner using motto “Patriae et Amicis” (Paul Pfintzing?)
● Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé (1769-1833) (?) [Ivoire: “Un ex-libris manuscrit en partie effacé mais visible à la lampe de Wood “de Chenedollé”, Paris août 1814. Probablement l’exemplaire du poète romantique Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé (1765-1833)”]
● Ivoire & Bernard Portheault, Livres anciens & modernes, Chartres, 6 March 2021, lot 320 (“In-16 en plein veau blond aux plats décorés d’un triple encadrement de filets dorés, de rinceaux en écoinçons, d’un semis de fleurettes et d’un médaillon central à motifs azurés portant l’inscription ‘Patriae et Amicis’ (1er plat) et la date “M. D. LXVIII” (2nd plat), dos à nerfs très orné, coupes ciselées, tranches dorées … Exemplaire réglé … Intéressante reliure de type lyonnaise du XVIe siècle”) [online, link])