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Daniel Karner’s Library
Some thirty-two volumes (4 manuscripts, 20 incunables, and 8 later books) are reported with the ownership inscription in a proud hand “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris, Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel” and often a date. If the dates in these inscriptions should be the actual dates of acquisition, then Daniel Karner began to build his library around 1495, and ceased to add to it – or ceased to inscribe his name – around 1521.1 From the style of his inscriptions, and the steady pace of acquisition, Daniel Karner appears to have been a determined collector in possession of a sizeable library.
Daniel Karner matriculated at Heidelberg university on 5 October 1496, as a citizen of Donauwörth (Werdea, Werd, Wörth) in the diocese of Augsburg; he became baccalaureus in artibus on 10 July 1498.2 He may have been a son of the “Kunrad Karner, Bürger zu Werd,” who on 21 February 1451 donated a perpetual altar light for the Kapelle St Lazarus, in Hl. Dreifaltigkeit im Bürgerspital, Donauwörth,3 and died around 1487.4 One of Daniel’s books (a copy of the 1477 Johannes de Turrecremata, with an ownership entry dated 1507) displays his initials “D C” and armorial insignia within a border decorating the opening page.5 In 1510, Daniel became a secular canon in the collegiate monastery of St Andreas, Freising, and in 1522 was its dean. He was a Lektor in Ingolstadt and is recorded in tax records as living in there in 1516.6 Daniel died on 15 May 1534 and was interred in the Stiftskirche St. Andreas in Freising.
Ms Palmieri (no. A3) - Inscription by Karner (undated) (British Library, link)
1496 Pius II (no. B14) - Inscription by Karner dated 1495; second inscription of Matthäus Ehem (1491-1557) (Poznań, link)
April 1502 Celtis (no. C3) - Inscription by Karner dated 1501 (Augsburg, link)
1495 Biblia Latina (no. B2) - Inscription by Karner dated 1503 (BSB, link)
1477 Turrecremata (no. B19) - Inscription by Karner dated 1507 (Würzburg, UB)
1477 Turrecremata (no. B19) - Daniel Karner’s armorial insignia (Würzburg, UB)
1516 Gregorius I (no. C5) – Inscription by Karnere dated 1521 (Augsburg, link)
The sources of Daniel’s books are mostly unknown. Two volumes contain additional inscriptions, indicating they were bequests in 1507 of Andreas Ziremperger (Ziremberger, Zierenberger), an auditor of the Rota, and a proctor of the penitentiary in the Roman Curia (1471-1496),7 who at various times was canon of Augsburg cathedral and of St.-Andreas-Stift in Freising, then Propst des Kanonikerstifts St. Veit in Freising, until his death on 20 December 1507.8 One of the two volumes he gifted to Daniel is a manuscript of Matteo Palmieri, De temporibus, written for Marco de Barbo, bishop of Treviso from 1455 and cardinal from 1467;9 the other is a copy of the 1470 Sweynheym & Pannartz Thomas Aquinas.10 Several books are in bindings made in anonymous Augsburg workshops;11 if they were commissioned by Daniel, he declined to have any sign of his ownership on their covers. Daniel’s three Aldines were rebound by later owners.
Surprisingly, the books contain no evidence of donation to Daniel’s collegiate chapter, or to another ecclesiastical foundation. Many passed into other hands at early dates. Daniel’s copy of the 1491 Plato contains an additional inscription, “Lucerna pedibus meis Verbum tuum [Psalm 119, verse 105] Io. Iung. V[ir] I.[llustris]. Doctor. Numbergen & Frisingen. Cano. S. Gertudis Augusten prepositus”. Johann Jung was a son of the physician Johann Jung and of his second wife, Maria Karner, presumably a relation of Daniel’s.12 As Jung was Propst von St. Gertrud in Augsburg from 1525-1532,13 he presumably took possession of the book before Daniel’s death. The Pius II bears the ownership inscription of the Augsburg patrician Matthäus Ehem (1491-1557). The aforementioned manuscript of Palmieri was in the market in 1719/1720, when it was acquired on the Continent by agents working for Edward, Lord Harley.
1. Karner wrote “1495” in the Pius II (the book was published 17 May 1496), “1501” in the Celtes (published April 1502), and “1507” in Manuzio’s grammar (published April 1508). Four inscriptions appear to be undated. Dates in inscriptions, 1495: Pius II (B14). 1500: Aristotles (B1); Eutropius (B7). 1501: Celtis (C3). 1503: Bible (B2); Catullus (C2); Cicero (B4); Macrobius (B11); Ptolomaeus (B16). 1505: Guido (B9). 1506: Seneca (B17). 1507: Ms Albertus Magnus (A1); Ms Alvarus Pelagius (A2); Ms Matteo Palmieri (A3); Ms Leo Johannes (A4); Crastone (B5); Perottus (B13); Turrecremata (B19); Varro (B20); Boetius (C1); Manuzio (C6). 1508: Plinius (C7). 1510: Plato (B15). 1515 Dionysius (B6). 1517: Deuschlein (C4); Orosius (B12). 1521: Gregorius (C5). Undated: Bonatus (B3); Fiocchi (B8); Justinian (B10); Thomas Aquinas (B18), Silius Italicus (C8).
2. Gustav Toepke, Die Matrikel der Universität Heidelberg von 1386 bis 1662. Erster Theil von 1386 bis 1553 (Heidelberg 1884), p.422 (“[1496] Daniel Karner de Werdea dyoc. Augustensis 5[Octobris] … [footnote] b. art. v. mod. 10/7 1498”) [link].
3. Anton Steichele, Das Bisthum Augsburg, historisch und statistisch beschrieben, Dritter Band (Augsburg 1872), pp.821, 1124.
4. Maria Zelzer, Geschichte der Stadt Donauwörth von den Anfängen bis 1618 (Donauwörth [1958]), p.294 (also citing a daughter, Martha). A “Conradus Karner de Werdea” matriculated at Ingolstadt on 2 November 1473 (Götz Freiherrn von Pölnitz, Die Matrikel der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Ingolstadt-Landshut-München, Munich 1937, p.43). Another possible relative of Daniel’s is the “Hanns Karner von Donauwörth”, a painter-member of the St. Lukas-Bruderschaft, who painted the clockface of Würzburg cathedral in 1507 [link, link].
5. The page is illustrated by Gottfried Mälzer, Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (Würzburg 1986), Pl. 19. The same insignia was recorded in 1734 by Joseph Anton Leopold Oefele on Daniel’s tomb (destroyed 1804); see Deutsche Inschriften online (arms described as “Gespalten, darüber ein geviertelter Balken, Felder 2 und 3 in den Farben der Felder”) [link]. This insignia has not been traced in in Siebmacher’s Grosses und allgemeines Wappenbuch (Bürgerliches Wappenbuch).
6. The Steuerbuch von 1516 (Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt, B 43), cited by Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (Wiesbaden 1966), no. 2121 (“domus Danielis Karners totum ½ gulden totum”).
7. Thomas Frenz, Die Kanzlei der Päpste der Hochrenaissance 1471-1527 (Tübingen 1986), no. 147; see Repertorium Officiorum Romane Curie (rorc) database (q.v. Ziremperger) [link].
8. Albert Haemmerle, Die Canoniker des hohen Domstiftes zu Augsburg bis zur Saecularisation ([Zurich] 1935), p.198 no. 988.
9. London, British Library, Harley Ms 3677. The manuscript is inscribed “Ex legato quond bo: me: Andreas Ziremberger”; and “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel” with monogram and date 1507 on f.1.
10. Another of Ziremberger’s bequests was a copy of Nicolas de Lyra Quatuor posteriora Postillae (Rome 1472), bequeathed to the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg; see Notitia historico-litteraria de libris ab artis typographicæ inventione vsqve ad annvm MCCCCLXXVIIII. impressis: in Bibliotheca liberi, ac imperialis monasterii ad SS. Vdalricvm et Afram Avgvstæ extantibvs (Augsburg 1788), p.143.
11. Cf. Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Wiesbaden 1974), no. 163: 1496 Aristoteles (Kyriss 86; Einbanddatenbank w002155, workshop active ca 1473-1530), no. 613: 1489 Guido de Columna (Kyriss 91; Einbanddatenbank w002089, active 1482-1532), no. 1589: 1494 Perottus (bound with books printed 1504, 1507; Kyriss 79; Einbanddatenbank w002121, active 1482-1532). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, Band 1: A-Brev (Wiesbaden 1988), Ink B474,2 (Kyriss 79).
12. Carl Meichelbeck, Geschichte der Stadt Freising und ihrer Bischöfe, edited by Anton Baumgärtner (Freising 1854), p.611.
13. See Gustav Karl Knod, Deutsche Studenten in Bologna (1289-1562) Biographischer Index zu den Acta nationis germanicae Universitatis bononiensis (Berlin 1889), no. 1625; however, Jung’s manuscript prayer book, dated 1517-1518, contains a miniature lettered “Joannes Jung praepositus S. Gertrudis Augustae et canonicis frisingensis J.V.D.” (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 28801) [link].
daniel karner’s library
a. Manuscripts
(A1) Ms Alberti Magni thesaurus pauperum, in quattuor partes divisus. Philosophia dividitur in tres partes (15th century)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris, Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel.M. D. VII.”
● Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 19. 36. Aug. 4° (Handschriftendatenbank, link)
literature
Otto von Heinemann, Die Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel. Abt. 2, Die Augusteischen Handschriften (Wolfenbüttel 1890-1903), 3217
(A2) Ms Alvarus Pelagius, Speculum regum (second half of the 15th century)
provenance
● Pedro Ferriz (1415-1478), bishop of Tarazona (near Zaragoza, Spain), created cardinal of San Sisto in the consistory of 1476
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris, Ingolstatensis Carnerius Daniel. M. D. VII.” (f. 1)
● Marcus Welser (1558-1614)
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 3568 (mirabile, link)
literature
Erwin Rauner, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Die Handschriften aus Augsburger Bibliotheken. Band 1: Stadtbibliothek (Wiesbaden 2007), p.283 [link]
Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt, Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Band 6 Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Teil. 2 Von der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts bis um 1540 (Wiesbaden 2014), no. 244 & Abb. 437.
(A3) Ms Matteo Palmieri, De temporibus (Italy, last quarter of the 15th century)
provenance
● Marco de Barbo, bishop of Treviso (from 1455) and cardinal (from 1467), armorial insignia (f. 2)
● Andreas Ziremperger (d. 1499), inscription “Ex legato quond bo: me: Andreas Ziremberger” (f. 1)
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel” with monogram and date 1507 (f. 1)
● Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 2nd earl of Oxford, inscribed by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley “20 Februarij 1719/20”
● Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, duchess of Portland (1715- 1785), sold in 1753
● London, British Library, Harley Mss, 3677 (opac, link)
literature
Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London 1808-1812), III, no. 3677
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London 1972), pp.123, 368, 254
(A4) Ms Leo Johannes de Leonibus Perusinus, De philosophico et theologico sapiente (Northern Italy?, second half of the 15th century)
provenance
● Andreas Ziremperger (d. 1499), inscription
● Daniel Karner, inscription, “Quis michi sit dominus, lector, si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M D VII” (Freckmann)
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6751 (manuscripta mediaevalia, link; mirabile, link)
literature
Anja Freckmann & Juliane Trede, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Die Papierhandschriften aus dem Domkapitel Freising III Clm 6473-6787 und Streubestände gleicher Provenienz sowie Handschriften aus weiteren Freisinger Klöstern und Stiften (Wiesbaden 2021), pp.488-490
b. Incunabula
(B1) Aristotles, Opera (Venice: Johannes & Gregorius de Gregoriis for Benedictus Fontana, 13 July 1496)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, “… Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel MD” (Hubay)
● St. Anna-Kollegium Augsburg (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Ink 997
literature
Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Wiesbaden 1974), no. 163 (“Holzdeckelband z. Teil mit gepreβtem Schweinsleder überzogen aus Augsburger Werkstatt (Kyriss 86).” [link]) [Kyriss 86 is Einbanddatenbank workshop w002155, active ca 1473 to 1530; link]
(B2) Biblia Latina (Basel: Johan Froben 27 October 1495)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Qius mihi sit Dominus lectore si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M.D.III” (image, link)
● Andreas Maier, inscription “Sum ex libris Andreae Maieri” [of Lenting (Ingolstadt), student at Ingolstadt in 1554]
● Johann Jakob Baier (1677-1735), exlibris
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 8° Inc. c.a. 215 [image, link]
literature
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Inkunabelkatalog: BSB Ink (Wiesbaden 1988), B-474,2 (“Daniel Carnerius, Ingolstadt, 1503 - Andrea Maier - Johann Jakob Baier (Exlibris: Warnecke 93). Spätgotischer Kalblederband auf Pappe (Inkunabelmakulatur), gebunden in Augsburg (Kyriss 79)”) [link]
(B3) Guido Bonatus, Decem tractatus astronomiae (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 26 March 1491)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit dominis, lector, si forte requiris Ingolstattensis, Carnerius Daniel” (Ignácztól, no date transcribed)
● Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Inc. 788 (opac, link)
literature
Horváth Ignácztól, “A Magyar Nemzeti Muzeumi Konyvtar Osnyomtatvanyainak jegyzekeno” in Magyar Könyvszemle 15 (1894), pp.120-178 (p.120 no. 367) [link]
(B4) Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rhetorica ad C. Herennium (Venice: Philippus Pincius, 8 July 1496)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M. D. III.’” (Hellebrant)
● Budapest, Academy
literature
Árpád Hellebrant, Catalogus librorum saeculo XV impressorum quot quot in bibliotheca academiae litterarum hungaricae asservantur (Budapest 1886), no. 277 (“F. 1a haec annotatio legitur: ‘Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M. D. III.’”) [link]
“Incunaboli di origine italiana nella Biblioteca dell’Accademia ungherese delle Scienze a Budapest” in La Bibliofilía 17 (May-June 1915), pp.54-82 (p.62 no. 128)
(B5) Giovanni Crastone, Lexicon Graeco-latinum (Modena: Dionysius Betrtochus, 20 October 1499)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mini sit Domus [...] si forte requiris Ingolstatensis: Carnerius Daniel M.D.VII” (provenio)
● Benedictine monastery, Ochsenhausen (Baden-Württemberg), inscription “Slg. Biblioth. Ochsenhusan” (provenio)
● Fürsten von Metternich (provenio)
● Prague, National Museum Library, Kynžvart 19 C 19 (provenio, link)
literature
Jitka Šimáková & Jaroslav Vrchotka, Katalog prvotisků Knihovny Národního muzea v Praze a zámeckých a hradních knihoven v České republice (Prague 2001), no. 642
(B6) Dionysius Periegetes, De situ orbis (Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, 1498)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus Lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis: Carnerius Daniel MDXV”
● Christoph Konrad Neithard, inscription “Christoph. Cunrat. Neithardt”
● Königliche Öffentliche Bibliothek, Stuttgart, inkstamp [founded 1765 in Ludwigsburg, in 1777 to Stuttgart, since 1912 Württembergische Landesbibliothek]
● Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Inc.qt.6229 (Inkunabel-Katalog deutscher Bibliotheken / inka, link)
(B7) Eutropius, Breviarium historiae Romanae (Rome: Georg Lauer, 20 May 1471)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus Lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis: Carnerius Daniel M. D”
● Benediktinerkloster Weingarten 1659 (inka)
● “Königl. Württembergische Hofbibliothek”, inkstamp (inka)
● Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Inc.fol.6726(HB) (inka, link)
(B8) Andrea Fiocchi, De potestatibus Romanis (Venice: Massimo Butrici, ca 1491), bound with Iulius Pomponius Laetus, Opera pomponii laeti. Romanae historiae compendium (Strassburg: Matthias Schürer, 1510), bound with Francesco Albertini, Opusculum de mirabilibus nouae & ueteris vrbis Romae editum a Francisco de Albertinis clerico Florentino dedicatumque Iulio secundo Pon. Max (Rome: Giacomo Mazzocchi, 4 February 1510), bound with Marcus Valerius Probus, In Hoc Libello Svbiecta Continentvr Valerij probi interpretamenta litterarum singulari[um] in antiquitatibus Romanis cum plerisq[ue] circa singulas litteras additionibus … Pomponii Laeti Libellvs De Romanorvm Magistratibvs. Idem de Sacerdotijs Ro. Idem de diuersis Legibus Ro. (Oppenheim: Jacob Köbel, 1510)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris: Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel” (inka, link; no date transcribed)
● Christoph Konrad Nithard, inscription “Ex libris Christophori Cunradi Nithardi Anno 1590”
● Königliche Öffentliche Bibliothek, Stuttgart, inkstamp
● Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Inc.qt.6957 (inka Halbband, Schweinsleder. Streicheisenlinien, Einzel- und Rollenstempel (Rosetten, Laubstab-Rolle) [link]
(B9) Guido de Columna, Historia destructionis Troiae (Stassburg: Printer of Jordanus de Quedlinburg, 1489)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dns lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M. D. V.” (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Karmelitenkloster St Anna (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Ink 767
literature
Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Wiesbaden 1974), no. 613 (“Holzdeckelband z. Teil mit Kalbleder uberzogen aus Augsburger Werkstatt (Kyriss 91)”) [link] [Einbanddatenbank w002089 active 1473-1498, link]
(B10) Justinian I, Novellae constitutiones (Venice: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis, 5 April 1487)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription, date not transcribed
● Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, W III 290 (Inkunabelzensus Österreich, link)
literature
Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, “Verzeichnis der in Handschriften, Inkunabeln, Frühdrucken und Rara genannten Vorbesitzer” (online, link)
(B11) Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia (Venice: Philippus Pincius, 29 October 1500)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription dated 1503
● Augsburg, Stadtbibliothek
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2° Inc. c.a. 3898
literature
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Inkunabelkatalog: BSB Ink (Wiesbaden 1993), M-5 (“Daniel Carnerius, Lektor, aus Ingolstadt, 1503 - Augsburg, Stadtbibliothek. Spätgotischer Holzdeckelband, teilweise mit Schweinsleder bezogen, darauf Einzelstempel in Blindpressung)
(B12) Paulus Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos (Venice: Bernardino Vitali, 12 October 1500)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel MDXVII” (Sallander)
● Fürstbischöfliche Hofbibliothek, Eichstätt, inscription “Ad bibl. aul. Eystettensis” (Sallander)
● Erik Wirén (1877-1958), exlibris (Sallander)
● Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Uka Ink. 35b:788 Fol. min.
literature
Hans Sallander, Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Universitätsbibliothek zu Uppsala. Neuerwerbungen der Jahre 1954-1964 nebst Kurztitelverzeichnis sämtlicher Inkunabeln in der Universitätsbibliothek (Uppsala, 1965), 2364
(B13) Nicolaus Perottus, Cornucopiae linguae latinae (Venice: Philippus Pincius, 1494), bound with Domenico Nani Mirabelli, Polyanthea. Opus suauissimis floribus exornatum (Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1507), bound with Lorenzo Valla, Hoc in volumine hec continentur. Laurentii Vallensis Elegantiae de lingua Latina (Venice: Albertino da Lessona, 1504)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “… Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel M D VII” (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Karmelitenkloster St Anna (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Ink 958
literature
Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Wiesbaden 1974), no.1589 (“Holzdeckelband z. Hälfte mit Schweinsleder überzogen aus Augsburger Werkstatt (Kyriss 79)”) [Einbanddatenbank w002121, active 1482-1532; link]
(B14) Pius II, Epistolae familiares (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 May 1496)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Qius mihi sit Dominus lectore si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. MCCCCXCV” on A2 recto (image, link)
● Matthäus Ehem (1491-1557), inscription
● Poznań, Biblioteka Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, 40146. II
(B15) Plato, Opera (Venice: Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona & Simon de Luere, for Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 13 August 1491)
provenance
● Johann Jung, inscription “Lucerna pedibus meis Verbum tuum Io. Iung. V[ir] I.[llustris]. Doctor. Numbergen & Frisingen. Cano. S. Gertudis Augusten prepositus” on front pastedown (mei)
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel M.D.X.” (mei)
● Munich, court library, inscription “Duplum Biblioth. regiae Monacensis” on front pastedown (mei)
● Athens, National Library, ΕΦ. 9889 (mei, link)
literature
Dennis E. Rhodes, Incunabula in Greece: a first census (1980), P-21 (shelfmark as ΕΦ. 4035)
Yannis Kokkonas, Catalogue of Incunabula in the National Library of Greece, including copies in the Benaki Museum (Athens 1983), no. 92 [link]
(B16) Claudius Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia (Rome: Arnoldus Buckinck, 10 October 1478)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription dated 1503 (BSB Ink)
● Munich, court library, exlibris
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2° Inc. c.a. 776s
literature
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Inkunabelkatalog: BSB Ink (Wiesbaden 1998), P-858 (“Daniel Carnerius, Ingolstadt 1503 - Exlibris der königlichen Bibliothek München (Dreßler F5). Neu-restaurierter Pappband mit Buntpapierbezug, Kalblederrücken und -ecken, 19 Jh.)
(B17) Seneca, Tragoediae (Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 7 April 1498), bound with Titus Lucretius Carus, In Carum Lucretium poetam commentarii a Joanne Baptista Pio editi codice Lucretiano diligenter emendato (Paris: Josse Bade & Jean Petit, August 1514)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit dominus lector si forte requiris, Ingolstadtensis Carnerius Daniel. MDVI.” (opac)
● Thomas Lebczelter Wlmensis. F. R. Ben. Carpfoii Lipsiae in dec. 1668. ex Bibliotheca domini Andreae Rivini (opac)
● Boldogkő-Váralja Library (opac)
● Budapest, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Inc. 190 (1-2) (opac, link, link)
(B18) Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea super quattuor Evangelistas (Rome: Konrad Sweynheym & Arnold Pannartz, 1470)
provenance
● presumably Luca Mellini (1498-1507), Bishop of Montefeltro (Hubay)
● Andreas Ziremperger, inscription “Andree Ziremperger Legato 1507” (Hubay)
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel” (Hubay, no date transcribed)
● Augsburg, Jesuitenkolleg St. Salvator (Hubay)
● Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 2° Ink 278/I-II
literature
Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (Wiesbaden 1974), no. 1972 (“Bl. 2a der beiden Bände mit Goldgrundinitiale und einer mit Blumen gezierten Rankenleiste geschmückt; unten unbekanntes Wappen in Lorbeerkranz … Perg.- Urkunde des Lucas episc. Feretranus (1498-1507) mit Abschrift des Breve von Innocenz VIII. vom 16 Dez. 1486 an Andreas Ziremperger, decr. doct. Pfarrer in Teissendorf (Kreis Laufen), als Spiegel (Bd. I). Zwei Kalblederbände aus italienischer Werkstatt des 15.. Jhs.”) [link]
(B19) Johannes de Turrecremata, Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis (Rome: Johannes Schurener de Bopardia, 30 April 1477)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel M.D.VII.” (Mälzer)
● Würzburg, Bibliotheca Academica Herbipolensis, inscription “Bibl. Acad. Herbipol.” (Mälzer)
● Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, I.t.f. 230 (inka, link)
literature
Ilona Hubay, Incunabula der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (Wiesbaden 1966), no. 2121
Gottfried Mälzer, “Die Vorbesitxer der Würzburger Inkunabeln” in Philobiblon 27 (1983), pp.211-228 (p.22 & Abb. 6)
Gottfried Mälzer, Die Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (Würzburg 1986), Pl. 19 (illuminated title-border, with “Quis mihi …” inscription, and armorial, from I.t.f 230)
Lore Sprandel-Krafft, Die spätgotischen Einbände an den Inkunabeln der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg (Würzburg 2000), p.285 (“Halblederband”, “Granatapfel offen …Ranke, Rolle mit Rosetten … Rautengerank mit Knorpeln”; “Daniel Carnerius aus Ingolstadt, sein Wappen zeigt zwei diagonal gesetzte weiße Rechtecke auf schwarzen Grund (among “Nicht identifizierbare Einbände”)
(B20) Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua latina (Rome: Georg Sachsel & Bartholomaeus Golsch, 1474)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, Ingolstadt, inscription dated 1507
● Augsburg, Jesuitenkolleg St. Salvator
● Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2° Inc. s.a. 1192
literature
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Inkunabelkatalog: BSB Ink (Wiesbaden 2000), V-56 (“Daniel Carnerius, Ingolstadt, 1507 - Augsburg, Jesuitenkolleg. Kalblederband auf Pappe mit Goldumrahmung, 18. Jh.”)
c. Later books
(C1) Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, Boethius De philosophiae consolatione (Florence: Filippo Giunta, December 1507)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit dominus lector si forte requiris: Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel M.D.VII.” on title-page
● Moirandat, Auktion 12: Bücher und Handschriften des 13. bis 17. Jahrhunderts, Basel, 30 October 2015, lot 25 [link]
(C2) Gaius Valerius Catullus, Catullus. Tibullus. Propertius (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, January 1502)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription dated 1503
● Swann Galleries, Early printed books (lots 1-200); numismatics, literature, bibles, science & medicine, architecture, military, music, etc; 19th century literature (lots 201-end), New York, 19 April 1984, lot 5
● unidentified owner - bought in sale ($325) [BAR 81 p.104, “Ms bkplt. of Carnerius Daniel of Ingolstadt (1503)”]
(C3) Konrad Celtis, Conradi Celtis Protvcii Primi Inter Germanos Imperatoriis Manibvs Poete Lavreati Qvatvor Libri Amorvm Secvndvm Qvatvor Latera Germanie Feliciter Incipivnt (Nuremberg: Printer for the Sodalitas Celtica, April 1502)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Qius mihi sit Dominus lectore si forte requiris Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. MDI”
● Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 4 NL 92 [digitised, link; Augsburg opac, link]
(C4) Johannes Deuschlein, Repertorium siue Inuentarium super undecim partes diui Aurelij Augustini editum ab Joh. Teuschlein de Frickenhausen (Nuremberg: Friedrich Pypus & Johann Koberger, 1517)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit dominus lector si forte requiris. Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M.D. XVII”
● Jacques Rosenthal, Catalogue 67: Illustrierte Bücher des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts insbesondere Holzschnittwerke des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Teil II: Boccaccio-Fischart (Munich 1914), item 446 (“Ais de bois demi-recouv. de peau de truie estampé, ferms. Sur le titre la note ancienne: Quis mihi sit dominus lector si forte requiris. Ingolstattensis Carnerius Daniel. M.D. XVII. Avec un régistre de ff. probablement écrit par la même.”) [link]
(C5) Gregorius I, Homelie Divi Gregorii super Ezechielem (Lyon: Simon Bevilacqua, 1516)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit D[omi]n[u]s Lector si forte requiris Ingolstattensis: Carnerius Daniel MDXXI” [image, link]
● Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Th Kv L 86
(C6) Aldo Manuzio, Aldi Manutii Romani Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, April 1508)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription “Quis mihi sit Dñs lector si forte requiris Ingolstatensis Carnerius; Daniel. M.D. VII” (Sotheby’s)
● Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), purchased 1789
● John Edmund Severne (1826-1899)
● Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Catalogue of the extensive & valuable library collected at the end of the last and beginning of the present century by Michael Wodhull … the property of J.E. Severne, Esq. M.P. of Thenford House, Banbury, Northamptonshire, London, 11-21 January 1886, lot 1674 (“fine copy in calf … This copy must have been issued in 1507, as the original owner has written on title-page ‘Quis mihi sit Dñs lector si forte requiris Ingolstatensis Carnerius; Daniel. M.D. VII.’”) [there is no edition dated 1507, that date was wrongly derived from the dedication]
● Oxford, Bodleian Library
literature
Kristian Jensen, “The Latin grammar of Aldus Manutius and its fortuna” in Aldus Manutius and Renaissance culture (Florence 1998), pp.247-285 (p.275: “Bodley’s copy of the 1508 edition has the ownership inscription of Daniel Carnerius, from Ingolstadt, curiously dated 1507”)
(C7) Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistolarum libri decem in quibus multae habentur epistolae non ante impressae. Tum graeca correcta, et suis locis restituta, atque reiectis adulterinis, uera reposita. Item fragmentatae epistolae, integrae factae. In medio etiam epistolae libri octaui de Clitumno fonte non solum uertici calx additus, et calci uertex, sed decem quoque epistolae interpositae … Eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano … Eiusdem De viris illustribus in re militari, et in administranda rep. Suetonii Tranquilli De claris grammaticis et rhetorib. Iulii Obsequentis Prodigiorum liber. Epistolae decimi libri ad Traianum probantur esse Plinii in sequenti epistola. Inibi etiam liber de viris illustribus, non Tranquilli, sed Plinii esse… (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, November 1508)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, “Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstatensis Carnerius; Daniel M.D.VIII.” (Barnard)
● unidentified owner, armorial stamp (sénestrochère tenant hallebarde, soutenu d’un mont, accompagné d’une étoile) on endleaf (17-18C)
● Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), exlibris with motto “Vigilantibus”
● Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), with stamp: Dalmeny Park, Edinburgh-Sept. 1898 [this stamp not among “Rosebery’s library-specific bookplates, book-labels and book stamps” illustrated by Brian Hillyard, “Rosebery as book collector” in Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 7 (2012), pp.71-114, fig.7]
● P.M. Barnard, Catalogue 36: Illustrated catalogue of books from the presses of fifteenth century printers (Tunbridge Wells [1916]), item 86 (£2 12s; “It is very seldom that one comes across Aldines with the initials, etc. filled in in red or in red and blue as in this copy; they were evidently intended to be so. On the title the first owner has written his name: ‘Quis mihi sit Dominus lector si forte requiris Ingolstatensis Carnerius; Daniel M.D.VIII.’ Vellum”)
● Gerald Poynton Mander (1885-1951), supralibros, exlibris [erroneously as “Poynter” by Needham; see Toronto database for his armorial stamp, link]
● Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of printed books with a few manuscripts comprising a selected portion of the library of the late Gerald P. Mander, Esq, London, 22-24 February 1954, lot 1 (“modern vellum, with the Mander arms on the upper cover, inscription dated 1508 by the original owner, Carnerius Daniel of Ingolstadt, on title, bookplate of the Earl of Gosford”) [RBH Carron-1]
● Horace G. Commin, Bournemouth - bought in sale (£5 10s)
● Hamill & Barker, Chicago
● T. Kimball Brooker, purchased from the above, 1969 [Bibliotheca Brookeriana #0133; to be offered by Sotheby’s in autumn 2024]
(C8) Silius Italicus, Silij Italici Opus de secundo Bello Punico (Lyon: Barthélemy Trot, January 1514)
provenance
● Daniel Karner, inscription, no date transcribed (opac)
● George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834)
● Manchester, Rylands, 19658 (opac Two line MS [ownership?] inscription at head of title-page recto: Quis [?] Ingo[?]tarensis Carnerius d[?]. … Nineteenth-century full yellow paper over boards; smooth spine, with black leather labels: Silius Italicus / 1514; all edges sprinkled red; nineteenth-century gilt monogram of The John Rylands Library (JR in roundel) stamped on front cover) [link]