Jean Antoine de Lescure
Many elements of Jean Antoine de Lescure’s biography remain uncertain. He was born at Montréal, near Carcassone (Aude), probably about 1534, studied canon and civil law successively in Toulouse, Cahors, Valence and Grenoble, received his doctorate at Grenoble on 6 June 1557, and was immediately admitted to the University College.3 Lescure had been among the first students of Jacques Cujas at Toulouse. When in 1573 Cujas sought nomination to the Parlement du Dauphiné, Lescure gave a deposition in his favour, in which he describes himself as about thirty-nine years old, a senior lawyer in the Parlement (Advocat consistorial en la Cour de ce pais de Dauphiné), and declares that he had studied with Cujas at Toulouse in the years 1547-1549.4 In 1554, Cujas followed a Toulouse colleague, the Portuguese humanist-jurist António de Gouveia, to the neighbouring (and rival) University at Cahors. Lescure seems to have joined them there, and to have accompanied Gouveia not long after to the University at Valence. After one academic year, Gouveia broke his three-year contract, and in the autumn of 1555 accepted the chair of law at the University of Grenoble. Lescure is first recorded in Grenoble on 1 December 1555, as a student of canon and civil law.5 On 22 February 1557, he was assigned a text of Roman law (24. C. III, 87, familiae erciscundae), and given two months to explain it. After presenting and defending his work, and arguing publicly over three days, Lescure was received as an associate and ordinary regent in the University. António de Gouveia and Hugues de Vermond are named as Lescure’s doctoral supervisors. Lescure was still associated with the university on 26 September 1561.6 After suppression of the university, in 1565, he apparently remained in Grenoble, where in November 1574 he filed before its court royal letters patent on behalf of Cujas.7
Lescure reappears in 1583, when he received a three-year appointment to the first chair of law at the University of Valence.8 By this date he had acquired the title of Conseiller et maître des requêtes de la reine-mère (Catherine de’ Medici). Talk of him returning to teach at Valence in 1591 came to naught;9 the year of his death seems unknown. A marriage to Jeanne de Bonvert produced a least one son, who was sent to Cujas for instruction,10 and a daughter, Angèle, who married, around 1584, Modestin de Vallambert, a lawyer, probably son of a colleague of her father.11 At least two volumes from Lescure’s library were sold by Lescure’s heirs to Claude Expilly (1561-1636), admitted to the Parlement de Grenoble in 1583, and a passionate bibliophile, with the pleasant habit of marking his books with the place and date of purchase.
Two of the books in our List below are presumably Lescure’s schoolbooks, copies of a commentary written by his doctoral mentor, António de Gouveia, on Cicero’s Topica, with appended explanation of the law Imperium, in the Digest (de juridictione omnium judicum), published at Paris in 1545. One of the copies bears Lescure’s annotations (no. 7). Three books appear to be souvenirs of a visit Lescure made to Rome in February-April 1580. There he acquired Aldine editions of Crastone’s Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek lexica, Martialis’ Epigrammata, and the collected works of the poet Statius. This last work contains the “Orthographia”, a glossary of Greek words used by Statius (compiled by Aldo Manuzio), and suggests that Lescure was then learning (or improving) his Greek.
As additional volumes from Lescure’s library are recovered, the breadth and ambition of his intellectual pursuits (and his mastery of Greek) may come into sharper focus. Biographical details are also needed. A sylloge assembled by Scaliger about 1588 (Leiden, Universiteit, Ms Papenbroeck 5, p.3) includes a stone lettered: Fortunis L(ucius) Surius Iucundus S(olvit) L(ibens) M(erito), which Scaliger had seen “in agro Gratianopolitano in praetorio Ant. Lescurii I.C.”.12 Was Lescure an active antiquarian? Might this have been his motivation for travelling to Rome in 1580?
1. Africanus Lescurii I.C. Ad P. Gilbertum Mallocium V.C. In litigiosum legem Frater a fratre, De condictione indebiti (Lyon: Charles Pesnot, 1574). The work is dedicated by Lescure to Pierre-Gilbert Malloc, appointed councillor of the Parlement of Grenoble in 1568. Jacques Cujas, Jacobi Cujacii Jurisconsulti In legem frater a fratre, Dig. de condictione indebiti commentarius. Francisci Hotomani Jurisconsulti ineandem legem vetus renovata disputatio ([Geneva: Henri Estienne], 1573). Both works respond to the treatise by François Hotman, Africanus, sive Interpretatio L. Frater à fratre, De condict. indeb. (Strassburg: Wendelin Rihel, 1555). Hotman immediately replied in the Quaestionum illustrium liber … item, appendix adversus novam eiusdem legis interpretationem, qua nuper Lescurius vir eruditissimus promulgavit in suo Africano: qui et ipse huic appendici additus est, published at Lyon in 1576, but its appendix dated Grenoble, 7 February 1574.
2. (a) I. Ant. Lescurii Iurisc. Antecess Valentini De iurisdictione. Ad Kar. Leberonem Pontificem Comitemq. Valentinum & Diensem (Lyon: Barthélemy Honorat, 1585), dedicated (October 1584) to Charles de Leberon, nominated bishop of Valence in 1579. António de Gouveia had published a work on the same topic (Toulouse: Guyon Boudeville & Jean Molinier, 1551 [1552]), in reply to one by Eguinaire François, Baron de Kerlouan. (b) I. Ant. Lescurii Iurisc. Antecess. Valent. Lex lecta. Ad I. Belleurum Altifortium, sacrarum regis cognitionum consiliarium, Dalphinatúsque praesidem (Lyon: Barthélemy Honorat, 1585). This work is dedicated (October 1584) to Jean de Bellièvre, Président au Parlement de Grenoble.
3. The diploma confirms Montréal as Lescure’s birthplace and refers to him “cum utriusque juris operam strenue dedisset decennio Tolose, Cadurci, Valentiae, Gratianopolis”. See Paul Fournier, “L’Ancienne Université de Grenoble” in Annales de l’Université de Grenoble 18 (1906), pp.318-375 (p.333 [link]); Raoul Busquet, “Documents relatifs à l’ancienne Université de Grenoble” in Annales de l’Université de Grenoble 18 (1906), pp.421-567 (p.513 no. 275 [link]). Lescure receives a short entry in Adolphe Rochas, Biographie du Dauphiné contenant l’histoire de tous les hommes remarquables de cette province (Paris 1860), II, p.53 [link]; he is not mentioned in the Dictionnaire historique des juristes français, XIIe-XXe siècle (Paris 2015).
4. Jacobi Cujacii J.C. praestantissimi Opera omnia in decem tomos distributa, ed. C.A. Fabrot (Naples 1758), I, sig. b3r [link]. Paul Frédéric Girard, “La jeunesse de Cujas (Toulouse, 1522-1554)” in Nouvelle revue historique de droit français et étranger 39 (1916), pp.[429]-504; 590-627 (pp.604-605 [link]). Girard discounts the possibility that Lescure might already have been in Toulouse in December 1544, when someone with his surname appeared as a witness for Cujas. Martial Mathieu, “Le professeur et les magistrats: la réception de Cujas au Parlement du Dauphiné” in Revue d’histoire des facultés de droit et de la culture juridique, du monde des juristes et du livre juridique 22 (2002), pp.7-32 (pp.19-20 [link]).
5. Busquet, op. cit., p.520 no. 314 [link]. Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, Antonio de Gouveia, professor de direito em Grenoble (Coimbra 1954), pp.22-23 (also printed in Boletim da Biblioteca da Universidade de Coimbra 22, 1955, pp.242-341), considers it almost certain (“É quase certo”) that Lescure accompanied António de Gouveia from Toulouse to Cahors to Valence to Grenoble.
6. Busquet, op. cit., p.506 no. 259bis (Liste de convocation pour une réunion du collège de l’Université, [link]).
7. Mathieu, op. cit., p.24. Two documents dated at Grenoble in November 1574 and signed by Lescure as a member of the court are published by Fabrot, op. cit., sig. c1r [link].
8. Joseph Cyprien Nadal, Histoire de l’Université de Valence (Valence 1861), pp.119-123 [link]. His contract (“Paches de conduicte de monsieur Me Jehan Anthoine de Lescure, premier docteur regent en l’Université de Valence”, 23 August 1583) is published by Marcel Fournier, “Notes et documents sur les professeurs de droit en France, IV: Le recrutement professoral et les conduites des professeurs de droit à l’université de Valence au XVIe siècle” in Nouvelle revue historique de droit français et étranger 19 (1895), pp.166-209 (pp.207-208 [link]).
9. Nadal, op. cit., pp.124-125 [link].
10. Ernst Spangenberg, Jacob Cujas und seine Zeitgenossen (Leipzig 1822), p.9.
11. Fournier, op. cit. 1906, p.333 [link].
12. Scaliger made his sylloge available to Jan Gruter, and the inscription belonging to Lescure was published in Gruter’s Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis romani in absolutissimum (Heidelberg 1602), p.LXXII [link]. It is referenced by modern scholars as Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: Inscriptiones Galliae Narbonensis Latinae (Berlin 1888), 2216; Inscriptions latines de Narbonnaise / 5-2, Vienne (Paris 2004), 352; Carte archéologique de la Gaule / L'Isère 38-1 (Paris 1994), p.84 (“Autel dédié aux Fortunes, de provenance non précisée (perdu)”). Bernard Rémy & Jean-Pascal Jospin, “Catalogue des inscriptions” in Grenoble à l’époque gallo-romaine d’après les inscriptions: Inscriptions latines de Grenoble et de son agglomération (Corenc, Gières, Échirolles, Eybens, Sassenage, Seyssinet-Pariset) (Grenoble 2013), pp.89-244.
manuscripts
(1) Manuscript (9th century, probably Burgundy, ff. 162): Institutiones of Justinianus with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius (f. 1r-2v; f. 161r-162v, fragments 14th century) - Lex Burgundionum (ff. 3r-21v) - Lex Salica (ff. 22r-32v) - Capitularia regum Francorum (ff. 32v-33v) - Isidorus Hispalensis episcopus, Etymologiarum libri XX (ff. 33v-37v) - Lex Romana Visigothorum (ff. 38v-149v, 151r-158v, 150r-v, 159r-160r)
BnF, Lat. 9653, f. 3r (detail) - Jo. Anton. Lescuri
BnF, Lat. 9653, f. 4r (detail) - Jo. Ant. Lescurii
BnF, Lat. 9653, f. 22r (detail) - Lescurii
BnF, Lat. 9653, f. 2r - Ab haeredibus Lescurii emptum habeo Claudius Expillius Consiliarius et Advocatus generalis Regius in senatu Gratianopolitano 1609
provenance
● Jean du Tillet (?), ca 1550 [According to Baluze the codex was used by Jean du Tillet around the year 1550]
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscriptions (ff. 3r, 4r, 4bisr, 22r)
● Claude Expilly (1561-1636), inscription “Ab haeredibus Lescurii emptum habeo Claudius Expillius consiliarius et advocatus generalis regius in senatu Gratianopolitano 1609” (f. 1r)
● Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 9653 (opac Au f. 4r, dans la marge interne, marque de possession ‘Jo(annis) Ant(onii) Lescurii’: Jean-Antoine Lescure actif au XVIe siècle. Ensuite, passa aux héritiers. Ayant appartenu à Claude Expilly, conseiller du roi et avocat au Sénat de Grenoble, ms. acheté aux héritiers de Jean-Antoine Lescure. Au f. IIv, portrait gravé de Claude Expilly daté de 1596, ‘Thomas de Lou fecit’. Au f. 1r, ex-libris ‘Ab haeredibus Lescurii emptum habeo Claudius Expillius consiliarius et advocatus generalis regius in senatu Gratianopolitano 1609’” [link])
selected literature
Étienne Baluze, Capitularia regum Francorum (Paris 1677), I, “Praefatio ad lectorem”, no. LXXX (“Multum etiam nobis profuerunt codices clarissimorum virorum Claudij Puteani & Petri Pithaei, & codex amplissimi viri Hieronymi Bignonij, qui fuerat antea primum Ioannis Antonij Lescurij, deinde ab illius heredibus emptus à Claudio Expillio. Eo autem usum fuisse Ioannem Tilium patet ex variis locis, ubi emendationes manu ejus scriptae sunt supra lineas, ut ille solebat.” [link])
Biblissima [link])
Bibliotheca Legum: a database on Carolingian secular law texts [link])
Shanti Graheli, “How to build a library across early modern Europe: The network of Claude Expilly” in International exchange in the early modern book world (Leiden 2016), pp.171-213 (p.200 no. 106)
(2) Manuscript (12th century, Italy, ff. 209): Justinianus, Codicis Iustiniani libri IX fere integri cum ueteribus glossis
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 1r
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 1r (details) - Left Jo. Ant. Lescurius care comparavi Granop. MD LXXI mens. Aprili | Claudius Expillius Right Lescure’s device or armorial insignia
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 29r
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 29r (detail) - I. A. Lescur. (device, or arms)
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 151r
Montpellier, BU Historique de Médecine, H 083, f. 151r (detail) - Io. Ant. Lescurii I. C.
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription “Jo. Ant. Lescurius care comparavi Granop. MD LXXI mens. Aprili” (f. 1r; other inscriptions ff. 29r, 151v)
● Claude Expilly (1561-1636), inscription “Claudius Expillius” (f. 1r)
● Julien Brodeau (1585?-1653)
● Jean IV Bouhier (1673-1746), inscription,“Codex Ms Bibliothecae Buherianae C.38 MDCCXXI”
● Montpellier, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire. Section de Médecine, H 083 (digitised, [link])
selected literature
Thémis, ou Bibliothèque du Jurisconsulte … Tome huitième (Brussels 1826), “Appendice. Indication des manuscrits de droit romain, qui se trouvent dans les bibliothèques départementales de France”, p.215 (“fol. 1a: ‘Io. Ant. Lescurius Car.; comparavi Gratianop., MDLXXI Mens. April. - Codex ex antiquitate et notis Yrnerii, Martini, Bulgari, Rogerii, etc. nobilis.’ Au dessus de ces mots de la main de Lescurius, on trouve le nom Claudius Espillius.” [link])
Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques des départements, 1: Séminaire d'Autun. Laon. Montpelier. Albi (Paris 1849), p.317 no. 83 [link]
Bibale [link]
Calames: Catalogue en ligne des archives et des manuscrits de l'enseignement supérieur [link]
Initiale: Catalogue de manuscrits enluminés (“Acheté en 1698 par Jean Bouhier, jurisconsulte, de Julien Brodeau. Une note de sa main au feuillet de garde explique l’histoire et l’importance de ce manuscrit: “Fuit olim hic vetus codex Joan. Ant. Lescurii, deinde Claudii Expellii, tandem Juliani Brodæi, e cujus Bibliotheca hunc comparavi ann. 1698. Hujus codicis meminit Car. An. Fabrottus in suis notis ad indicem glossarum quarumdam et vocum rariorum in juris libris occurrentium, extantem inter Ant. Loiselii opusc. voce ut creari, pag. 344, 9, et in Replicat. advers. Salmas. p. 63. / Hic codex scriptus est anno 1158, ut patet ex glossa ad L. 2 Cod. de veteri jure enucleand. / De hoc codice Jul. Brodæus, in Consuet. Paris. ¶ 182. n. 8, ita loquitur: Dans mon Code manuscrit, qui est très ancien, et probatæ lectionis, suivant le témoignage écrit des S. Herault, Fabrot, et autres scavants jurisconsultes de ce tems, qui l’ont vû, et en font honorable mention dans leurs oeuvres.” [link])
(3) Manuscript (ca 1411, Northern France, ff. 248): Publius Vergilius Maro, Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, decoration attributed to the Maître des Textes Romains (Meiss, 1974)
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription
● Jean Truchon (1507-1578), premier président du parlement de Grenoble
● unidentified owner, inscription “ex libris [… vri Clement?] 1733” (opac)
● Pierre Adamoli (1707-1769)
● Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS PA 27
selected literature
A.-F. Delandine, Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de Lyon (Paris & Lyon 1812), I, pp.158-159 no. 81 (“Le volume appartint, en 1569, à Jean-Antoine de Lescure, habitant à Cambrai [? misinterpretation of Camberiensis, i.e. Chambéry], qui le confia à Jean Truchio. Il vient de la Bibliothèque Adamoli.” [link])
Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, 31 (Paris 1898), p.10 no. 27 (“Au fol. 248 vo et dernier, un possesseur du XVIe siècle, nommé de Lescure (Lescurius), signale dans les termes suivants le prêt, puis la restitution de ce manuscrit: ‘Dno Jo. Truchio, V. Co, recepturus, cum volam (sic), commodavi. Jo. Ant. Lescurius. Camb. XV. aug. 1569. de Lescure. Vix tandem recepi VIII kal. jul. 1574. D. G.” [link])
Bibale [link]
Initiale: Catalogue de manuscrits enluminés [link]
(4) Manuscript (15th century, France, ff. 92), Lex Salica: Liber legis Salice de mannire - Capitula addita ad legem Salicam. - Vita Karoli magni imperatoris a Bernardo dictata. - Capitularum Karoli magni libri iv, collecti ab angesiso abbate
ENSBA, Mas 31, f. 1r - Lescurii J.C.
ENSBA, Mas 31, f. 91v (detail) - Explicit flureis tribus comparaui Jo. Ant. Lescurius. MDLXX
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscriptions (ff. 1r, 2r, 91v, this last inscription dated 1570)
● Denis Salvaing de Boissieu (1600-1683)
● Martin & Félix Perrin, Catalogue d’une importante bibliothèque composée d’ouvrages anciens, rares et précieux: Ancienne bibliothèque de D. de Salvaing de Boissieu, Grenoble, 13-18 December 1897, lot 163 (“Pet. in-fol. de 91 ff., papier; rel. vél. bl., aux armes de Salv. de Boissieu. … Manuscrit en belle cursive du XIVe siècle, qui appartenait en 1559 au célèbre jurisconsulte dauphinois J. A. Lescure, lequel y a mis, outre sa signature, quelques annotations marginales. Il offre d’assez nombreuses variantes avec le texte des Capitularia regum francorum publié par Baluze. Quant à la vie de Charlemagne, par Bernard, c’est la même que celle qui, le plus souvent, est attribuée à Guertinus” [link])
● Jean Masson (1856-1933), inkstamp (Lugt 1494a)
● Paris, Bibliothèque de l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Ms Mas 31
selected literature
Bibliothèque numérique Alexandrine [link]
printed books
(5) Giovanni Crastone, Dictionarium graecum copiosissimum secundum ordinem alphabeti cum interpretatione latina (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, December 1497)
f. a1r - Lescurius Romae Mense Aprili CIƆ IƆ LXXX
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription “Lescvrivs Romae Mense Aprili CIƆ IƆ LXXX [1580]” on title-page
● probably Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort (1684-1714), armorial supralibros
● Marlborough Rare Books, London; their Catalogue 140: New acquisitions, Fine printing and illustration from the 15th to the 19th century (London 1991), item 9 (£9500; “18th century calf, gilt spine with the arms of the Duke of Beaufort… with the signature on title of Lescurius”)
● Minoh, Osaka Aoyama Junior College Library [according to ISTC [link], its collection of 28 incunables was sold 2012; the institution closed 2021]
● Christie’s, Livres rares et manuscrits, Paris, 22 November 2021, lot 11 (“Exemplaire à belles marges, provenant de la bibliothèque de Jean-Adolphe Lescure, juriste et bibliophile. La signature au titre est suivie de la date ‘Romae Mense Aprili MDLXXX’ qui est vraisemblablement la date et le lieu d’achat de l’exemplaire … Reliure anglaise du XVIIIème siècle: veau blond, dos à nerfs orné d’un décor doré aux caissons et d’une couronne nobiliaire, armes de l’Angleterre en pied du dos. (Restauration marginale au feuillet e-6 avec atteinte à une lettre, charnières, coiffes, coins et premier caisson portant les armoiries de l’Angleterre restaurés).” [link]) [RBH 20079-11]
● unidentified owner - bought in sale (€23,750)
literature
Koichi Yukishima, Incunabula in Japanese libraries (Tokyo 2004), p.83 no. 142
Koichi Yukishima, “Study on the Aldine editions in Japanese libraries” in Bulletin of Waseda University Library 54 (2007), pp.1-54 (p.24 no. 5 “Ms: Lescvrivs Romae, Mense Aprili 1580; coat of arms: Duke of Beaufort”) [pdf, link]
(6) Antonio de Gouveia, Antonii Goveani Commentarius In M. Tullii Ciceronis Topica ad Ioannem Mansencalum primum Tolosae Praesidem. Ejusdem ad L. Imperium de Juris. om. Judicum (Paris: Regnault Chaudière & Simon de Colines, 1545) - bound with: Quintus Asconius Pedianus, Q. Asconii Pediani Patavini commentationes in aliquot orationes M. Tullii Ciceronis. In treis Verrinus,& quartae initium. In Orationem pro C. Cornelio. In Orationem contra C. Antonium, & L. Catilinam. In Orationem contra L. Pisonem. In Orationem pro M. Scauro. In Orationem pro Milone. Francisci Hotomani studio & diligentia post omnes omnium editiones quàm emendatissimae. Index rerum & verborum memorabilium multis quam antehac partibus & melior & emendatior. Ejusdem Hotomani expositiones suae in Asconium operae & diligentiae (Lyon: Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1551)
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription
● Denis Salvaing de Boissieu (1600-1683)
● Martin & Félix Perrin, Catalogue d’une importante bibliothèque composée d’ouvrages anciens, rares et précieux: Ancienne bibliothèque de D. de Salvaing de Boissieu, Grenoble, 13-18 December 1897, lot 469 (“vél. bl. … Sur le titre du premier ouvrage, se trouve la signature: Io. Ant. Lescurii, célèbre jurisc. dauphinois, auquel cet exempl. a appartenu” [link])
(7) Antonio de Gouveia, Antonii Goveani Commentarius In M. Tullii Ciceronis Topica ad Ioannem Mansencalum primum Tolosae Praesidem. Ejusdem ad L. Imperium de Juris. om. Judicum (Paris: Regnault Chaudière & Simon de Colines, 1545)
provenance
● Jean-Antoine de Lescure, annotations
● Grenoble, Bibliothèque d’étude et du patrimoine, Fonds ancien, L.6664 (opac [link])
literature
Paul Fournier, “L’Ancienne Université de Grenoble” in Annales de l’Université de Grenoble 18 (1906), pp.318-375 (p.349: “La Bibliothèque publique de Grenoble conserve encore (L. 6664) un ouvrage de Govéa qui appartint à Lescure et fut annoté par lui; c’est le commentaire de Govéa sur les Topiques de Cicéron et son explication de la loi Imperium, au Digeste, de juridictione omnium judicum (renseignement fourni par M. [Edmund] Maignien.” [link])
(8) Marcus Valerius Martialis, Martialis (Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, December 1517)
provenance
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription
● unidentified owner, “an Athenian collector”
● Christie Manson & Woods, Valuable illuminated manuscripts, printed books and autograph letters: including the property of an Athenian collector [lots 26-106], London, 29 November 1999, lot 54 (part lot: “title inscriptions (‘Lescurius’, Rome, March 1580; another erased)” [link]) [RBH 6222-54]
(9) Publius Papinius Statius, Statii Syluarum libri quinque, Thebaidos libri duodecim, Achilleidos duo [Latin and Greek] (Venice: Aldo Manuzio, August 1502)
f. a1r - Statius | Lescurius Romae Idib. Feb. CIƆ IƆ LXXX.
provenance
● unidentified owner, deleted inscription on title-page (16C)
● Jean Antoine de Lescure, inscription “Lescurius Romae Idib. Feb. CIƆ IƆ LXXX [1580]” on title-page
● Reiss & Sohn, Auktion 80: Wertvolle Bücher, Handschriften, Graphik, Königstein im Taunus, 23 October 2001, lot 563 (DM 26,000)
● T. Kimball Brooker [Bibliotheca Brookeriana #0080]
● Sotheby’s, Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library, The Aldine Collection, N-Z, New York, 25 June 2025, lot 1449 (“Roman brown morocco, before 1527 [image, link] … The binding has been attributed to the shop of the Roman stationer Paolo di Bernardino Bancheli, though Hobson suggests it is not his work despite the presence of Bancheli’s distinctive ginkgo leaf tool.” [link])
