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ALEXANDRI AB ALEXANDRO (ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRI). Genialium dierum libri sex varia ac recondita eruditione referti. Accuratius quàm antehac excusi, cum duplici indice. Paris (in uico Sorbonico, & Iacobaeo, apud Ioannem Petrum sub insigni D. Barbarae) 1532.
Folio (about 315x210 mm.). Title and last but one page with woodcut printers device. (16), 1-194, (2, last blank) ll. 2 woodcut vignettes, woodcut figurative initials. 2 leaves with tear in lower margin, 2 leaves with inkstains, a few wormholes in lower outer corners, some minor foxing or spotting. Some old marginal annotations and underlinings to text. BOUND WITH:

NANI MIRABELLI, DOMENICO. Polyanthea opus suaussisimis floribus exornatum compositum per Domenicum Nanum Mirabellium, ciuem Albensem artiumque doctorem ad communem vtilitatem. Addita nunc primum est latina interpretatio versuum Dantis, & Petrarchae, quos ipsi italico idiomate conscripserunt. Libera Argentina (Strassburg, apud Matthiam Schurerium) 1517 (colophon: Matthias Schurerius Argentorati exscripsit,... Ductu Leonardi & Lucae Alantsee fratru[m]).
Folio (about 315x210 mm.). (8), I-CCXXIII (last blank missing) ll. Title printed in red and black within woodcut figurative border, last page with woodcut printer´s device. 1 leaf with marginal tear, some minor foxing or spotting. Old marginal annotations and underlinings to text. VD16 N 67.

Contemporary blindtooled half vellum over wooden boards, worn, lacks 2 clasps and straps, 3 fittings (of 4) present, no paper on the boards, spine in five compartments.

Alexandri ab Alexandro (Alessandro Alessandri, about 1461-1523), Neapolitan lawyer. Genialium dierum was first printed and published in Rome, 1522. The book is a miscellany of learning and philology, somewhat on the model of the "Noctes Atticae" of Aulus Gellius.

Nani Mirabelli (late 15th. - early 16th century), rector of schools and archpriest of the cathedral in Savona, also served as papal secretary. His book is one of the earliest "Konversationlexica" first printed in Savona 1503. "In some ways [the Polyanthea] may be said to have been the prototype of the Conversationslexicon: it is arranged alphabetically by subjects, and it is furnished with etymological derivations, complete with numerous illustrative quotations" (Collison Encyclopedias). Nani´s sources include Dante, Petrarch, and hundreds of others. He includes anecdotes and proverbs from antiquity and medieval writing as well as natural history and medicine. The Polyanthea went through at least 41 editions between 1503 and 1681, nearly all of which were revised and expanded by their successive editors.

Auktionsnummer:

6002

Datum:

2019-12-11