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Royal-paper Copies of Aldine Octavo Editions [40]

Library Abbreviations

                                         
BES  Biblioteca de El Escorial, Madrid 
BL  British Library, London 
BLaur  Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence 
BMV  Biblioteca Marciana, Venice 
BN  Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris 
BNCF  Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence 
BTriv  Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan 
CUL  Cambridge University Library 
DSB  Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin 
HLH  Houghton Library, Harvard University 
HRHRC  Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX 
JRULM  John Rylands University Library of Manchester 
MC  Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, France 
MCO  Merton College, Oxford 
NYPL  New York Public Library 
ONW  Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna 
PML  Pierpont Morgan Library, New York 
TCC  Trinity College, Cambridge 
TCD  Trinity College, Dublin 
UCLA  Library of University of California, Los Angeles 
YUL  Yale University Library 

A. Editions Published from 1514 to 1534

  • 1. 1514 ¶ Sannazaro, Arcadia
    BN Rés.p.Yc 1277, 210 × 101 mm (Grolier binding)
    Renouard, p. 68

  • 108

    Page 108
  • 2. 1514 (1519?) ¶ Virgil
    BL C.19.C.22, 215 × 102 mm (figure 2); BL G9696, 202 × 95 mm; JRULM 3361, 197 ×
    97 mm
    Renouard, p. 64[41]
  • 3. 1517 Ausonius
    BN Rés.p.Yc.896, 195 × 94 mm; CUL Sel.6.55, 171 × 97 mm
    Renouard, pp. 80–81
  • 4. 1517 Martial
    BLaur D'Elci 1083, 180 × 94 mm
    Centi, p. 371[42]
  • 5. 1518 Pontanus, Amorum libri
    PML 1564, 186 × 95 mm
    Fletcher, p. 113; Needham 1994, p. 135
  • 6. 1518 ¶ Pomponius Mela
    PML 1559, 176 × 90 mm
    Fletcher, p. 113
  • 7. 1518–1521 Livy, 4 vols
    JRULM 20953, 208 × 100 mm[43]
    Renouard, p. 84
  • 8. 1519 ¶ Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
    BLaur D'Elci 1178–1180, 208 × 95 mm; JRULM 5371, 200 × 98 mm, 205 × 98 mm,
    203 × 98 mm
    Renouard, p. 86; Centi, p. 160
  • 9. 1519 ¶ Horace
    BL C.19.c.5, 210 × 99 mm
    Renouard, p. 88[44]
  • 10. 1520 Quintus Curtius
    T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 184 × 97 mm
    Brooker (letter of 7/7/2003)
  • 11. 1521 ¶ Terence
    Renouard, pp. 91–92
  • 12. 1521 ¶ Petrarch
    BTriv Triv.Petr.34, 171 × 93 mm[45]
    Renouard, pp. 92–93
  • 13. 1521 Longolius
    PML 1424, 178 × 102 mm
    Fletcher, p. 114

  • 109

    Page 109
  • 14. 1521 ¶ Sallust
    BTriv Triv.H608, 212 × 97 mm
    Renouard, p. 93
  • 15. 1522 Asconius Pedianus
    Renouard, p. 96
  • 16. 1533 Castilgione
    BL C.16.g.10, 177 × 94 mm; PML 28071, 181 × 92 mm
    Renouard, pp. 107–108; Fletcher, p. 115
  • 17. 1533 Cicero, Epistolae familiares
    BL 1454.d.6, 210 × 101 mm
    Renouard, p. 108
  • 18. 1533 Sannazaro, De partu virginis
    BLaur D'Elci 291, 202 × 94 mm; BN Rés.p.Yc.1276, 200 × 98 mm (Grolier binding);
    Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, 187 × 97 mm (Grolier binding)
    Renouard, p. 110; Centi, p. 514; Nixon, p. 53
  • 19. 1533 ¶ Capella
    BLaur D'Elci 826, 190 × 100 mm (Grolier binding); JRULM 20942, 201 × 97 mm (Grolier
    binding)
    Renouard, p. 110; Centi, p. 124
  • 20. 1533–1534 ¶ Ovid, 3 vols
    DSB Ald.Ren.109,8–1 (vol.1), 197 × 95 mm; HLH WKR 16.4.2, 200 × 100 mm (Grolier
    binding); TCD Quin 66, 210 × 98 mm
    Renouard, p. 109; Needham 1994, p. 135
  • 21. 1534 ¶ Priapaea
    BL C.19.c.6, 215 × 96 mm
    Renouard, p. 110[46]
  • 22. 1534 ¶ Valerius Maximus
    BN Rés.Z.4607, 188 × 96 mm (Grolier binding); ONW 22.0.12-Alt.Einb, 200 ×
    100 mm
    Renouard, pp. 110–111
  • 23. 1534 Sannazaro, Arcadia
    Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, 188 × 105 mm (Grolier binding)
    Renouard, p. 112[47]
  • 24. 1534 Sannazaro, Sonetti
    Renouard, p. 112; Nixon, pp. 37–38
 
[41]

According to Renouard there is another copy "en grand papier" of this edition in the
Quin collection, Trinity College, Dublin. In fact, the Quin copy, which measures 170 × 106
mm, is printed on paper with the cardinal's hat watermark and so belongs to the main print
run on narrow-median paper.

[42]

For a possible royal-paper copy of another 1517 octavo, Oppian's De piscibus, see
above, n. 33.

[43]

The copy is bound in eight volumes. At the same press-mark there is also a narrow-
median copy of the fifth volume, published in 1533.

[44]

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France does not possess a copy "en grand papier" of
this edition, as Renouard states.

[45]

The copy is printed on white paper as far as f. 103, and then on blue paper. As Ren-
ouard observes, it is obviously made up from two different copies. I include the copy in my list,
not without misgivings, because it has large bottom margins.

[46]

Renouard (p. 81) mistakenly attributes this royal-paper copy, of Cracherode prov-
enance, to the 1517 edition.

[47]

Renouard wrongly states that there is a copy of this edition "en grand papier" and
with a Grolier binding in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Presumably he confused it with
their copy of the 1514 edition (see entry 1).

B. Editions Published between 1535 and 1550

  • 25. 1535–1536 Pliny, 3 vols
    BN Rés.S.904–906, 199 × 118 mm, 198 × 111 mm, 198 × 118 mm; BNCF Banco Rari
    161–163, 207 × 117 mm, 205 × 116 mm, 208 × 116 mm; BES, 210 × 120 mm;
    T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 200 × 122 mm; JRULM 5369a (vol. III), 207 ×
    120 mm
    Renouard, pp. 114–115; Brooker, p. 33, n. 17 and fig. 13

  • 110

    Page 110
  • 26. 1536 ¶ Aristotle
    PML 1169, 181 × 113 mm
    Renouard, p. 115; Fletcher, p. 116
  • 27. 1540 ¶ Cicero, Epistolae familiares
    BL C.19.c.19, 199 × 121 mm; BN Rés.Z.2128, 192 × 107 mm
    Renouard, p. 120[48]
  • 28. 1540 ¶ Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
    BL Davis 763, 208 × 118 (figure 4); NYPL *KB 1540, 197 × 113 mm
    Brooker, pp. 65–66
  • 29. 1540–1541 Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
    BN Rés.X.2376–2378, 208 × 122 mm, 204 × 118 mm, 204 × 118 mm; T. Kimball
    Brooker, Chicago (vol. I), 215 × 125 mm
    Renouard, p. 121; Brooker, p. 66 and letter of 27/9/2000
  • 30. 1541 Cicero, De philosophia, 2 vols
    BN Rés.R.1824–1825, 204 × 116 mm, 206 × 116 mm; JRULM 18561, 203 × 117 mm,
    200 × 117 mm; YUL Gnc60.A541 (vol. I)
    Renouard, p. 122; Brooker, pp. 66-67 and fig. 7
  • 31. 1541 ¶ Cicero, De officiis
    MCO 27.c.20, 191 × 117 mm; NYPL *KB 1541, 201 × 121 mm
    Julia Walworth (letter of 17/2/2005); Brooker, p. 66 and fig. 6
  • 32. 1541 Virgil
    DSB Ald.Ren.123,7, 204 × 116 mm
    Renouard, p. 123; Brooker, p. 67
  • 33. 1541 ¶ Terence
    DSB Ald.Ren.123,8, 206 × 115 mm; JRULM 8614, 213 × 123 mm
    Renouard, p. 123; Hobson, p. 115, pl. 66; Brooker, p. 67 and fig. 8
  • 34. 1544 Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
    BEM Esc.36.V.18, 211 × 130 mm;[49] JRULM 17418, 202 × 134 mm; UCLA 138084 ALD
    V.7, 192 × 124 mm[50]
    Renouard, p. 129; Hobson, p. 118, pl. 68; Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 215
  • 35. 1545 Cicero, De officiis
    BL C.19.c.17, 200 × 122 mm; JRULM 7891, 197 × 133 mm
    Renouard, pp. 131–132
  • 36. 1545 Virgil
    Renouard, pp. 132–133
  • 37. 1545 Terence
    PML 1632, 193 × 118 mm; UCLA Z233A4T27 1545, 196 × 118 mm
    Renouard, p. 133 (Grolier binding); Fletcher, p. 118; Ahmanson-Murphy, pp. 216–217
  • 38. 1546 Ammonius, 3 vols
    BNV 395.D.226 1–3.Stamp: Legato Molin, 170 × 110 mm
    Renouard, p. 135

  • 111

    Page 111
  • 39. 1546 Liburnio
    DSB Ald.Ren.135,5, 205 × 125 mm; JRULM 10899, 190 × 120 mm; ONW 22.0.13 Alt.
    Einb, 193 × 116 mm;[51] T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 206 × 125 (Grolier binding)
    Renouard, p. 135;[52] Brooker (letter of 24/10/2000)
  • 40. 1546 Cicero, Rhetorica
    BN Rés.X.2242–2245 (4 vols), 203 × 121 mm;[53] PML 3114, 203 × 127 mm; MC XI.G.14,
    200 × 135 mm (De oratore only)
    Renouard, p. 136; Fletcher, p. 118
  • 41. 1546 Cicero, Orationes, 3 vols
    DSB Ald.Ren.136,9–1.3, 203 × 130 mm, 201 × 130 mm (vols 1 and 3); JRULM 17295,
    204 × 134 mm, 201 × 134 mm (vols 1 and 3)
    Renouard, pp. 136–137
  • 42. 1546 Cicero, Epistolae familiares
    JRULM 18713, 205 × 134 mm; PML 1286, 205 × 134 mm
    Renouard, p. 137; Fletcher, p. 118
  • 43. 1546 Cicero, De philosophia, 2 vols
    UCLA 138084 ALD v.8–9, 190 × 122 mm[54]
    Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 231
  • 44. 1546 Capece
    T. Kimball Brooker, Chicago, 197 × 122 mm
    Brooker (letter of 24/10/2000)
  • 45. 1547 Paulus Manutius, Commentarius
    UCLA Z233 A4M324i 1547 c.2, 203 × 128 mm
    Renouard, pp. 140–141; Gilmont, pl. V; Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 235
  • 46. 1548 Cicero, Epistolae ad Atticum
    BN Rés.Z.2137, 183 × 109 mm
    Renouard, p. 143
  • 47. 1548 Cicero, De officiis
    UCLA 138084 ALD v.10, 190 × 122 mm
    Ahmanson-Murphy, p. 240
 
[48]

According to Renouard there is another copy "en grand papier" of this edition "dans
la bibliothèque Brera de Milan". However, as the Director of the Biblioteca Braidense, Milan,
kindly informs me, the height of their copy is 161 mm.

[49]

The dimensions are those of the binding.

[50]

This copy, together with other copies of works by Cicero in the same library (see en-
tries 43 and 47), belongs to a group of Aldine octavos of works by Cicero bound in a uniform
manner. The first four volumes of the group are royal-paper copies of Cicero's Rhetorica ad
Herrenium
(1 vol.) and of his Orationes (3 vols), both published in 1554, and so outside the scope
of this article (see Ahmanson-Murphy, pp. 279-281). They witness to the continuation in the
Aldine press after 1550 of the practice of printing royal-paper copies of octavo editions.

[51]

The copy is printed entirely on blue paper.

[52]

Another copy "en grand papier" which, according to Renouard, had been given to "la
Bibliothèque de Trévise", cannot now be found. I am grateful to Dr. Mariachiara Mazzariol,
who searched the libraries of Treviso on my behalf for this volume, but in vain.

[53]

All four parts were bound by the Mendoza Binder for Ottavio Pantagato, whose arms
appear on the upper cover; see Le Bars, pp. 53–55 (her items 9 and 10).

[54]

T. Kimball Brooker owns a royal-paper copy (202 × 135 mm) of the Tusculanae Dispu-
tationes
, part of the first volume of this edition (Brooker, letter of 7/7/2003).

 
[40]

¶ indicates editions known to include vellum copies. The author would be pleased to
hear of other instances of royal-paper copies of Aldines published between 1495 and 1550. Ad-
dress: 23 St Mary's St, Ely, Cambs CB7 4ER, G.B.; email: <conor.fahy@btinternet.com<.