With Franciscan Provenance
JUSTIN.
Justini ex Trogo Pompeio Historia, fidelissima recognitione nunc postremo, collatis ad autorem & Graecis & Latinis historicis, pristinae veritati restituta. Adjectae sunt praeterea et monarchi[a]e ad calcem libri huius: unde quibus & quandiu quisque regum imperarit, deprehendere facile est: plurimum ad historiarum lectionem facientes. Cum indice locupletissimo. Cologne, Johann Gymnich [III], 1580.
8vo, pp. [xxxii], 342, [6]; woodcut Gymnich device to title, woodcut initials throughout; short closed tear to outer margin of title, a little browned with the odd spot, but a very good copy; bound in contemporary German orange-painted vellum, later paper labels to spine, yapp fore-edges with remains of tawed ties, edges stained blue, sewn on 3 split tawed thongs laced in; vellum a little rubbed; contemporary ownership inscriptions of Nicolaus Werling to front pastedown and title, early ownership inscription of the Friars Minor ‘Pr[o]v[inc]ie argentiæ’ to title, late seventeenth- or eighteenth century ownership inscriptions of the Franciscan friary at Kreuzberg and their later ink stamp to title, a few early underlinings and pen trials.
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Justini ex Trogo Pompeio Historia, fidelissima recognitione nunc postremo, collatis ad autorem & Graecis & Latinis historicis, pristinae veritati restituta. Adjectae sunt praeterea et monarchi[a]e ad calcem libri huius: unde quibus & quandiu quisque regum imperarit, deprehendere facile est: plurimum ad historiarum lectionem facientes. Cum indice locupletissimo.
Very rare Cologne edition of Justin’s abridgement of the lost Historiae Philippicae of Pompey Trogue, in contemporary German painted vellum and owned over several centuries by two Franciscan friaries in Alsace and the Rhön.
The Historiae or Epitome was one of the most widely read texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, printed more than one hundred times in the sixteenth century. The work includes several striking passages ‘such as the description of the multitude of Athenians pouring out to see Alcibiades on his return from exile, and of Brennus and his army of Gauls at Delphi. Since Trogus’ work has not survived, Justin’s book is valuable for the history of Macedon and the Hellenistic kingdoms’ (OCCL).
Provenance:
1. One Nicolaus Werling, with his contemporary ownership inscriptions.
2. The Franciscans of the ‘Province’ of Strasbourg, with their early ownership inscription. Established there since the thirteenth century, the Franciscans of Alsace largely fell victim to the Reformation, with all the region’s friaries abandoned over the course of the sixteenth century save those at Thann et Hagenau, whose friars returned there in 1597 after a fifty-year absence.
3. The Franciscan friary at Kreuzberg, in the Rhön mountains of central Germany, with their late seventeenth- or eighteenth-century ownership inscriptions and later ink stamp. Sitting atop the Heiliger Berg der Franken, where the Irish missionaries SS. Kilian, Colman, and Totnan are said to have erected the eponymous cross, the friary was founded in 1677 and has operated a noted brewery since the eighteenth century.
OCLC finds no copies outside Continental Europe. Not in Library Hub.
USTC 668639; VD16 T 2064.