MAXIMUS (Saint, ca. 580-662). Scholia in eos B. Dionysii libros qui extant . Paris: Guillaume Morel, February 1562. 8° (161 x 105mm). Greek ( grecs du roi ) type, basilisk device as king's printer for Greek texts on title, ornamental initials. (Light dampstain.) CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BINDING BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES, GOLD-TOOLED AND PAINTED olive-brown morocco over pasteboard, French royal arms in centre of the sides, the field semé with fleurs-de-lis, hatched lobed tool at corners, border of ropework tools, fleurs-de-lis, small crowns and adorsed CC, the spine with crowned royal monogram, edges gilt and gauffered with pointillé decoration (some repainting of the blue, green and red enamel, minor repairs and rubbing to joints), modern brown morocco box. Provenance : Charles IX (reigned 1560-1574), binding; Sébastien Zamet, Bishop of Langres (d. 1655), inscription on title; H. Destailleur (sale 1891, no. 685); Giraud-Badin, booklabel. FINELY BOUND FOR KING CHARLES IX BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES. A Parisian bookseller and binder, Picques is known as bookseller to Cathérine de Medicis by 1557 and succeeded as royal binder by 1559, the final year of the reign of François II. He continued to work for Charles IX, binding, among other books, copies of his Entrée into Paris in 1571. Following Michon's early assertion that Picques was royal binder to Henri II, Picques was identified not only as binder of the finest books at Fontainbleau, but also, based on shared tools, as a principal binder to Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Marcus Fugger and others. Annie Charon-Parent has found that Gommar Estienne was royal binder to Henri II from 1550 to 1558/1559, and these tools, including the characteristic hatched lobed tool on the present binding, belonged to the royal bindery and some to Estienne personally; his personal tools passed into the royal bindery on his death and thus continued to be used on books bound by his successor as royal binder, Claude de Picques. See A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders (Cambridge: 1989), esp. pp.206-213. A rare edition of St. Maximus, printed in the royal Greek types commissioned by François I for the royal programme of printing recovered Greek texts in the original language. Considered by Proctor as "unsurpassable" ("The French royal Greek types and the Eton Chrysostom", Bibliographical Essays , 1905), they were cut by Claude Garamond based on the hand of Angelo Vergezio, a scribe employed in the royal library. Graesse IV, 453; Morgand, Bulletin , no. 41618 (this copy).
MAXIMUS (Saint, ca. 580-662). Scholia in eos B. Dionysii libros qui extant . Paris: Guillaume Morel, February 1562. 8° (161 x 105mm). Greek ( grecs du roi ) type, basilisk device as king's printer for Greek texts on title, ornamental initials. (Light dampstain.) CONTEMPORARY PARISIAN BINDING BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES, GOLD-TOOLED AND PAINTED olive-brown morocco over pasteboard, French royal arms in centre of the sides, the field semé with fleurs-de-lis, hatched lobed tool at corners, border of ropework tools, fleurs-de-lis, small crowns and adorsed CC, the spine with crowned royal monogram, edges gilt and gauffered with pointillé decoration (some repainting of the blue, green and red enamel, minor repairs and rubbing to joints), modern brown morocco box. Provenance : Charles IX (reigned 1560-1574), binding; Sébastien Zamet, Bishop of Langres (d. 1655), inscription on title; H. Destailleur (sale 1891, no. 685); Giraud-Badin, booklabel. FINELY BOUND FOR KING CHARLES IX BY CLAUDE DE PICQUES. A Parisian bookseller and binder, Picques is known as bookseller to Cathérine de Medicis by 1557 and succeeded as royal binder by 1559, the final year of the reign of François II. He continued to work for Charles IX, binding, among other books, copies of his Entrée into Paris in 1571. Following Michon's early assertion that Picques was royal binder to Henri II, Picques was identified not only as binder of the finest books at Fontainbleau, but also, based on shared tools, as a principal binder to Jean Grolier, Thomas Mahieu, Marcus Fugger and others. Annie Charon-Parent has found that Gommar Estienne was royal binder to Henri II from 1550 to 1558/1559, and these tools, including the characteristic hatched lobed tool on the present binding, belonged to the royal bindery and some to Estienne personally; his personal tools passed into the royal bindery on his death and thus continued to be used on books bound by his successor as royal binder, Claude de Picques. See A. Hobson, Humanists and Bookbinders (Cambridge: 1989), esp. pp.206-213. A rare edition of St. Maximus, printed in the royal Greek types commissioned by François I for the royal programme of printing recovered Greek texts in the original language. Considered by Proctor as "unsurpassable" ("The French royal Greek types and the Eton Chrysostom", Bibliographical Essays , 1905), they were cut by Claude Garamond based on the hand of Angelo Vergezio, a scribe employed in the royal library. Graesse IV, 453; Morgand, Bulletin , no. 41618 (this copy).
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