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Historia Augusta, seu Vitae Romanorum Caesarum
Artist
Kuehne, Gregor
Author
Braun, Joannes Balthasar
Title
Historia Augusta, seu Vitae Romanorum Caesarum
Description
Style: Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 18c
Medium Decorative Technique: Tooled in gold; Cover Material: Calf
Accession number
Shelfmark: Davis643
Place of creation Binding: Germany
Object history Text: 1698; Augsburg and Dillingen; Seitz, Placidus, Abbot of Ettal Monastery (d.1736)
Notes

With the emblem of the monastery of Ettal on the upper cover and the arms of Abbot Placidus Seitz on the lower cover. Traces of 2 pairs of clasps. Comb-marbled pastedowns. The coat of arms "corresponds to armorial number 3, the largest of the armorials listed in P. Bonifaz Schmalzl (Ettaler Einbandkunst, in: Festschrift zum Ettaler Doppeljubiläum, p. 189): "Wappensupralibros von Abt Placidus Seit: [...] Größe (size) 62 x 52 mm = 3". It probably was in use some time after 1730, but it isn't dated and the books aren't a reliable source of dating. The armorial features a new design of Seiz's coat of arms, but it is nearly identical with number 2, which may mean 3 was used for larger volumes and 2 for smaller ones." Thanks to Randall Herz for the preceeding information.

Macchi states; Bound c. 1710-1730 in Ettal by Gregor Kühne.
References

See M M Foot, The Henry Davis Gift, vol II, London, 1983.

Macchi has a further example on Epistola sive exempla in septem capitalivm vitiorvm detestationem, a Georgio Stengelio, Ingolstadij, apud Gregorium Haenlinum, 1650, 205x156x32 mm. Provenance: Bandini Buti collection, Milan. See also M. v. Arnim, Einbandkunst, n. 102 on François Antoine Pomey, Pantheum mythicum, seu fabulosa deorum historia, Frankfurt, Andrea Otto, 1713; Martin Breslauer Inc., Catalogue 110, p. 222-223, n. 130 on Famianus S. J. Strada, De bello Belgico decades duae ...ad annum 1678 continuatae, Frankfurt, J. M. Schönwetter, 1699; W. Brunner, Der Ettaler Bucheinband,p. 32-46; B. Schmalzl, Ettaler Einbandkunst, p. 171-206; Victoria and Albert Museum, Bookbindings, p. 45, 98, n. 49.
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