{"id":763,"date":"2011-09-28T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2011-09-28T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T19:01:14","slug":"a-copy-of-rolevincks-fasciculus-temporum-from-the-pillone-library-incunabula-q-902-r64f-1484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2011\/09\/28\/a-copy-of-rolevincks-fasciculus-temporum-from-the-pillone-library-incunabula-q-902-r64f-1484\/","title":{"rendered":"A copy of Rolevinck\u2019s Fasciculus Temporum from the Pillone Library (Incunabula Q. 902 R64f 1484)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rolevinck, Werner. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum chronicas complectens incipit feliciter<\/em>. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This copy of Rolevinck\u2019s Fasciculus temporum<\/em> is one of 172 volumes with fore-edge paintings originating from the Pillone Library. The Pillone Library was started in Renaissance Italy by Antonio Pillone (d. 1533) and was added to by his descendants throughout the sixteenth century.\u00a0 The library survived complete in its original location near Belluno, Italy well into the nineteenth century, when it was sold to Paolo Maresio Bazolle, a Venetian antiques dealer, in 1874.\u00a0 The English book collector and antiquarian Sir Thomas Brooke (1830-1908) purchased all the Pillone Library books that featured fore-edge paintings. Brooke\u2019s descendant sold the books to the Paris dealer Pierre Ber\u00e8s (1913-2008) in 1957. \u00a0Ber\u00e8s subsequently issued a catalog of the 168 Pillone Library books still extant and then the books were sold and further dispersed. This copy was sold to the University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library by the Los Angeles firm of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge in 1966.\u00a0 17 volumes of Pillone Library books were recently offered for sale at Christie\u2019s in Summer 2011. Only a single volume met the reserve price and was sold.<\/p>\n

The fore-edge paintings of the Pillone Library were executed by Cesare Vecellio (1521-1601), a cousin of Titian and a member of his workshop. These paintings often depict some aspect of the work on which they appear.\u00a0 The Illinois copy of the Fasciculus temporum<\/em> has a fore-edge painting depicting Adam and three richly-dressed men.\u00a0 Rolevinck\u2019s work is a history of the world from Creation to the fifteenth century and so the painting may be seen as representing man from Adam to the present day.<\/p>\n

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The contemporary binding is also representative of other Pillone Library copies. It is quarter leather over exposed wooden boards and has three clasps: one at each edge of the book.\u00a0 The book also retains the vellum wrapper, which now serves as an endpaper to the bound book; this feature is typical of the Pillone Library. AD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rolevinck, Werner. Fasciculus temporum omnes antiquorum chronicas complectens incipit feliciter. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484. This copy of Rolevinck\u2019s Fasciculus temporum is one of 172 volumes with fore-edge paintings originating from the Pillone Library. The Pillone Library was started in Renaissance Italy by Antonio Pillone (d. 1533) and was added to by his descendants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,33],"tags":[122,207,208,245],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","category-bindings","category-provenance","tag-fore-edge-painting","tag-pierre-beres","tag-pillone-library","tag-sir-thomas-brooke"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}