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Book of the Week – Emblemata et Aliqvot Nvmmi Antiqvi…

31 Friday Jan 2014

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Arnold Nicolai, Christopher Plantin, Cornelis Muller, emblem book, emblemata, engraving, Ferdinand I, Geoffroy Ballain, Gerard Janssen van Kampen, humanism, Hungarian, Janos Zsamboki, Kenneth Lawrence Ott, Lucas d'Heere, Maximilian II, Okanagan County Museum, Pieter Huys, Plantin, Plantini, Roman coins, Rudolf II, vignettes, wood engravings, woodcuts

Zsamboki, Emblemata, 1569, Cover
Zsamboki, Emblemata, 1569, Title Page
Zsamboki, Emblemata, 1569

Emblemata et Aliqvot Nvmmi Antiqvi…
Janos Zsamboki (1531-1584)
Antverpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, mdlxix [1569]

The emblem book addressed a wide range of interests within humanist culture, among them the purpose of poetry and the relative power of the visual and the verbal. The first edition of physician Janos Zsamboki’s Emblemata was printed by the Plantin press in 1564. It was the first new emblem book to appear outside of Italy or France and is one of the largest and most influential examples of the genre at an early state of its development. An expanded edition was published in 1566 and was reprinted four times.

Janos Zsamboky was a Hungarian humanist who spent much of his life in Vienna as court-historiographer to the Habsburg emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II, and Rudolf II. This edition opens with an emblem dedicated to the newly elected emperor Maximilian II. Zsamboky prepared his emblem book at the end of two decades of traveling throughout Germany, France, Italy, and the Low Countries, before he entered the court in Vienna. Other works from Zsamboki include editions of classical texts and historiographical works. His was renowned for his scholarly patronage and an impressive collection of books and old manuscripts.

Emblemata consists of single pages containing a motto, a woodcut illustration and an epigram. Nearly a third of the emblems are also accompanied by dedications to well-known humanists, powerful courtiers, clergymen and friends and relatives. Zsamboki commissioned Lucas d’Heere to draw the illustrations. Christopher Plantin had half of d’Heere’s designs redrawn by Geoffory Ballain and Pieter Huys. The woodcuts were produced by Gerard Janssen van Kampen, Cornelis Muller and Arnold Nicolai. The Plantin printer’s device appears on the title-page. A full-page engraving of Zsamboki faces the preface. Various decorative vignettes throughout. Several leaves with wood engravings of Roman coins at the end of the book.

From the Kenneth Lieurance Ott Collection donated to the Okanagan County Museum, Washington.

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Book of the Week – An Embassy From the East-India Company of the…

20 Monday Jan 2014

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Athanasius Kircher, China, Chinese, East-India Company, engravings, Holland, Jesuit, Johannes Nieuhof, John Ogilby, printers, printing, Wenceslaus Hollar

Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669, Cover
Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669
Nieuhof, An Embassy…, 1669, p.210-211

An Embassy From the East-India Company of the…
Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672)
London: Printed by J. Macock for the author, 1669
First printing in English translation

Johann Nieuhof was delegation secretary under ambassadors Pieter de Goyer and Jocab de Keyser for Holland’s mission to China, arriving there in 1656. His book describing his travels in China quickly became a best seller of its day. First published in Leyden in 1665, it was reprinted in Dutch in 1670 and again in 1693. It was translated into French (1665), German (1666) Latin (1668) and English (1669). The English translation was reprinted in 1673.

Nieuhof’s book was richly illustrated with 150 maps and engravings of cities, flora and fauna, and costumes, all based on drawings by Chinese artists. The illustrations provided western Europeans with one of its earliest and most accurate depictions of the exotic Far East. John Ogilby, the English translator, included only about a third of the illustrations for the English edition.

The English artists, including Wenceslaus Hollar, who copied the original engravings, replaced the original artist’s signatures with their own, a standard practice at the time. Ogilby added nearly twenty-five illustrations that were not in the Dutch editions, some of which were copied from the works of Athanasius Kircher, an early Jesuit visitor to China.

Nieuhof included a history of China in the second half of his book, the first full history using Chinese sources to reach European readers. Among Nieuhof’s detailed discussions about what he saw in China, he included printing. He was impressed with the speed of the Chinese printers and compared their technique and the quality of their printing favorably with that of European printers. He wrote “…they print…with so much ease and quickness that one man is able to print 5000 sheets in a day…”

 

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Lecture Announcement – Il Risorgimento: The Birth of the Italian Nation

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Guiliana Marple, Il Risorgimento, Italian, J. Willard Marriott Library, Luise Poulton, Michael Homer, Special Collections, The University of Utah

Il Risorgimento lecture.pages

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Book of the Week – Organum

13 Monday Jan 2014

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Aristotle, Coimbra, Greek, Nicolas de Gouchy, Organum, Portugal

Aristotle, Organum, 1577
Organum, Sive Logicae Tractationes Omnes
Aristotle
Francofurti, Excudebat A. Wechelus, sibi & T. Guarino, 1577
PA389 O7 1577

Of all the classical Greek scholars, the most influential was Aristotle. He defined for the first time basic fields of inquiry: logic, physics, political science, economics, psychology, rhetoric, and ethics. In the process, Aristotle also established a method of study, based upon deductive reasoning, which profoundly influenced scholarship for nearly two thousand years.

The Organum is a collection of four Aristotelian treatises on inductive and especially deductive reasoning. This edition is a new and corrected version of the famous edition done by the learned French humanist Nicolas de Gouchy (ca. 1520-1572) in Portugal, where he was teaching Greek at Coimbra.

Greek text. Title also in Greek. Widely scattered underscoring or brief neat annotations in an early hand.

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Call for Entries – Artists’ Book Cornucopia

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Abecedarian Gallery, Artists' Book Cornucopia, J. Willard Marriott Library, Luise Poulton, rare books, Special Collections

Artists’ Book Cornucopia is an annual juried exhibition held at Abecedarian Gallery each spring. The exhibition is open to any form of artists’ publication with the exception of self-published on-demand bookworks.

Regardless of the juror’s decision, all submissions are reviewed by gallery staff with an eye towards inclusion in future curated and invitational exhibitions.

A printable version of these guidelines can be downloaded as a PDF here.

For more information and to apply visit abecedarian gallery’s website.

Entries will be juried by Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Up to $1500 in purchase and exhibition awards will be awarded at gallery director’s discretion.

First prize is a solo show in Abecedarian Gallery’s Reading Room Spring 2015.

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Book of the Week – A Winter Garden

06 Monday Jan 2014

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Alembic Press, etchings, Muriel Mallows

Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Bird
Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Flowers
Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden, 2001, Squirrel

A Winter Garden
Claire Lawson-Hall
Marcham:  Alembic Press, 2001
SB457.6 S383 2001

Written, typeset, printed, and bound by the author. Etchings by Muriel Mallows. Edition of one hundred copies. University of Utah copy is no. 47.

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