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Panvinio's 1557 Fasti et Triumphi Romanorum
Panvinius, Onuphrius. FASTI ET TRIUMPHI ROM. A ROMULO REGE USQUE AD CAROLUM V. CÆS. AUG. SIVE EPITOME REGUM, CONSULUM, DICTATORUM, MAGISTROR. EQUITUM, TRIBUNORUM MILITUM CONSULARI POTESTATE, CENSORUM, IMPP. & ALIORUM MAGISTRATUUM ROMAN. CUM ORIENTALIUM TUM OCCIDENTALIUM, EX ANTIQUITATUM MONUMENTIS MAXIMA CUM FIDE AC DILIGENTIA DESUMPTA. ONUPHRIO PANVINIO VERONENSI F. AUGUSTINIANO AUTHORE. ADDITÆ SUNT SUIS LOCIS IMPP. & ORIENTALIUM, & OCCIDENTALIUM VERIßIMÆ ICONES, EX VETUSTIßIMIS NUMISMATIS QUÀM FIDELIßIMÈ DELINEATÆ. EX MUSÆO JACOBI STRADÆ MANTUANI, CIUIS ROMANI, ANTIQUARII. Venetiis: Impensis Jacobi Stradæ Mantuani, 1557. First edition. Folio [31.5 by 20.5 cm], modern full brown antiqued calf in period style; both sides paneled in blind; spine with seven raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; board edges hatched in blind; all page edges red. (12), 228, (204) pages [with pages 181–192 repeated twice]; collation agrees with Dekesel, with numerous page numbering errors; 39 pages in the first pagination printed in red and black; finely engraved woodcut printer's device on title; woodcut initials; 371 woodcuts of coins and medals in the text in white on a black ground, depicting Roman, Byzantine and German emperors. A bit tightly trimmed at fore-edge, just grazing a few of the printed marginal notations. Lacking final blank. Binding lightly rubbed, but attractive and skillfully produced. Near fine. A scarce volume. Onofrio Panvinio (1529–1568), was a polymath, scholar, and Augustinian monk who served as librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a great collector of Roman sculpture. Published by the Italian antiquarian Jacob de Strada (1505–1588), this first edition of Panvinio's Fasti et triumphi was plagued by production errors, forcing Strada "to find a new publisher to print a corrected, but unillustrated, edition the next year" (Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, page 41). John Cunnally (Images of the Illustrious, pages 31–32), places the blame for the errors on Strada himself, and states that it was actually Panvinio who sought out another printer for a corrected edition. Cunnally cites letters by Antonio Agustín to Panvinio in which the problem is discussed in some detail. According to Ferdinando Bassoli, this, Panvinio's numismatic magnum opus, is "illustrated with Strada's engravings, set this time in a more serious historical context" (Antiquarian Books on Coins and Medals, page 17). Strada's handsome, visually appealing illustrations, originally appearing in 1553, are similar in appearance to those found in Fulvio and Huttich, the first two illustrated numismatic books. Dekesel, in his 1991 study of Twelve Highlights from the Numismatic Book Collection in the Herzog August Bibliothek (Augusteer) in Wolfenbuttel (BRD), criticizes the number of pagination errors, but concludes that it remains of some importance, particularly as a production of de Strada utilizing his previous Epitome thesauri. Brückmann 105. Dekesel P 16 (earlier state with page 22 numbered 10). Lipsius 305.
Panvinius, Onuphrius. FASTI ET TRIUMPHI ROM. A ROMULO REGE USQUE AD CAROLUM V. CÆS. AUG. SIVE EPITOME REGUM, CONSULUM, DICTATORUM, MAGISTROR. EQUITUM, TRIBUNORUM MILITUM CONSULARI POTESTATE, CENSORUM, IMPP. & ALIORUM MAGISTRATUUM ROMAN. CUM ORIENTALIUM TUM OCCIDENTALIUM, EX ANTIQUITATUM MONUMENTIS MAXIMA CUM FIDE AC DILIGENTIA DESUMPTA. ONUPHRIO PANVINIO VERONENSI F. AUGUSTINIANO AUTHORE. ADDITÆ SUNT SUIS LOCIS IMPP. & ORIENTALIUM, & OCCIDENTALIUM VERIßIMÆ ICONES, EX VETUSTIßIMIS NUMISMATIS QUÀM FIDELIßIMÈ DELINEATÆ. EX MUSÆO JACOBI STRADÆ MANTUANI, CIUIS ROMANI, ANTIQUARII. Venetiis: Impensis Jacobi Stradæ Mantuani, 1557. First edition. Folio [31.5 by 20.5 cm], modern full brown antiqued calf in period style; both sides paneled in blind; spine with seven raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt; board edges hatched in blind; all page edges red. (12), 228, (204) pages [with pages 181–192 repeated twice]; collation agrees with Dekesel, with numerous page numbering errors; 39 pages in the first pagination printed in red and black; finely engraved woodcut printer's device on title; woodcut initials; 371 woodcuts of coins and medals in the text in white on a black ground, depicting Roman, Byzantine and German emperors. A bit tightly trimmed at fore-edge, just grazing a few of the printed marginal notations. Lacking final blank. Binding lightly rubbed, but attractive and skillfully produced. Near fine. A scarce volume. Onofrio Panvinio (1529–1568), was a polymath, scholar, and Augustinian monk who served as librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a great collector of Roman sculpture. Published by the Italian antiquarian Jacob de Strada (1505–1588), this first edition of Panvinio's Fasti et triumphi was plagued by production errors, forcing Strada "to find a new publisher to print a corrected, but unillustrated, edition the next year" (Numismatics in the Age of Grolier, page 41). John Cunnally (Images of the Illustrious, pages 31–32), places the blame for the errors on Strada himself, and states that it was actually Panvinio who sought out another printer for a corrected edition. Cunnally cites letters by Antonio Agustín to Panvinio in which the problem is discussed in some detail. According to Ferdinando Bassoli, this, Panvinio's numismatic magnum opus, is "illustrated with Strada's engravings, set this time in a more serious historical context" (Antiquarian Books on Coins and Medals, page 17). Strada's handsome, visually appealing illustrations, originally appearing in 1553, are similar in appearance to those found in Fulvio and Huttich, the first two illustrated numismatic books. Dekesel, in his 1991 study of Twelve Highlights from the Numismatic Book Collection in the Herzog August Bibliothek (Augusteer) in Wolfenbuttel (BRD), criticizes the number of pagination errors, but concludes that it remains of some importance, particularly as a production of de Strada utilizing his previous Epitome thesauri. Brückmann 105. Dekesel P 16 (earlier state with page 22 numbered 10). Lipsius 305.