TITELMANN (François)

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TITELMANN (François)
Paraphrastica elucidatio in sacrosancta Iesu Christi. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1547. In-8, 12 ff.n.ch. and 445 pp.: brown morocco, interlaced border and sets of gilt and cold gilt fillets framing the plates, gilt iron at the corners, in the centre a gilt embossed horizontal oval medallion, spine ribbed with fillets and castors, smooth silver edges (contemporary binding). First part only, out of two, of this Lyon edition of the Paraphrases of Sacred Scripture by François Titelmann, religious of the order of Saint Francis. (Baudrier, IX, p. 140.) Forged Apollo and Pegasus. Specimen of a fake binding with a horizontal medallion of Apollo and Pegasus, probably executed in the 19th century by Vittorio Villa, one of the two great forgers specialized in this type of binding. If the binding is authentic and of the period, the central plate and probably the large irons surrounding it are later additions. About the decorated bindings with the plate depicting Apollo on his chariot and Pegasus on the Parnassus, made for the wealthy Genoese banker and bibliophile Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (c. 1524-1612), see the study by Anthony Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, 1975, and the article by Michel Wittock, "À propos des reliures, vraies ou adultées, au médaillon d'Apollon et Pégase" in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1998, pp. 330-365. Heading of the first booklets. Restored caps and corners, hinges partly split.
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