Michael Glykas, Annales, Basel, 1572, French ivory vellum gilt
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MICHAEL GLYKAS. Annales Michaeli Glycae Siculi, qui lectori praeter alia cognitu iucunda & utilia, Byzantinam historiam universam exhibent: nunc primum Latinam in linguam transscripti & editi per Io. Leuvenclavium: Ex Io. Sambuci V.C. Bibliotheca: Accessit Index geminus locupletiss. Basel: Eusebius Episcopius & Heirs of Nicolaus Episcopius, September 1572
One of thirty-three bindings known with the monogram of an unidentified owner, associated with Denis de Sallo (1626-1669), the elder son of Jacques de Sallo (d. 1648) by the nineteenth-century French bibliographer Jean Guigard, but manifestly bound decades before Denis de Sallo came of age.
For other lots in the sale with the same monogram on the binding, see lots 1134 (Bible), 1052 (Celsus), and 1160 (Marzio).
8vo (187 x 122 mm). Italic type, 31 lines plus headline. collation: α8 a-z8 A-M8 N10: 298 leaves. Title-page and verso of colophon leaf with woodcut device, ruled in brown throughout, chapter titles added in manuscript, brief marginal annotation in Latin to A6r, short manuscript catalogue description pasted to end. (Some dampstaining.)
binding: Contemporary French ivory vellum (195 x 129 mm.), gilt fillet round sides, gilt cartouche in centre of both covers containing monogram of a pair of interlaced Δs and Σs on upper cover and Ds and Ss on lower, flat spine, false bands in gilt, 8-pointed gilt star in 4 upper compartments, 3-line title in lower compartment, edges gilt, section of medieval manuscript visible as binder's waste. (Some staining.)
provenance: Unidentified monogram on the covers (previously attributed to Jacques de Sallo and Denis de Sallo, although this claim should be treated with skepticism) — "Ant. Jos. Girard clerici aquensis 1755", ownership inscription on title-page. acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, 2002. references: VD16 G 2264; USTC 611611; for the historic attribution of bindings with the same monogram to the ownership of de Sallo, see Halwas, "Bindings for an unidentified owner with “D S” and Delta-Sigma-Iota cyphers", web, accessed 20.09.24
