“The 2012, no. 104, issue of the California State Library Foundation Bulletin contains several articles on the Sutro Library, including a reprinted one by Russ Davidson, “Adolph Sutro as a Book Collector,” which chronicles in great detail and with much fascination the evolution of that great library. It is required reading for anyone interested in American library history and American collectors.” (EXLIBRIS list)
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One of our newest acquisitions, Manners and Customs of the Japanese, had a little surprise when I opened it up. Was this butterfly kept here like a pressed flower or did it meet a tragic end?
Book saec. XVI from the Prüll Charterhouse near Regensburg, now in the Straubing school library, see http://ordensgeschichte.hypotheses.org/2501
Provenance question by Michael Laird: “An Inquiry on the CERL Provenance Identification site:
http://provenance.cerl.org/cgi-bin/canyouhelp/record.pl?rid=221
Seeking the identification of the individual whose super-exlibris “I.W.E.A.P.” appears on at least 5 bindings (more exist surely), all of which depict the same armorial device, and are dated between 1627 and 1659.
Other books from the “I.W.E.A.P.” library:
1. Getty Center: 85-B3019 copy 2: Baerle’s Medicea hospes (Amsterdam, 1638) et al., likewise in stamped pigskin aux armes, with the monogram I.W.E.A.P., dated 1659.
2. “Neuwe Chronica Turckischer Nation” (Frankfurt, 1595) described by Anton Podlaha as No. 167 in his catalogue of the Bibliothek des Metropoutankapitels (Prague, 1904), likewise in stamped pigskin aux armes, with the monogram I.W.E.A.P., dated 1637. REFERENCE: Topographie der historischen und Kunst-Denkmale im Konigreiche Bohmen, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 294.
3. Ovid’s Metamorphosis (Frankfurt, 1582) with woodcuts by Virgil Solis. Sold in 1903 by Bernard Quaritch, (Catalogue 226, item 123), likewise in stamped pigskin aux armes, with the monogram I.W.E.A.P., dated 1627.
4. Jan David’s “Veridicus Christianus”(Antwerp: Plantin, 1606), likewise stamped in pigskin aux armes, with the monogram I.W.E.A.P., dated 1628. Private Collection (Germany).
This armorial device, helmet and mantling all appear to be identical with that assigned to the FRANGL (Fraengl) family (Straubing, Bavaria) by Ottfried Neubecker in his “Grosses Wappen Bilder Lexikon” p. 249 (Siebmacher, Burgerliche 4. Teil, 7). The “I.W.E.A.P.” monogram does not suggest any relation to the Frangl (Fraengle) family.”
Two other copies of the I.W.A.P. binding:
http://www.vintage-maps.com/en/Atlases/Ortelius-Atlas-Parergon-1624::271.htm
http://books.google.de/books?id=RhTsAAAAMAAJ&q=%22i+w+e+a+p%22+binding
Update: Puzzle solved, see the comments at
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