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E. Rappaport … Rome’ to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sumptuous Arts and Medicine diploma from the University of Bologna, handsomely illustrated and calligraphed throughout, and preserved in a contemporary richly gilt Bolognese binding.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the medieval and early modern periods, university degree ceremonies followed a precise ritual: rigorous examination, collective approval, and finally the symbolic bestowal of books, a doctoral cap, and a gold ring – tokens binding the graduate to their discipline. The title carried real authority, granting the right to teach and practise across wide territories. As legal instruments countersigned by notaries, early diplomas took the form of large, handwritten sheets on parchment; later they evolved into more compact, bound booklets, often richly decorated with coats of arms, religious imagery, and gold illumination (cf. Maggiulli). This diploma confers a degree in Liberal Arts, Sacred Philosophy, and Medicine on Bernardino Maggi (Bernardinus Maggius or Madius in Latin), a citizen of Lugano. Granted on 9 February 1607, the manuscript was completed the following year, as recorded on the title-page. The Latin text comprises a description of the duties attached to his new status, testimonials by academic members of the university, and notarial attestations with stamps and signatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA surname common in Lombardy, the Maggi family is also recorded in Ticino, with a branch attaining some notability in Mendrisio (Oldelli, p. 105). In 1593, a Fabrizio Maggi of Lugano is documented among the contractors for the fortifications of Casal Monferrato on behalf of the Duke of Mantua (\u003ci\u003eBollettino storico della Svizzera Italiana\u003c\/i\u003e 20–25 (1898), p. 181). As a native of Ticino, the southernmost canton of Switzerland, Bernardino belonged to the natio of the Citramontani (non-Bolognese Italians) rather than to the Ultramontani, the foreign students (French, English, Spanish, German, Polish, and Hungarian). His diploma, however, includes a portrait of Arnoldus, a fashionably dressed gentleman with a large white ruff, identified as the commander of the Swiss troops stationed in Bologna. Together with the depiction of the Swiss Confederacy’s Wappenbaum (cantonal tree), the portrait underscores Bernardino’s connection to the Confederacy. This fluidity between Italy and the Swiss Confederacy is further stressed by the arms of the Odescalchi family on the title-page likely alluding to the Italian family’s ties with Lugano: prominent bankers from Como, the Odescalchi maintained in fact close links with the region, much of which then fell under the diocese of Como. The presence of the arms of Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, and Castro (r. 1592–1622) may reflect his connection with the Collegio Ancarano of Bologna, where he studied and of which he later became ‘dominus ac patronus’ (see Lines, p. 111).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Bolognese Aristotelian Flaminio Papazzoni (d. 1614), Prior of Philosophy at Bologna and one of the signatories of the diploma, later obtained a chair at the University of Pisa on the recommendation of Galileo Galilei. In 1612 he was required by the Medici to engage in a debate with Galileo on the question of floating bodies. Apparently reluctant to oppose his benefactor, Papazzoni lost the dispute and, after it attracted considerable attention, was required to repeat it at the Medici court in the presence of the Grand Duke and Duchess, and the cardinals Maffeo Barberini (who supported Galileo) and Ferdinando Gonzaga (who sided with Papazzoni).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContents\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eTitle-page ‘Privilegia Domini Bernardini Maggii Luganensis. M.D.CIIX’, within an elegant gold cartouche surrounded by coats of arms, including the civic arms of Lugano, the arms of the Maggi family of Lugano (?) and those of the Odescalchi family of Como, flanked by four allegorical emblems, the whole within a magenta drape (f. 1r); portrait of Arnoldus (‘Duci Arnoldi Helvetiae stationis imago’) with Latin verses (f. 1v); Swiss \u003ci\u003eWappenbaum\u003c\/i\u003e (displaying, from the top, the arms of Zürich, Bern, Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus, Basel-Stadt, Fribourg, Solothurn, and Schaffhausen), superimposed on a double-headed eagle and surmounted by a crown and \u003ci\u003etreue Hände\u003c\/i\u003e (loyal hands); blank aside the decorative frame (f. 2v); coat of arms of Ranuccio I Farnese, within an exuberant gold cartouche decorated with cornucopiae and encircled by the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece (f. 3r); ‘In Christi Nomine Amen’ with a large and finely historiated initial ‘G’ incorporating grotesque human and animal heads (f. 3v; cf. similar initial ‘C’ on f. 5v); f. 20 blank aside the decorative frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the Bibliotheca Altempsiana, formed by the Austrian cardinal Marco Sittico Altemps (Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, 1533–1595), nephew of Pope Pius IV, and housed in Palazzo Altemps. In 1740, a substantial portion of the manuscripts entered the Vatican Library; the remainder, largely dispersed, was sold at auction in London in 1907 (Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge) and in Rome in 1908 (Rossi, Catalogue des livres et des manuscrits composant la bibliothèque des ducs d’Altemps; this manuscript lot 2838).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee Lines, The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (2023); Maggiulli, ‘I diploma di laurea: una fonte per la storia dell’università’, DigItalia (2021); Montalbani, Notitia doctorum: sive catalogus doctorum qui in collegiis philosophiae et medicinae bononiae laureati fuerunt ab anno 1480 usque ad annum 1800 (1962), p. 112 [9 February 1607: D. Bernardinus Madius Luganensis in U.C. 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Ecole Chrestienne, où le Miroir de la jeunesse, auquel elle trouvera, comme elle doit honnestement converser, aller, venir, parler; \u0026 plusieurs autres vertueuses instructions tres-utiles; \u0026 necessaires à la jeunesse: poëtiquement…","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eMirror for Young Catholics\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePICQUET, Gilles Jaques.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ecole Chrestienne, où le Miroir de la jeunesse, auquel elle trouvera, comme elle doit honnestement converser, aller, venir, parler; \u0026amp; plusieurs autres vertueuses instructions tres-utiles; \u0026amp; necessaires à la jeunesse: poëtiquement composé. \u003ci\u003eBrussels: Chez Martin de Bossuyt, Imprimeur juré de la ville\u003c\/i\u003e. 1668.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Recent half calf with marbled sides, spine ruled and lettered directly in gilt; pp. [viii], 63, [1 (printer’s device)]; woodcut initials, head-, and tailpiece, woodcut vignette to title, large woodcut printer’s device to final verso; trimmed close at head touching title and running-titles, uniform light toning; else a very good copy; contemporary inscriptions ‘XII.’ and ‘Oratorij Bruxellensis’ to title-page (see below); contemporary markings in ink to a few pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst and only edition, exceedingly rare, of this educational work in French verse on proper conduct for Catholic children.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in French alexandrine verse, \u003ci\u003eL’Ecole Chrétienne, or Miroir de la jeunesse\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive guide to cultivating civility and moral integrity in young people. The work is organised into thirty-five chapters, each providing practical advice with titles such as ‘Avoid incivility’, ‘Learn Latin’, ‘Respect the priests’, ‘How to behave in churches’, and ‘How to serve the table’. Nearly every facet of youthful propriety is addressed. Chapter twenty-five, ‘Avoid the Huguenots’, warns that ‘all their false loyalties are held together like the strings of a gated instrument, whose discordant sounds serve only to offend the ear’ – a sentiment that foreshadows the revocation of the Edict of Nantes more than fifteen years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirtually nothing is known about the author, Gilles Jacques Picquet, who here styles himself as ‘Maistre de la plume d’or’ (‘master of the golden quill’). The volume is dedicated to Antoine de Dyn, who became écolâtre (headmaster) of the cathedral school of Brussels in 1664 (see d’Hoop, \u003ci\u003eInventaire général des archives ecclésiastiques du Brabant\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also a dedicatory poem in French by the printer, Martin de Bossuyt the Younger with the chronogrammatic title ‘Etreines De L’an MILLe soIXante-hVIt’, on the act of printing the present work and the importance of its contents for young readers, describing the pages of the text as the glass of the titular mirror for youth. De Bossuyt would later be investigated by the Council of Brabant, along with Jan Mommaert and Philippe Vleugaert, for ‘the printing of books without a privilege or books suspected of heresy, and for the sale of defamatory booklets’ (Adam, p. 117).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: From the library of the Oratory of Brussels. The Congregation of the Oratorians was invited from France by Jacobus Boonen (1573–1655), Archbishop of Mechelen, to counter the expanding influence of the Jesuits. The Oratory was demolished in 1795, and its library dispersed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2119408\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313441382777,"sku":"2119408","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2119408a_40b14c5e-fc83-454c-be66-a6dceed07bbb.jpg?v=1787056386"},{"product_id":"ruggle-george-ignoramus-comoedia-coram-regia-maiestate-jacobi-regis-anliae-etc","title":"RUGGLE, George. Ignoramus, comoedia coram regia maiestate Jacobi regis anliae etc.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eSuch Vice the King Saw It Twice\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRUGGLE, George.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ignoramus, comoedia coram regia maiestate Jacobi regis anliae etc. \u003ci\u003eLondon: [Thomas Purfoot for] I. S[pencer].\u003c\/i\u003e 1630.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12mo. Contemporary English sheep, spine gilt-ruled in compartments, boards filleted in gilt with gilt floral centrepiece, preserved in a modern clamshell book-form burgundy morocco box (upper cover lettered ‘Phillip C. Broughton | 21.9.80’ in gilt; pp. [iv], 187, [1], with copper-engraved frontispiece depicting the titular Ignoramus; typographic headpieces, woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, woodcut labore et constantia device to title; somewhat rubbed and worn, a few slight abrasions to upper board, small loss to headcap; gift inscription in violet pencil to front free endpaper dated 2 October 1882, contemporary ownership inscription to title, ‘?J Nicholls’, contemporary annotation to rear free endpaper and pastedown (see below); a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition of the celebrated early Stuart Cambridge comedy, ‘by some distance the most successful of all the university plays’\u003c\/strong\u003e (D. K. Money).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe literary reputation of George Ruggle (bap. 1575, d. 1621\/2), Latin playwright and fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, rests on this virtuoso college farce, which was performed to great success at Trinity College during James I’s visitation in March 1615. The production was staged at considerable expense, with seating fitted in the hall to accommodate a large audience of courtiers and academics, reportedly as many as two thousand people. The contemporary letter-writer John Chamberlain reported that ‘the thing was full of mirth and varietie, with many excellent actors…but more then halfe marred with extreme length’ (Nelson, pp. 539–41). Despite its five-hour length, the play was enthusiastically received by the king, who requested a repeat performance at Royston on 13 May 1615. Less enthusiastic, however, was the actor Samuel Fairclough, who in the first performance refused to wear women’s clothes for the part of Surda, the old woman; as his biographer noted, ‘Thus did this youth choose to lose the smiles of the Court, and to bear the frowns of the Vice-Chancellour, rather than to hazard the loss of the light of Gods countenance’ (\u003ci\u003eibid\u003c\/i\u003e., p. 543).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in Latin, with passages in English and French, Ruggle’s college farce is based on the comedy \u003ci\u003eLa Trappolaria\u003c\/i\u003e by Giambattista Della Porta (1535–1615), itself an adaptation of Plautus’ \u003ci\u003ePseudolus\u003c\/i\u003e with additional elements drawn from several other Roman comedies. Satirising common lawyers, the subject was allegedly prompted by a local Cambridge dispute in 1611–12 which had led to friction between Francis Brakin, the town recorder, and the university. Brakin, evidently an unpopular figure, had previously been ridiculed in the third of the Cambridge \u003ci\u003eParnassus\u003c\/i\u003e plays (1602). Ignoramus’ titular character is a blustering lawyer whose mangled learning, professional arrogance, and misuse of barbarous law-Latin make him both fool and target. The play’s frontispiece depicts Ignoramus with his law books and manuscripts declaring ‘Currat lex’ (the law will run its course). Ruggle’s work provoked much resentment among lawyers, who retaliated with numerous rhymes and ballads in their defence; Chamberlain wrote that the play ‘hath so netled the Lawiers that they are almost out of all patience’ (p. 542). Subsequently the poet Abraham Cowley warned poets not to quarrel with scholars, ‘lest some one take \/ Spleene, and another Ignoramus make.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRuggle’s hero Ignoramus is often credited with popularising the English noun for an ignorant person, a meaning recorded almost immediately after the Cambridge performances.\u003c\/strong\u003e It appeared in two editions in 1630 (of which this is the earliest), and these were followed by a total of eleven subsequent editions throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was first translated into English by Fernando Parkhurst in 1660, followed by Robert Codrington in 1662, and was adapted for the stage by Edward Ravenscroft in 1678.\u003cbr\u003eRuggle was a major donor of books, over three hundred of which survive at the fellows’ library at Clare College, including many scarce French, Spanish, and Italian plays, and Latin treatises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvenance\u003c\/i\u003e: the front pastedown of our copy is inscribed by a contemporary reader ‘I know’, perhaps a playful rejoinder to the title’s Latin Ignoramus (‘we do not know’).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eESTC S116280; Greg II, L8(a). See Nelson ed., Cambridge (Records of Early English Drama) (1989).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57313935589753,"sku":"2125023","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125023e.jpg?v=1779383239"},{"product_id":"ravenscroft-edward-the-english-lawyer-a-comedy","title":"RAVENSCROFT, Edward The English Lawyer; a Comedy: Acted at the Royal Theatre.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eRavenscroft's Ruggle\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRAVENSCROFT, Edward\u003c\/strong\u003e The English Lawyer; a Comedy: Acted at the Royal Theatre. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Printed by J. M. for James Vade at the Cock and Sugar-loaf near St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street. \u003c\/i\u003e1678.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall 4to. Twentieth-century brown morocco by Sangorski \u0026amp; Sutcliffe for Phillip C. Broughton (initials P.C.B. gilt to upper board), turn-ins ruled in gilt, two raised bands, spine lettered directly in gilt, edges stained red; pp. [iv], 67, [3], bound without final blank K4; inner margin of title subtly reinforced, not affecting printed area, uniform toning, slightly foxed throughout; overall very good; twentieth-century Sotheran’s stamp, Sackville Street, to front pastedown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery scarce first edition of Ravenscroft’s adaptation of George Ruggle’s celebrated Latin comedy Ignoramus, first printed in 1630.\u003cbr\u003eEdward Ravenscroft (fl. 1659–1697), playwright, was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1659 and to the Middle Temple in 1667, though there is no evidence that he was called to the bar, and he appears to have devoted his attention mainly to literature. By the early 1670s he had turned to the theatre, becoming one of the period’s more active refashioners of earlier plays for the Restoration stage.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe English Lawyer is Ravenscroft’s English adaptation of Ruggle’s Latin comedy, first printed in 1630. Ravenscroft brings the celebrated university comedy to the public theatre, retaining the biting satirisation of loquacious and avaricious lawyers, but reducing the original five-hour performance to less than three hours. In addition to Ruggle’s original, Ravenscroft’s sources likely include earlier English translations by Fernando Parkhurst in 1660 and Robert Codrington in 1662, both of which represent faithful translations rather than attempts to adapt the play to the commercial stage. The result is a notable revival of one of the most famous academic plays of the Jacobean period, here recast for performance at the Royal Theatre in 1677.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavenscroft’s deftly crafted farce of mistaken identity follows the convoluted and ultimately unsuccessful attempts of the English lawyer Ignoramus to marry the Moroccan ward of a Portuguese merchant living in Smyrna, while offering a sharp critique of the jargon of common law. Ignoramus’ fondness for delivering pompous legal maxims in Latin self-consciously evokes the habits and speech of ‘the archetypal English lawyer of the early modern period’, Sir Edward Coke. Although the former Chief Justice had died in 1634, his writings remained the subject of debate throughout the seventeenth century. In the epilogue to The English Lawyer, Ignoramus exactly reproduces phrases drawn from Coke’s Institutes of the Laws of England: ‘Criticks are all free Subjects, and to be debar’d of their Liberty is directly against Magna Charta, the very fundamental Laws of the Realm’ (Raffield, p. 385).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavenscroft’s own legal associations give the choice of subject particular interest. His connection with the Inns of Court appears to have been somewhat unsettled: four years prior to the staging of The English Lawyer, on 30 May 1673, Ravenscroft’s chamber was seized for arrears in rent. More broadly, Ravenscroft is remembered as the first critic to posit that Titus Andronicus was not originally the work of Shakespeare, a position now known as the ‘Ravenscroft tradition’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis copy is the only example of any edition to have appeared at auction since 1993.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eESTC R7262; Wing R2211. 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