289. Fuchs, Jo(annes) Christophorus: Paraphrasis...

... In omnes Psalmos Davidis, vario Carminum genere expressa.
Smalchaldiae, 1574. Michael Schmuck imprimebat. (379)p.
Our copy is a real sensation in Hungarian cultural history. According to the monogram on the first cover, it enriched the famous library of the richest lord of the turn of the century, Palatine György Thurzó in Nagybiccse. Many Hungarian and Slovak studies have been published about the library. In one of them (Könyvtárrendezés Thurzó György nádor udvarában 1611-ben), Mária Ludányi writes: "All of his extant books that I know of are bound in white blind-stamped leather or white vellum, with his initials on their cover: С G Τ R Η Ρ (Comes Georgius Thurzo Comes perpetuus de Arwa Regni Hungariae Palatinus)...". This clearly proves that our item is a re-emerged piece from one of the most significant Hungarian aristocratic collections.
Blind-stamped, contemporary leather with the initials of the late owner, Palatine György Thurzó: C G T – R H P
VD16 B 3229.; BNH Cat 0
 
Starting price: 300,000 Ft