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Apologies for cross-posting.
I am researching the French book collector Jacques Thiboust (1492-1555) and
would be grateful for any new insights. Thiboust was one of the earliest
French collectors to use an armorial ex libris and his mark and books were
discussed by Arthur Rau in ‘The Book Collector’ in 1961-1962 (Autumn 1961,
pp. 331-332 and Summer 1962, pp. 212-213). Rau cited Hippolyte Boyer’s Un
ménage littéraire au Berry (Bourges: 1859) as the main source for
biographical details, and provides a brief census of seven known books from
his library, to which a further 3 are added by correspondents. Thiboust is
briefly discussed in A. Kolb’s article, “Ein Exlibris des 15. Jahrhunderts?”
(Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1961, pp. 249-254).
I would be very interested in :
• References to Thiboust elsewhere, biographical or otherwise.
• Details of books from Thiboust’s collection which have come to light since
1962.
• The current location of Thiboust’s copy of a French translation of
Josephus by Guilliaume Michel, published in Paris in 1539. This item, seen
by Boyer in the library of one Hiver de Beauvoir in the 1850s, has since
disappeared
• Someone who might be prepared to provide me with a good-quality digital
image of Thiboust’s woodcut armorial stamp which frequently accompanies a
painted-in ex-libris.
Many thanks.
All best
Ed Potten
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