Author: PANVINIUS , Onuphrius - [ ] Dirk van GROESBEECK ( Theodoricus a Groesbeeck ) - Egidius DURON de Huy ( provenances) :
Title: Fasti et triumphi Rom. a Romulo rege usque ad Carolum V Caes. Aug. sive epitome regum, consulum, dictatorum, magistror. equitum, tribunorum militum consulari potestate, censorum, impp. & aliorum magistratuum Roman. cum Orientalium tum Occidentalium,ex antiquitatum monumentis maxima cum fide ac diligentia desumpta. Onuphrio Panuinio Veronensi f. Augustiniano authore. Additae sunt suis locis impp. et orientalium, et occidentalium uerissimæ icones, ex vetustissimis numismatis quam fidel. delineatea
Description: .: Venezia, impensis Giacomo Strada, 1557, in-folio, 30 cm, (12) nn pp + 228 (=240) pp + (204) nn pp (index). Complete. Bound in later (17th c. ?) half leather. Boards covered with marbled paper, marbled endpapers, smooth spine with red leather title label. Some wear at extremities, title page a bit sustsoiled, but a very fine copy. Provenance. Bound before the title a mounted contemporary full page ex-libris. The ex-libris consists of a large woodcut printed coat of arms with blank spaces and a blank banner. These spaces have received manuscript coat of arms of the first owner and his wife: Theodoricus A Groesbeeck & Cecilia A. Rougrave; their names written in the banner. A note on the the title, dated 1593, confirms that Dirk Groesbeeck, gouverner of Huy castle (Citadel), donates the book to Aegidius Duron, priest at the Holy Mary Church at Huy (Huy at the Meuse river in Southern Belgium). In the top margin of the title another contemporary manuscript ex-libris of the Recollets convent in Liège ( Conventus Recollectorum Leodiensis). The first owner, Dirk van Groesbeek, was born in Kuringen (province of Limburg in actual Belgium). His brother Gerard van Groesbeek , appointed cardinal in Liège, by pope Gregorius XIII in 1578 played an important role in the religious wars in the Southern Netherlands.Interesting Venetian imprint on classical antiquity & numismatics; with a provenance history which gives a remarkable illustration of the spread of Renaissance culture in the princely diocese of Liège, part of the former Holy Roman Empire. .

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