Jean Grolier
Jean Grolier de Servières, vicomte d'Aguisy (* 1479 in Lyon , † October 22, 1565 in Paris ) was a French nobleman and lover of art and books.
Grolier stayed during the years 1510-35 as field paymaster general and French envoy in Italy, especially in Milan and Rome . Returned to France, he worked as a tax officer (trésorier général) from 1537. He died in his Hôtel de Lyon in Paris in 1565.
In Italy he became acquainted with the printer Aldus Manutius and there he began to lay the foundation for his book collection, which eventually rose to 3,000 volumes.
Approx. 350 copies of these had come to light by 1889, all of which are distinguished by a brown cover, mostly made of calfskin, which is provided on both sides with a flat ornament made of stripes and plant arabesques.
These grooved volumes, which are often imitated as patterns in bookbinding (bindings in grooved style ), all bear the Latin inscription Io. Grolieri et Amicorum (ie property of Jean Grolier and his friends); most of them (around 60) are owned by the Paris National Library. The price for an engraving tape at auctions in 1889 ranged between 600 and 1200 francs.
The bibliophile Grolier Club , founded in New York in 1884, is named after Jean Grolier. The American publisher Grolier is also derived from his name, it was taken over by Scholastic in 2000 .
See also
- Codex Grolier , manuscript in ancient Mayan script that was not discovered until the 1970s.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Grolier in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Grolier, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grolier de Servières, Jean; Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Jean; Grolier de Servières, Jean d'Aiguisy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art and book lover; Politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1479 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1565 |
| Place of death | Paris |