[Re: Library/bookseller stamp III]

[Guenter Kroll <g.kroll@stub.uni-frankfurt.de>]

the following message sent directly to me leaves me in confusion about the 
requested stamp SAN.LAZ.PLA.COL.: 

Margery_H_Smith@pandora.stkate.edu wrote:
> I looked up the Vincentians (Lazarists, Paules)  because something about
> the dates didn't sit right.  I used the rvised Catholic Encyclopedia,  vol.
> 8, p. 584.  St. Vincent de Paul, a 17 c cleric in Paris, founded the group
> of priests; their initials are 'CM'.  Foundation date: 1617, so the
> incunabulum stamped 1496 can't have come from their library.
> There was an obscure St. Lazarus, a stylite  near Jerusalem and later
> Ephesus, who died in 1054.  Evidently there was great devotion to him  in
> the later middle ages.  His vita ws written first by a Gregory II Cyprius,
> and again in the 14 c by a monk named Gregory.  The priory was probably
> named in his honor, though I'm not sure which congregation or order had
> such a house in that place at that time.
> I believe the 'COL' refers to a "college"  operated at the religious house
> named for St. Lazarus.
> PLA -- escapes me.  I don't know enough Italian to recognize that
> abbreviation!
> Margery Smith, csj (stands for Congregation of St. Joseph)

As Almut Boehme asked for a library/bookseller stamp, I imagined rather a 
modern ink stamp on one of the leaves of the book, whereas Mrs. Smith seems 
to think of a 15 c. stamp on the book cover. If the question is not yet 
answered, could Miss Boehme give us more details about her stamp?

P.S.
For the stylite St. Lazarus, my encyclopedia (LThK) gives only 3 cloisters 
founded by him in byzantinic Greece, the last one called Agios Theotokos 
existed until the 16 c.
Looking up some Italian catalogues, I found also a Lazarus Placentinus: 
another idea for LAZ.PLA.?   

--
Guenter Kroll, Dipl.-Bibl./Librarian
Handschriften- und Inkunabelabt. / Manuscripts and Incunabula Collection
Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Germany        
email: g.kroll@stub.uni-frankfurt.de / phone: ++49 69 21239250