[EXLIBRIS:31729] Re: Wolfgang Engelbert von Auersperg

[Eva Guggemos <eva.guggemos@yale.edu>]

Might the name be Count Wolfgang Engelbert von Auersperg of Carniola 
(1641-1696)?

His genealogy is here: 
http://www.worldroots.com/foundation/european/theoauerspergdesc1362-2.htm

His family seems to have had a library. According to the Yale catalog, his 
ex-libris is in several of our books & manuscripts:

Kobavius, Andrej, 1593-1654. Vindiciae astronomicae theticae pro Dionysio 
cognomento Exiguo... Viennae : Typis Gregorij Gelbhaar, 1643 [i.e. 1644].
Goclenius, Rudolph, 1547-1628. Psychologia. Marpurgi : Ex officina 
typographica Pauli Egenolphi, 1590.
Zwo kurtzweilige, lustige, vnd lacherliche Historien ... In Schwabischen 
Hall : Getruckt vnd verlegt bey Johann Lentzen, 1643.
MS 652. Hours of the Virgin; Bound with: Life of the Virgin; Pilgrim's 
Guide to the Churches of Rome. German. South Germany or Austria, ca. 1475.

Try googling: "Wolfgang Engelbert" Auersperg

I hope this helps,

Eva Guggemos
Acquisitions Assistant
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Yale University

At 04:40 PM 11/21/2005, you wrote:




> I am currently cataloging a book entitled, "Breve e facil introdvzzione 
> alla geografia e trigonometria ...," printed in Padua in 1640. On the t.p. 
> there is an ownership inscription, "Wolfg. Engelb. S.R.S. [S.R.T?] Com: ab 
> Auersperg, Sup. Ca. Carn." together with the owner's shelf mark. I am 
> assuming that the full name is Wolfgang Engelb[recht] or [bert], that the 
> Auersperg is what is today called Visnja Gora in Slovenia, and that the 
> "Carn." is "Carniola" a territory of which Lai[y]bach [Ljubljana 
> (Slovenia)] was once the capital. In addition there is an armorial book 
> plate on the upper pastedown endpaper, with the name "Fuerstlich 
> Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zu Laybach".  I would be most grateful 
> if anyone could make more of the t.p. inscription than I have done. I 
> "googled" the term "Auersperg", and came up with a website for what 
> appears to be the castle in question, which appears to be used as a hotel 
> today. I would also be interested if anyone can provide any further 
> information on the library in question.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Dan Rettberg
> Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer
> Klau Library
> Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
> Cincinnati, Ohio
>
> drettberg@huc.edu
>
>
>
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