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- over 50% of the writers whose words were printed
in the 15th C were Italian.
15th C. authors heavily
outnumber all the other
writers whose books were
printed in this century.
-some 72%

Incumabula - 45% - religion
10% - law
10% science
30% - literature
5% - misc.

Clande Marks 914.4031 M34 (Santa Clara) Apart from the influence of Provencal verse in Italy + Catalinian
the most vital impact fo the great use of troubadour poetry
was felt in Germany + Austria with the Minnesingus of the
late 12th + 13th centuries. The Manesse Codex is the largest
collection of Minnesingen poems It was compiled in Zurich
in the early 14th Century. SOng manuscript from the Abbey of
Weingarten now in Stuttgart.

Point System - originated in 1737 with Puine Fournier
72 points to the inch
1 point = 0.0138"
with 12 points making 1 pica
"brevier" = 8 points

Colin Clair
1472 The 2nd
press in Milan was
established by
Philippus de
Lavagnia. His name
is last found in
1490.

Scholderen 50 Essays Panfilo Castaldi (1471) - 1st printer - Milan
a) Antonius zarotus (his foreman)
b) Philippus de Cavaniis of Lavagna
1st book - 25 March 1472.
60 or so books connected with him
1st foreman - Joannes de Sidriano.
2nd - Valdarfer.
3rd - Pachd + Scinzenzeler.
after 1480 - Lowagna wored as a traveller for a publishing
independent editions.)

although the owner of a press
it is doubtful if Lavagna
was the actual printer
of the books he published
wich were prob. the
work of his 1st
foreman - Sidriano

- Milan produced more than 810 incunabula - Bologna about 300.

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