farfel_n02_011_068

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Oct 77
$10.
UCLA Book Fair
-Dawsons
Johannes Nidu (! 1380 c. 1395-1438)
Summones de Tempore et de santis cum quadeayesimali
Esslingen: Connad Fyner 1476-78? fo
( [?] Ulm)
Ref: Goff N215 BMC II 517 Ham 11799 Pn 2481
Cop: HEHL, UNCL

372 lewes, 34 lines 197x 130 mm Type 120(115)
capital spaus

the earliest book connected to Connad Fyner is that of 1472
in the weighed Secunda secundae of Thomas Aquinas
in his 96 type. After 1481 his name does not occur
in any book.
(thoelogian, writer, diplomat and reformer)
J. Nidu - celebrated Dominican preacher of Isny im
Suebia. Trim of the Dominican convent in Nuremburg.
He participated in the deliberations of the Councils of
Comstana and Basle and was interested in the attempts to
achieve a reconciliation to the Hussites in the 30's of the
15c.
-entered the order of preachers at Colman c. 1400. 1423 became
professor of theology at the Univ. of Vienna. Pain of Nuremburg
(1423-9) principal work the Formicaius (5v. 1517)
-was written in 1437.

The uprising of national and contemporary authorship in Germany
from under the heavy weight of medieval work, mostly
foreign which at first occupied the attention of the early
printers to the exclusion of everything else.

During the Time to was in Esslingen, C. Fyner produced
almost all his books in one type only.