farfel_n02_024_073

73 Oct. 77
$10 UCLABookFair
-Dawsons
Hemicus de Herpf (=Hem. Herphius) c.1405-d.1477-8)
[inserted] the only works by Hemicus de Herpf printed during his lifetime.[end inserted] Speculum ameaorm decem praeceptorium Dei [inserted] also printed by: P Schoeffer 1474 1 A. Koberger 1481 2 [end inserted]
Basel: Johann Froben 1496. 4
Ref: Goff H41 BMC III 791 HC 8526 Polaim (B) 1865
Cop: HEHL, LC 3rd edition
York Cathedral L.
380 leaves, 2 col. 54 lines + headline 167(173)x111mm
Types 180, title (in use 1494-5); 120 headlines + 1st
line of sermons (rounded Gothic heading type); 86, headings
(med. Gothic Type); 62b text (in use from 1492)
Capital spaces, to guide letters. The headline give
the number of commandment + of the sermon.
with marginal section letters Septimo- Sermo XIX
De decalogi- Precepto
Forben's press reached the summit of its craftmanship
in the 16th C. when Erasomus of Rottendam was
working in it. At that time Froben distinguished
himself especially as a printer of litergical books.
printed wmore than 250 works mainly in Latin + Greek - died 1527.
Basel: not more than 15000 population in the middle of the 15th C
[margin] Z176 B2J6 A. F. Johnson [end margin]
- a free city of the Holy Roman Empire
- on the much used road from Italy through S. Germany
to the Netherlands
- founding of the University in 1460.
- 1501 became a member of the Swiss - federation
- printing introduced by Berthold Ruppel of Hanan, a
pupil of Gutenberg.
- Amenbach introduced Roman founts in Basel
- Amenbach's death (1513) left as the 2 leading Basel
printers Adam Petri of Lungendorff, a nephew of
Johann Petri, Amenbach's {?} + J. Froben,
also a {?}
- H. Holbeim came to Basel form his native city of
Augsburg at teh end of 1514 on early 1515. He was