farfel_n02_039_076

76
June 78
Madliger-Schwab
Zurich $20.73=40F
Psalterium Latino Germanicum
Augusburg: Enherd Ratdolt [inserted] (1486-1522) [end inserted] 1499. p. LIIII
Ps lxxxi-lxxxii (82+83)
Ref: Goff P.1068 BMC II 390 Hain 13511
Cop: HEHL; Hmv Cl. LC Polain (B) 3275 Pr 1914
#(95536) my leaf g6 (of 8)
Quanto, 126 leaves, 15-124 numbered I-CX
2 vol. in register 44 lines of German translation 167x124mm;
27 lines of Latin text, 151 mm. 13 woodcut initials (3 repeat)
Types 180, Latin title + headings in calendar; 112, Latin text,
calopdon; 104 foliation; 92 German title; 76 German text,
calendar + register; 61 (?) letters, numbering verses.
Ratdolt also printed this same Psalter in 1494 HC 13510
The German translation is printed in the outer + lower margins
Enhard Ratdolt had been invited by Bishop Johann von
Werdemberg of Augusburg to return from Venice to his
native city + undertake the production of service books for
the diocese. He arrived in 1486 - worked on into the 16th C
+ died in 1527 or 8.
E. Ratdolt had been drawn to Venice where he printed a number
of handsome books from 1476 to 1486, including the 1st edition
of Euclids Elementa Geomitriac in 1482. He introduced decorative
woodcut borders + initial letters, among other importatnt contributions,
both mechanical + antistic, including the 1st seperate title page.
4th edition of the Psalter in Latin + German, the 2nd by
Ratdolt. The Psalms end on fol XCVI (m8) + are followed
by the Canticles, Catholica Fides etc.
-a page for page reprint of Ratdolt's previous edition of
1494 and in the same type.
[margin] Fairfax Mussay #346 [end margin]
Type 112 - Gothic large text + heading Type. Haebla M93 Has extra
forms of many letters at 1st - the Type presents a very different
appearence at different stages.
76 - Gothich text type of a very common Venetian form + size.
also used at Venican.