farfel_n02_100_100

100 Nov. '79.
Madliger - Schwab
Zurich
55F + $33.13 (fl. 350 - 420) 343 340 [c. 374 c. 420]
St. Hieronymus (Eusebius Hieronymus) St. Jerome
Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum [inserted] "the paradise of the Father" -the literature of antique eremitism [end inserted]
[German] Leben der heiligen Altvater p. 89
[See #236 #476Strassburg: press unassigned, about 1482?]
1st ed of the German translation of the Vitas Patrum. Egypt - Holy Father John - age 90
Goff H-216 HC 9603 Schr 4216 [inserted] cites only 5 copies besides that in the BM [end inserted] [Pr. of Ant: christus]
Pr 3251 BMC I p. 168 (IB 15348); BMC I XXVI
Fairfax Murray- German #199 [Gruniger].*
Cop Conn. UL (Ithaca, N.Y.) N.Y. PL(S)
Munchen HSB, Solothurn (Kantonsbiblio.)
*BMC I p. 168 Books Printed in Unassigned Types (to 1477 - 1482)
1 Hieronymus. Leben der heiligen Altvater (about 1482?)
Folion. 232 leaves, the 1st + last blank; also according to 147 gravures
Hain, 4 additional leaves of Table, which may have come
either at the beginning or the end. 34 5 lines, 195 x 137 mm.
(semigothic) - there appear to be only 4 books known in this type- Type 115 (see plate XVII) Large text type. Woodcut
capitals to end of quire [as], leaf 186; in the
remaining leaves spaces are left, mostly to guide letters.
106 woodcuts (about 85 x 134 mm) making to repeats, 147
There are no cuts in teh last 5 gatherings.
Capitals: (i) a calligraphic S, 55 mm in height, to
flourishes reaching across the page, (ii) ornamental
B, 60 x 50 mm; (iii) open white I, 23 mm; (IV)
'Maibumen' A, D, E, I IV, S, V + C, 25 x 25 mm;
(V) miscellaneous letters, A + I on black ground, an
open D, + C. One of the best 15th C woodcut books
printed at Strassburg. Without signatures or other marks.
2 Hieronymus. Leven der hilgjen Olt vader (low German)
(about 1482?)
folio. 232 leaves. 2 - 231 are numbered on both sides
I - CCXXX. 34 lines + leaf number in headline,
195 (210) x 135 mm. Woodcut capitals to leaf 18 (CIXXXVI)
H. 8609. Goff H222
[margin] 15 woodcuts including 44 repeats See Kraus catalogue 2999 K9105 f Ref. [end margin]