farfel_n02_130_113

113
3L = $7.19
Sept. '80
London - Charles Traylen

See #21 Nicholaus de Lyra (c 1270-1349)
Postilla super Psalterium (Postila of N de Lyre on the Psalter)
Paris: Ulrich Gering, 5 Nov. 1483. 40

Goff N. 123 HC 10378 BMC VIII 25 Polain (B) 2831 diii (of 8)
Cop Newberry Library, Chicago Ill. Mazarine #1440 folio 28 (of 306)
Rubricated in red + blue to yellow (capitals)

309 leaves, 39 lines, 155x28 mm Types 100R, text of Psalms;
80R, An alphabet of minute gothic lower case is used for
reference letters in the text of the Psalms. Capital spaces to guide
letters. Division marks shaped L are used in both text
and gloss.

80R text Type. Flat Topped A. narrow H, wide M + V. In use
100R large text type. In and after 1478.

-of Constance, died 1510, had been student at Basel Univ.
Ulrich Gering - his association to Fringurger + Crantz having come to
an end in Jan 1477/8 + 27 Sept 1480, Guillermus
Maynyal signed 5 editions as his partner. Gering's name is
not again found until 9 June 1482 + disappears after
1484 for a considerable time, being only mentioned once
in 1491, until he resumes regular printing to Bentold
Rimbolt on his partner on 8 may 1494 + continues to do so
until the end of the century - printing office - rue de Sorbonne.
Together to his colleagues M. Friburger + M. Cantz, U Gering set up
the 1st press in Paris in 1471. At 1st they were in the pay of
the protesors J. Heynlim + G. Fichet who had provided the
necessary premises in the building of the Borbonne. But in
1473 they set up their own press in the rue St. Jacques,
in the hose "subsole aureo."