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118
Dec '80
Angonaut
$20

Catholicon - Joannes (Johannes) Balbus (d. 1298)
Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quadlinburg.]
Georg Husner -not after 1483. folio
(1473-1505) leaf 317 (standard copy)
Goff B24 Hain 2252. BMC I 130 GW 3186 Proctor 632
Cop HEHL, Stan U.L. in this copy 1st words underlined in red.

402 leaves, 2 columns to printed headlines. 57-58 lines (282x192mm)
Types 160, headlines; 91a (measuring 99, to psalter capitals),
text Spaces left for capitals, to guide letters.
-At first 4 sections - Orthographia, Ethimologia, Dissintestica, Prosodia
See #18 -The greater part of the volume is taken up by the Dictionary
which treats the etymology of the Latin terms in Vogue (word list)
during the Middle Ages.
-on encyclopedic dictionary - completed 1286.
combined the words of Papiss x Uguitio
-its availability owing to frequent printings made it one of
the most influential books of the 15th C.
-The Catholicon is a basic source for the Promptorium, (ca 1440)
(earliest Latin -English dictionary) as its seems to have been
for most lexicons, Latin + bilingual in the 2nd 1/2 of the
15th C.
The printer of Jordanus de Quedlinberg, who produced about 10 editions
from 1483 or earlier to 1502, was the most active anonymous shop of
the 15th C. E. Voullieme attempted to identify him as the Strassbyrg
Printer Greorg Husner (Zentralblatt fur Bibliotheks wesen 32, 1915: 304-21).
V. Scholderer hes argued persuasively that although Husner may have
had some connection to the shop he is not likely to have been its master.
(50 Essays, pp. 240-243). From 1486 onward, virutally all the Jordanus
Press books have precise completion date reckoned by saints'
days. GW 3186 - 394 Blot Type 1:160 G 2:99 G (BMC 99A, 99B-
both by 1483 filed to (P2, P3) 91. Text types Before 1483 Lombardic
majuscules are used to 99B chiefly for dictionary work.)
Type 160 (P1) used throughout. Title + headline type. to large + small face respectively