farfel_n03_098_180

180
Feb. 1984
Dawsons, L.A.
$35
Nider, Johannes. (1390-1438) Weremberg
Sermones aurei de tempre + de sanctus cum
quadragesimali
Reutlingen: Michel Greyff (cs 1478-1514), not after 1480. folio.
Ref: Goff N-219 HC 11798 BMC II 577
Cop: HEHL, PML

265 leaves, 154, 183-265 blank. 2 col. p. 8 Serma II. 451. 2 headline.
196(205)x131mm Type 87a Capital spaces. The
headlines give the sermon numbers.
Haebler plate 74. Stanford has p. 37 Sermo XIX
87a - small text type on a very narrow body.
- The 1st dated book in which Greff's name has been
found is the Dicta super summulas Petri Hispani of
Johannes Tinctor completed 11 June 1486. Thence forward
till the end of the century his career is straightforward.
(undated works as early as 1478).

Haebler - "The earliest book of the presses at Reutlinger sometimes
bear the name of the place where they were printed, seldom
the year + never the name of the printer. Therefore it has
only been possible to ascribe the books to the one or the
other of the 2 competitive presses, Greff + Otmar
by arguing from details, the conclusiveness of which
has not been generally recognized. There was a time
when the type with which Niders Sermones is printed was
considered as being one of J. Otmers. But as the forms
of the majuscules of this type have an unmistakable
similitude with those of the Strassburg type which Greyff
proposed +farther, as in one book this type was used
to gether with one of the Strassburg types it has been
thought that all the books printed with it should be
ascribed to M. Greyff + not to J. Otmar. What is
remarkable in this type is that the stiff majuscules