farfel_n03_141_201

201
Feb. 85
S.F. Bookfair
N+N Pavlov, Dobba Ferry NY
$15
Biblia Latina.
Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476. folio
Ref: Goff B-547 HC 3061 BMC V 176 Pr. 4100 GW 4220.
Cop: HEHL, PML Marcus K5
-rubricated with 2l. initals in alternate red +blue. (302x198mm)
unnumbered - 470 leaves, I + 340 blank. 2 coL. b in register. 3a: 521. +
headline, 197 (213)x127mm.
Types 106 G, headlines (names of books), 1st words of
each books - large text type, broad + angular,
7 or 8 Vellum copies known the captials with little ornament, A D N P S V
diamonded. In use from 1474-77 for text
*84 (75)G, text, chapter numbers - Text type
in use in + after 1476.
Captial spaces. Printed signatures. (93G) -
Among the earliest, if not the 1st Bible with signatures printed within the text.
The 1st Bible from the famous press of Jenson, the French printer
from whose Venetian press came nearly 100 of the finest books
published in the 35th C. When Jenson issued a 2nd ed. of the Latin
Bible [inserted] See #271 [end inserted] in 1479, Pope Sixtus IV conferred upon him the honorary
title of Count Palatine.
(b. 1420) Jenson - a native of Sommevaire, come 35 miles east of Troyes (about 150m south east of Paris)
- Up to the year 1501 the Bible had appeared in more
than 90 Latin ed. as well as some 30 vernacular ed.
in 6 languages.
Harvard Library Bulletin Oct. 1980 Vol. XXVIII #4
Roman type + the printing programs with which it is closely
associated can thus be regarded as an intergral part of the Renaissance
humanism which gave no linear perspective, proportioned architecture,
+ the empirical measurement of astronomical phenomenon. The
type faces first used in Italian printing were not simply part of a
copying system They were rather a direct manifestation of the
pricviples which, in the most advanced circles, were thought to
motivate the texts most worthy of preservation + distribution.
Roman letters were in themselves evidence of an all-pervasive
underlying rational order. It was the guest for this order that