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#194 Smith, Rars Arithmatica p. 82
G. Reisch b. at Balirgen, Wurttenberg; died at Freiburg 1523.
He was a student at Freiburg in 1487 + took his bachelor's
+ masters degrees there. He then entered the Carthusian order +
became prior of the cloister at Freiburg + confessor of
Mak. I.
Strassburg, 1504 Margarita Philosophica.
40, 15.1x20cm, the text being 11.5x15.6 cm.
2ff blank + 289 unnumb = 291 ff, 45ll.
The illust. are hand colored.
1st modern encyclopedia. It contains a compendium of
the trivium, the quadrivium, + the natural + moral
sciences. It is made up of 12 books of which, the 4th
consisting of 15 folios in the present ed. is on arithmetic.

Whilst the majority of the printers were Zews, there were
amongst them 3 Christian printers, all of them from Italy -
of these the most important was the celebrated Daniel Bomberg of Venice, the
others being Facciotti de Montecchio of Rome + Petrus Parelus
Pouras Mediol enensis at Genoa + Turin.
The most remarkable figure among the early Jewish printers
was Hieronymus (Gershom) Soncino.

#195 The place of Frankfurt in the book trade was greatly enhanced by
the activity of the famous publisher Sigmund Feyerbend (1560-90)
who employed many of the best Frankfurt printers + invited
the leading German artist of his day to decorate his books,
among them the Nuremberg artist Virgil Solis + his pupil
Jost Amman.
#194 Sabin 69123 - an unauthorized version (reprint of the 1st ed with the addition
of a synopsis of Hebrew grammar in 20 leaves (on sig Fix to XIX
Fxxviiil - The large woodcut on the title was copied from the
1st ed. with slight variations.