farfel_n04_133_287

Dawsons 287
Los Angeles
June '89
$30.00
Augustinus, Aurelius. (354-430) Plate 23 - Haebler
Opuscula. (De academicis - other tracts)
Eusebius Conradus ; Thaddaeus Ugo letus , ed. -
See
#432
additions by Severinus Chalcus.
Parma : Angelus Ugo letus , 31 March 1491. folio.
Ref: Goff A-1220 HC 1952 IGI 1018 BMC VII 944 GW 2867
1982
$1250
Copy: HEHL, LC(T) Paris, BN , Oxford B.dl. , FolgSL.
(#102530)
306 leaves, the last blank. 5a : 41 lines & headline (title &
number of book) 228 (239) x 123 mm. Capital spaces,
mostly - guide letters.
Types : 111R - text type, neat & regular, a revival of that of
the printer of the 1480 Jerome, q.v. from which it differs
only in having a more heavily dotted i, no roman y &
(in the books of 1488 & 91) clumsy u with long thin
contraction-stroke. In use to 1494.
111Gk - lower case, without accents or btreathings. Here found
only in the 1491 Augustine.
GW2867 306 B1 40-41Z. Type: I :110R Min. f. Init.
Druckermarke : I. Kol.-Tit. Marginalien.
Du guantitate animae - a4b.
begins - De academicis.

The first known book attributed to Ugoletus is an Aleaxnder,
Doctrinale, of 29 Nov. 1486. He produced further books
in 1487 & 88, from 1491 to 96 & in 1499, but his press
never seems to have been active for longtogether.

This series of 19 tracts attempts to elucidate the spiritual truths &
to combat the scepticism of the New Academy. All were seperately
published earlier, alone or in other collections.
Ugoletus was librarian to Mathias Corvinus, king of Hungary, &
tutor to his son John. Parma imprints of the period are
uncommon & BMC records but 8 printers - a total output
of 35 titles before 1501.