farfel_n01_042_024

24 Nov 75
7.50
Argonaut

BMC V p.193 Franciscus (Franz) Renner, de Heilbronn (Germany) Venice [1476]
(c 1225-1274) Thomas Aquinas. De veritale catholicae
fidei - Incipit tabula capitulos libri contra II
gentiles beati (Thome de Aquino.) 1226? - 1294

[inserted] Goff T192 [end inserted] Franciscus Reyner & Nicolaus de Frankfordia (1476) F* & 4*
A) Systematic Theology - Summa contra gentiles, sive
De veritale catholicae fidei (on the truth of Catholic Faith)

folio & quanto - 286 leaves 2 col. 41 lines 153x106mm
(quires are mixed) Types 150 G. first line of text of each book;
LXXXII-LXXXIII Latin 75 G text. Capital spaces. Many pages.
H. 1386. (center of page)

contain 42 & 43 lines
some of the paper water marked on the lower edge. 7 90mm 36mm 23mm
rounded with tail level with line
single small sloping hyphen
S [with]both loops enclosed
narrow rough a, broad e

- a printer who did much fine work
1473 Nicolaus de Frankfordia [inserted] for about 5 years (1473) (printed 1473-15160 [end inserted] -> gothic letter
1471-2 roman fonts for about 5 years (1497)

The 1st book connected with Renner's of Heilbronn, Germany press is dated 1471, the
1st to which he put his name is of 1472. From 1473
to 77 he worked in partnership with N. de Frankfordia +
[inserted] 16 large books [end inserted] in 1477 + 1478 with Petrus de Bartua. In the course of
1478 he made a fresh start alone + continued to print
regularly until 1483. (produced at least 17 books)
Franz Renner began 1471 - no book bears his imprint
after 1483 - made 9 faces of type - 3 Roman +
several sizes of Gothic form _ 2 of his Gothic sizes
were very small.
Biblia Sacra Latina (1476) 2nd edition of the Bible
printed in Venice. Thomas Aquinas was the great systematizer of Roman
Catholic thought. -"