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Franciscan friar
Nov. 75
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Franciscus de Platea (Francois Francesco Piazza)[inserted] a theologian from Bologna [end inserted](d. 1424-1460)

Opus restitutionum usurarum et excommunicationum.
Johannes de Colonia & Johannes Manthen

BMC V p. 225 * 25 March 1474 Venice HC13038
4, 152 leaves, 2 col. 40 lines (155x107mm) Latin
Goff P 755 Type 78G' Capital spaces with guide letters. Catchwords
IDL 3704 Pr 4288 on every leaf & marginal paragraph numbers
Cornell (?). Librarius, Ithaca, N.Y., Huntington
B Maw CL

4*, 152 leaves, 2 col, 22 Jan 1477, 40 lines 151x105mm
Type 76G H.13040 Catchwords on last page of
most quires - page for page reprint of 1474 except for the table

- this partnership which is a reconstruction of that of J. de Colonia
and Vindelinus de Spina (1471-73) produced more than 12
books in 1474, the earliest to a precise late being the
Sallust of 23 March 1474, & continued in regular works
until 10 Oct. 1485. (published about 80 books)

A) Gothic Types B) Roman Types actually
Type 78G - ornate text type (Gothic) an admirative of types
S T 2 internal books, round tailed h, flat topped 3,
single hyphen.

Mention has already been made of J. de Colonia & his partner J. de
Manthen of Gennesheim near Dusseldorf in connection to
(Wendelin) 1st Venetian press - Vindelineus de Spira (took over from his brother Johannes
de Spira when he died in 1470), whose establishment they
took over about the turn of the years 1473&74. Both
were businessmen to no special qualifications either as
printers or scholars & their productions are undistinguished
in comparison to those of Jenson; nevertheless they
continued through the remainder of the 70's to be by
far the most formidable of his commercial rivals, the 2
firms between them virtually controlling the Venetian
book market. J. de Colonia was recently dead when in