Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

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Johannes Melber (15th C). lexicographer from Gerolzhofen. [inserted] lived about 1483 [end inserted] BMC I p 119 Goff M 464 Vocabularius Praedicantium, suis Variloquus Strasburg - Johann Prüss - June 1, 1486. Quanto, 236 leaves, 32 lines (145x83mm.) copy HEHL Types 180, title & headings; 90 text. 2 to 7 line spaces left for capitals H. 11040

- also same work - 1488 by Prüss (36 lines) 80, text type. Johann Mentalin (d.1478) first Strasburg printer

Prüss (l'aine)- earliest known dated book is the Formulare of 1483 (H.7260) - printer at Strasburg from 1480 to 1510 - originally from Wertemberg - specialized in editions of popular works in German - succeeded by his son of the same name who carried on until 1546

Type 90 - 2nd text type used in 1486-88. Used also by Peter Drach of Speier 180 - used also by Grunninger - by Drach.

Renaissance Theology - This preacher's guide was often used. It had several incurabula editions.

1486 - Prüss printed the 1st Bible to a title page. Norma Levarie p. 97 - Johann Prüss is another printer whose books, while lacking the controlled beauty of Zainer's best books had often a votality of their own. His 1488 edition of Bidper's Directorium humanae vite, a book of ancient fables, is set in extremely fine, even, but black gothic type whose letters is repeated in the cutting of the curious woodcuts. (J. Prüss le jeune - printer 1511-1531)

p. 63 Vol IV A. Claudin Jean Prüss L'Ainé (1447-1510) printer 1480-1510 -> pendant cette période il n'a pas fait executrs moins de 654 bois - son premier ouvrage daté Formulaire und Tutsch Rhetorica parut en 1483.

Prüss became a citizen of Strasburg in 1490. He seems to have been a Swabian from Herprechtstein who inarticulated in 1474*

Tannenbaum p. 114 Parentheses or "round brackette," were employed very early & with remarkable frequency, especially in dramatic dialogue.

* at Ingolstadt & settled in Mentelin's Haus zum Tiergarten."

HEHL Rubricated in red - each letter of alphabet i.e. new chapter I begins on M4 verso ends on P3 recto my leaf N7 end first 1/2 of the book. another ed - J. Pruss, 1488. Hain 11041. BMC I 122, not in Goff. quarto. 172 leaves, 36 lines Cat. Gimble - # 408 The work was compiled from the Sermons of Johann Eychmann de Kalb at Heydelberg and is a rich source of material on medieval Latinity + the German language.

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printed by W. de Worde in 1502, 6, 9, 11 - all 8 0. Manipulus curatorum - Cologne: Johann Guldenschaff about 1480 - f* HC 8168. Latin Copies HEHL, Yale Univ. Lib Oates 705. (295mm) with 1265-1330 (fl. 14th C.) Goff G 581 Fusigna, Jacobus H. 7399-7400 (see under Guido de Monte Rochen) Addi (a-08p6q4) - H. 8175, 8168, 8161 Rocherii (BMC) - 37 lines, 2 columns, 201x137mm, 122ff - extremely popular - a manual for priests - a handbook for curates. - pastoral theology - general treatise 1st book of Guldenschaff which is both dated & signed -> Albertus, Summa de eucharistia; April 30, 1477 (IB 4224) last book dated & signed is Auctoritatis Aristotelis, & c. 1487 (IB4251); last dated book not signed is Historie XI milium virginum, Oct. 31, 1494.

Gothic text type 110 - H&F are dentaled; Z has a notably large flourish below the line. Indistinguishable from Martin (Cologne) von Werdens Type of the same measurement. Guldenschaff did not use signatures with this type until 1479, or hyphens until 1481 (perhaps '80); but in short tracts the signatures are frequently omitted.

a letter or other symbol generally placed by the printer at the foot of the 1st page of every section to guide the binder in arranging the sections in sequence.

Manipulus - "a handful" - a subdivision of the Roman legion which had 30 of them (3 in each of the 10 cohorts.) Guldenschaff printed from 1472? 1477 to 1494.

Briguat Vol.3 -a former associate of Zel. #8731 p.468 - 31x42, Boppant, 1480 Coblentz., Starts - each.: Stradrechnungen

Lettre P (gothique) accompagné d'un ornement entre que le quatrefeuille. Un premier groupe, formé des types 8724 à 8748, ne revêt pas encore ce contactère personnel. Il ne se distingue des groupes précédents qu'en ce que le quatrefeuille est remplacé par un trèfle; à part cela on y trouve des p de mêmes styles que dans les autres.

[illustration with measurments of 68mm 27mm 17mm]

- Jacobus Fusigna: De arte [inserted] 12 practical wasy to shape ideas + examples into good sermons. [end inserted] [inserted] art of preaching [end inserted] praedicandi. Are [inserted] a lengthy mnemonic [end inserted] moriendi. Canones Poenitentiales [inserted] from the Summa confessorum of J. Friburgensis [end inserted] - Guido de Monte Rocherii, Manipulous curatorum - BMC Jacobi Gusigna de arte praedicendi libellus. [Incipit libell ar||tis predicationis aposit9 a fratire Ia||cobo fusigna ordinis frm p dicatoru.]

HC 8168 F. Ia: (sig a I) [ ] Euerendo in xpo||patri ac domo: || dno Raymudo || dillina puiden || cia sce valencia || sedis episcopo || Suo4 denoto 4 minimus quido || de Sig. (a-o8, p6, q4). (Signatures)

Manipulus cuatorum - printed by W. De Worde 1502 S.T.C. #12472, 6, 9, & 11. - also P. Pigouchet ou Manuel des Curés, par Guy de Montrocher. (parish priest)

- A famous & extremely popular manuel on the sacraments of the church, founded on best authority & for the increased knowledge of the least among priests. Written in 1333.

- Written by a 14th C Spanish theologian or a priest in Terual, Aragon. Pynson printed 2 editions in the year 1500 evidence of its usefulness & popularity.

HEHL 88050 rubricated in red my leaf n8 Tabula miij

"How-to" books are both a longstanding phenomenon & a useful enterprise. In the early Renaissance, if one wished to own an advice book on pastoral theology & the sacraments, that book was the Manipulus cuatorum. It was a runaway best seller in the 15th C. It was probably 1st printed in Paris in 1423 & that was followed by more than 50 inarable editions.

5 leaves (13, 17, 22, 24, 146) are extended by having additions pasted on them so as to receive large maps of Venice, Modon, Candia, Rhodes & Palestine.