Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

May '76 32 Paris P. Broute 100 F = $21.50

Woodcuts -- attributed to A. Duren (1457-1520) Sebastian Brant Stultifera navis (Latin) Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe (CI) Mar 1498 4^o Professor at Fribourg + Ingolstadt. Translated by : Jacobs Locher "Philomusus" (1470/1-1528) H. 3751 GW 5062 Proctn 7778 Goff B 109 Cop Conn UL, Col UL BMauer CL. NYPL Schn 3571 Pell 2823 Polain (B) 4092 Colman, France 391. (additions by Thomas Beccadelli)

CLIX unnumbered leaves (a blank and 4 unnumbered bet. 144 and 145)

164 Bl. 302. Types: I: 109R, 3: 7702, 4: 220G Sign: a^8 - s^8 f^4-y^4, 117 woodcuts, 3 repeats

member of Basel --> Swise loafed since 1501

Manginalien. Goff B 1086 Stultifera navis[Das Narenschiff (German)] (Latin) Tr: Jacobus Locha [illegible]) Basel: J. Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 Mar 1487 4^o GW 5054 HC 3746. BMC III p. 795 Cop: Hanv CL, HEHL 148 leaves, 1-145 no numbered 30 lines and foliation and marginal references 165-6 (177) x 96 (118)mm Types: 220, title or most headings; 180 headings on 66, 70 r8b; 109^a text; 77 marginal references with woodcuts. (112, five of which occur a 2nd time = 117 total)

Goff B 1090 -- Aug. 1497 J. Bergmann, de Olpe HC 3750 (Latin) GW 5061 Johann Bergmann, de Olpe--his earliest signed and dated books belong to the year 1494 and he printed regularly till 1499. He lived on into the 16th C, but it is doubtful if he continued printing. Priest and Chaplain of Basel Cathedral. See Incunabula #157 Goff 1087-Mar 1497 H3747 GW 505512 Siecles #42 a reprint of GW 5054 Canter p. 90 At Basle Bergmann von Olpeprinted Sebastian Brandt's Navis stultifera, twice in March 1497, the 1st time in gothic, the second in Roman Goff B 1080 Das Numenschoff (German) 11 Feb 1494 H3736 GW 5041 B 1082 " " 3 Mar 1495 H3740 GW 5046

Feb. 11, 1494 editio princeps of Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff Basel: Johann Bergmann von Olpe. This work, illustrated with 1142 [inserted] 6 repeated [end inserted] woodcuts gained instantaneous popularity and imitations of the Basel edition were printed & circulated all over Germany. In 1497 Bergmann published a Latin edition by Jacob Locher, & 3 French & 2 English versions had appeared in 1509. The engravers of the cuts are not known.

1497 - Grüninger reprinted von Olpe's 1497 Basel edition.

A scholar at the Univ. of Basel - took an uncommon interest in illustrated books & had much to do [with] stimulating their production in Bard & elsewhere. Sebastian Brant, one of the most distinguished humanists of his day, wrote the Narrenschiff & supervised its illustration & printing in 1494 at the press of Johann Bergmann. The format & presswork of the book are not fine, but the illustrations are Basel's best, thought to have been made by the youthful A. Durer, who spent some time there in his early travels. Before the end of the year, pirated editions of the Narrenschiff appeared at Nurenberg, Augsberg, Strassburg & elsewhere. Bergmann printed a number of new editions in German & also in Latin, & the book quickly became the best known in Europe. Brant's influence on illustrated books extended to Strassburg where he went about 1494. (see J. Gruninger's edition of the Comedies of Terence - 1496)

Narenschiff [inserted] between 1494 + the end of the century there were at least 5 editions at Basel. [end inserted] -J. Bergmann -German editions 1494, 1495, 1496 7 + 1497 8 Latin editions 1497 (3), 1498.

Ref PR 2209 B82s. - The Ship of fools. London 1874 (facs.) Gunst Case Z239.2 C36B7 The Ship of Fools - Alexander Barclay's Translation from the Latin into English, published in London 1570. See p. 182 - Of the clatering and babling of Priestes and Clarkes in the gueere. (See H.P. Kraus - (Cat. 91 #391)

Sébastien BRANT Stultifera navis. Bâle, J. Bergmann de Olpe, 1er mars 1497. In-4*, ill. (GW 5 054). BNU K 944

Jurisconsulte et poète à ses heures, bourgeois au solide sense pratique, mais très profondément religieux, Sébastien Brant peut être considéré à la fois comme Strasbourgeois et comme Bâlois. Né à Strasbourg en 1458, il étudie le droit à Bâle de 1475 à 1484. Il professera même à la Faculté de droit, dont il devient le doyen en 1489. C'est à Bâle qu'il publie, entre autres, en 1494, son oeuvre la plus célèbre, le Narrenschiff, satire où il flagelle avec beaucoup d'ironie vices et travers. Brant ne revint à Strasbourg que vers 1500; il y fut chancelier de la ville de 1503 à sa mort en 1521. Le Narrenschiff connut de nombreuses éditions en allemand, latin, français et néerlandais. Celle qui est exposée est la première impression de la traduction latine (due à l'humaniste Jacques Locher Philomusus et révisée par Brant). Les illustrations sont reprises de l'édition originale allemande du 11 février 1494. Dans leur majeure partie elles sont l'oeuvre d'Albrecht Dürer, qui les a gravées durant son séjour bâlois (1491 ou 1492): cf. Friedrich Winkler, Dürer und die Illustrationen zum Narrenschiff. Berlin, 1951.

Dessinateur de génie, Dürer, peintre et graveur sur bois et sur cuivre, né et mort à Nuremberg (1471-1528), n'a que peu collaboré à l'illustration de livres. Ses suites le plus connues, l'Apocalypse (1498), la Grande Passion (1498-1510), la Vie de la Vierge (1502-1510) et la Petite Passion (1509-1511) sont de recueils de planches qui ne peuvent guère être considérés comme des livres imprimés illustrés.

The original edition was a quarto t 115 illustrations 1493 - 1st edition of Der Ritter vom Jurn. Basel: J. Bergmann von Olpe. This German translation of the original by the Chevalier de Latour de Landry was illustrated by an unknown artist who has been identified with the young Dürer.

Bergmann de Olpe - printer 1494-1524. Printing was introduced into Basel by Berthold Ruppel of Hanau e pupil of Gütenberg. 2nd/Michael Wenssler 3rd/Bernard Richel.

Narrenschiff - a distinct departure from the type of woodcut illustrated book which imitated illuminated manuscripts. Above all, it reflects the close cooperation between a leading printer, an inspired artist & a distinguished contemporary author.

S. Brant - edited an illustrated edition of Columbus' account of his discovery of the New World.

He was no doubt a relation of the Petrus in Altis (Bergmann) de Olpe who printed in Cologne in the 70's.

The Ship of Fools laden t & steered by fools, sails to the Fools' Paridise of Narragonia. All manner of folly is dipicted.

Brant's motto was "Imperitis pro lactione pictura est" to the unlearned a picture is the best text.

an example of those all too sore pieces of writing which perfectly catch the spirit of the era & minor it for future generations.

33 May '76 Paris gift -

Georges Heilbrun 3 rue Git - le - Coeur b. Venice - 1433 (d. 1527)

- from an incomplete volume with a French hand dated 1612 + signed F.D.

Franciscus Columna Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus. for Leonardus Crassus. Decm 1499 f0 Sale 1981 125.00 L

Goff C 767 HC 5501 GW 7223 IGI 3062. BMC V p. 561 Cop HEHL, Stan UL. (314x206 295x198mm) 234 leaves, 39-41 lines, 225x134mm e6 (of 8) Types 115 R [inserted] in use from July 1499 onwards [end inserted]; 114 Gk; 82 R., first title, enata, matter in guines q, r, + elsewhere. 39 woodcut initials 172 woodcuts by unknown artist 170 1 woodcuts. (168) (1st book - 151 cuts, 2nd - 17 cuts)

the author blended 3 conceptions in this book: the humanist 10 full page idea of the revival of classical culture, following the ideas on architecture of L. B. Alberti, the old courtly conception of love, + the alchemical conception of the transmutatio of matter. The language of this work is a north Italian dialect interspersed with Latin + Greek words.

114 Gk - cursive text type. In use from Aug. 1496 to end of 1499

Though Aldus's merits as a fine printer have, like those of Jenson + Plantin, been exaggerated, his influence upon the printed book is certainly important. He began printing + publishing with great S. Morrison energy in 1495, + before the end fo the century had printed some 37 volumes. His reputation, however, was made with books of smaller format. Aldus, indeed, wrought a remarkable change in printing + the Poliphilus is practically his last example of a large book. In spite of the excellence of F. Griffo's roman letter, the Poliphilus woes its reputation entirely to its cuts.

- the author has 2 main interests, the love story (heroine - Polia) + the architectural setting to the characters. The Poliphilus his all the elements that made for success in that age. It is euphirstic, luscious, pagan in sentiment + crammed with classical learning.

Warren Chappell - The special innovation of Aldus + Griffo, in the romans, was their use of the calligraphic practive fo making the capitals shorter than the ascending letters of the lowercase. This corrected one of the color problems of Jenson's Types: a Tendency of the large capitals to be spotty in the Type mass.

In 1500 he founded the New academy of Hellenists in Venice.

(d. 1450 49 - 1515) Aldus Monatius [inserted] The Latin name for teobaldo Mannucci (Born in Sermoneta, Italy) a little town of the Roman states [end inserted] was the first great scholar printer. He was interested in printing the unpublished classics of Greeks & Latin literature. By 1498 his press had published its first work of great importance, a large 5 volume Aristotle. The following year, Aldus printed The Dream of Poliphilus which was commissioned by a wealthy merchant and was written by the Dominican friar Colonna. The story of the lover's search for his beloved in a classical landscape led to a series of illustrations by an unknown artist in which for the 1st time in a printed book, classical architecture & objects were printed in the greatest detail. Throughout the roman text, cut by Francesco Griffo, are scattered classical objects & fragments, making an ingenious variety of page arrangements. It is small wonder that the Poliphilus took Europe by storm. It is said that in France this one book was responsible for the changeover, in the first quarter of the 16C, from the gothic to the roman letter.

one of the world's most beautiful illustrated books.

the only book Aldus issued with numerous illustrations. [inserted] 172 varying sizes (11 full page, some without borders 39 woodcut initials [end inserted] In Italy, Aldus Manutuis' intent on making the classics reality available, produced in the year 1501 a revolutionary new edition: an octavo Virgil, set in the first italic type. The type designed by Francesco Griffo was based on a cursive version of the humanistic script.

After Aldus' death Feb 1514/5. his press was carried on throughout the 16 C first by his father in law & then by his youngest son Paul. Their title pages bore Aldus' mark, the anchor & dolphin. D.L. Fierz Hypnerotomachia - an artificial & singular word invented by the author - composed of the Greek words for dream, love, & strife. Between 1499 & 1833 it was reprinted 10 times.

1st book t date - the Greek Grammar of Lascenis - 1494. only 5 of his books are theological - most of them are grammars & textbooks of classic literature.