Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

Some minor typographical variations are known inthis work, which are indications of state rather than issue.

F. Columna wrote this work as a memorial of his unhappy love for Polia. He had written the book at Treviso in 1467. Its publication in 1499 was paid for by one Leonardo Crasso of Verona.

A. Manutius Virgil Opera Venice 1501 - 1st book by Aldus in his newly invented italic type.

Hypnerotomachia - an allegory of remarkable subtlety in which Poliphilo's pursuit of his lost love in a dream symbolizes mans' striving after unattainable spiritual ideals.

Born in 1450 at Bassiano neat Velletri, Aldus studied at Rome under the 2 famous scholars, Gaspar of Verona & Domizio Calderini. From 1481 to 84, he was the guest of Count Pico della Mirandola. The friendship of this noble family bought unforeseen advantages & proved a major factor in the life of Aldies, for he was appointed tutor to Pico's nephews, Albertus & Leonellus Pius, Princes of Capri. He so inspired these pupils, that in later years the elder, Albertus, provided the money with which to found the Aldine Preso. The 1st books came out in 1494. By that time many of the Latin classics were already in print; therefore the majority of Aldus's books were in Greek.

Geroge Painter - "the Hypnerotomachia is radiantly & graciously Italian, classic, pagan & renascent."

Treatise on the theory of art & resthetics in the form of an allegorical love story, much influenced by the architectural works of Vitruvius & Alberti. The most celebrated illustrated book of the Italian Renaissance. The artist may have been Benedetto Bordone. The authorship has also been much discussed & is traditionally given to the debauched Dominican Friar, F. Colonna, but Fra Elisco of Treviso has been convincingly advanced (fl. 15th C.)

Besides the purely imaginative illust. there is a series of reproductions of Greek & Latin inscriptions which constitute the earliest corpus of this original source material.

34 May '76 Zurich100 SF = $40 L'Art Ancien

(1440-1514) Hartmann Schedel * Das Buch der Croniken und (born & died in Nuremburg) Geschichten (translated by Georg Alt) Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493 folio See also # 253 (German) (1440-1513) Blatt 173 H 14510 BMC II p. 437 Goff S 309 Cop HEHL, YUL, Stan UL 297 leaves, 11-296 numbered Fo. j-Blat CCLXXXVI Table and parts of the text in columns 59 lines and headline, 327 (340) x 225 mm Types 165, headlines (alter der werlt) & headings; III, text used again in Durer's German Apocalypse, 1498.

Albrecht Durer (1571-1528) Goff S 309 Liber chronicarum Nuremberg: Anton Kuberger HC 14508 BMC II p 437 Cop Stam UL (Latin) 12 July 1493 folio 326 leaves, 64 lines and headline 352 (366) x 223mm of this book more copies than any other incumabula exist. in all 1809 woodcuts printed from 645 blocks the most lavish if not the best illustrated book of the 15th C. The illustrated Wolgcmut & Pleydenwurff are generally best known for their apprentice Albrecht Durer. This is one of a very few 15th C illustrated books in which the illustrators are identified Hartmann Schedel was city physician of Nuremberg. Colin Clair Liber Chronicarum--> 65-66 lines to the page. woodcuts by Michael Wolgemuth und Wilhelm Pleydenwurf Durer's teacher from 1486-9 (1434-1519) (little known - birth d. before Feb 1495.) Primarily a picture book. *the contents of each page of text are the same as those of the original Latin edition as for as leaf CCLVIII, the cuts being the same except in variations in the smaller ones doing duty for kings etc. The 3 leaves left blank for additions in the Latin issue are omitted. Sold unbound & uncoloured at 2 Rhenish florins ($26), bound & coloured as six (78). 44 cuts of kings are used 226 times.

The German type is designed in Friedrich Creussner's Franconian style + has almost the same size as his - Haebler

Nuremberg Chronicle - the text ventured nothing less than a total world history - biblical, classical & traditional. The illustration scheme was immersely complex, embracing large double page topographical cuts of cities which break across pages in a variety of formulations, and figures scattered in & among the text in every imaginable way: over 1800 pictures in all. Closer examination shows that among the large blocks of cities, 22 illustrate 69 different subjects, & of the figures of kings, popes, & other personalities, 96 cuts are used to produce 598 illustrations. Cities & persons, regardless of epoch or place, are all in the prevaling German style.

Nuremberg became a free city in 1219. - Populations 20,000 - the first city in Germany in which paper was made. - here the first watches & terrestrial globes were invented - the 2 houses immediately south of Durers were occupied by Wolgemut & his step son Pleydenwurf. - Koberger contracted T foreign printers T. satisfy his trade -> A merbach - Basel, Sacon-Lyon, Gruninger-Strasburg, Johann Clein, Lyon.

The test of the 1st 5 folios of the Chronicle is set full width of the pages. The next 4 folios are set 2 columns to the page, after which there is no consistent pattern in this detail. - the sixth era extends from the advent of Christ to the coronation of Maximilian I as Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire in 1493. (3/5 of the book)

Hartmann Schedel's somers have been found to be principally printed works of humanist Italians from his own library, such as Jacob Philip of Bergamo, Flavio Blondus & Platina (Lives of the Popes). The parts of the Chronicle which are original are portions of the geographical descriptions of cities based upon Schedel's travels.

E. Shaffer - The Nuremberg Chronicles 1950. Gunot Z241 S31 S48

28 types of Popes portray 226 successors of St. Peter 26 views of cities which extended across both pages, as well as 69 small prints. Stromer's paper mill - perhaps provided the paper

Unlike most contemporary coloring found in incumbula the color schemes found in many copies of The Nuremberg Chronicle have a strong family resemblance and can be presumed to have been done on the instruction of the publishers, that is the printer or patrons of the work. The final settlement of the accounts show many of the unsold copies sent to agents in Germany and abroad had been colored previous to dispatch.

The coloring was done by hand with a range of simple earth tints, but the workmanship was unusually careful , although it cannot compare with the expensive colors and skilled artistry used by the illuminators of manuscripts.

Many copies still survive - over 800 Latin and 400 German. Apparently the paper came from upper Rhine sources

More parchment makers than printers marching in the tradesmen's parades as late as 1521 and a street in Nuremberg was named for them [ "Permelterstrasse" ?]

Nuremberg in 1490 --> 40-50,000 inhabitants and was after Cologne among the largest in Europe only 32-35 aristocratic families had access to a seat on the City Council - a busy, rich, mercantile & cultural center

it was the seat of an imperial castle. Salaries and fees per annum Physician 100 Rd. fl. Pharmicist 50 Printer 32 Architects 150 Book --> Missdle Wormatiense - 4 Rhiglde

Albrecht Durers House 1509 --> 295 Rd. fl. 1 florim = , Rhgld + 1 shilling 1 Rhgld - 20 shilling

The Concept of a Christian "world chronicle" was 1st formulated by bishop Eusebius of Caesaren, the biographer of Emperor Constantine early in the 4th C. His Chronicorum Canones supplied a list of dates drawn from Assyrian, Hebrew, Egyptian, Greek + Roman times up to the year 325. Translated into Latin by St. Jerome + completed in 378 the chronological framework became the basis medieval historiography. St. Augustine added to it his philosophy of the " Two Cities', one Temporal + one eternal. Only the city of God had permanence, +earthly history progressed through the six ages. Schedel too followed this scheme in his Liber Chronicarum.

Latin version - 326 leaves German " - 297 leaves (accout of Italy omitted) The German type is designed in Friedrich Creussner's Franconian style + had almost the same size as his. Only the heading type is take from the existing stock of the press ("Pfauenfeder type") 1493 Latin edition -Blat XIII -> map of the world.