Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

(58) S.F. Book Fair Charles W. Traylen Sept. '76 $5.00

(Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni) Picus de Mirandula, Johannes. (1463-1494) Opera f° Venice: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus I. 9 Oct 1498 II. 14 Aug 1498 Latin H6 Goff P634 HC 12993 BMC V p 548 Cop Harv CL, HEHL (2,1-), Columbia

262 leaves. 3a: 44 lines + headline, 245 (251) x 147 (c marginalia 166) mm. Types 111R.; 85G. Woodcut capitals; capital spaces, c guide letters.

First certain date connected c Bernadinus is that of Fracentianus, Quaestiones in Consequentiis Strodi, completed by Christophonus de Bottis (Cremonenois) + Bernadinus on 10 Jan 1494, probably 1494/5 HC 7312. He did not, however, settle down to a regular output until early in 1498 + most of his work belongs to the 16th C. (until 1539) In his beginnings he printed chiefly works of humanistic interest. The humanist Pico was a member of the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo de Medici. He attempted to apply the Kabbalah to explanation of Christian mysteries. His orthodoxy challenged, he successfully defended it in his Apologia. In his latter years, influenced by Savonarola, he planned an ascetic life. -- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus (nephew of Johannes Picus de Mirandula) Italian philosopher + scholar - an exponent of Renaissance Platonism - still admired as a representative of Renaissance learning. Pico's writings - Oratio commentary explaining the doctrines of the neoPlatonic cosmology (1486), 900 theses or conclusions written for the dispute in Rome, the Dignity of Man, Apology, Heptaplus, his metaphysical treatise on The Being + The One, and a treatise on astrology.

Anagnine, E.G. - Pico della Marandola. Bari 1937. Garin, E. - Florence 1937.

Giovani Pico was born into a noble family in Mirandola in 1463. He studied law + philosophy at Bologna, Ferrara +, from 1480-82, Padua. Expert in Greek + Latin, he learned Hebrew + Arabic at Perugia, where he also became interested in the Jewish cabala. By 1486 he had composed the 900 theses which led to charges against his orthodoxy. Pico fled to France to evade capture, but was nevertheless arrested in 1488. He was released owing to the intervention of several Italian princes + he then returned to Florence where he enjoyed the protection of the Medici. There, until his death in 1494, he made a brilliant addition to the learned circle that had gathered around Ficino. Pico composed poems, letters, commentaries + a number of original philosophical tracts. Aside from this 900 theses + the famous Oratio, he is well knwon for Heptaplus + De ente et uno. Pico della Mirandola + his contemporary Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) signify the turn from Aristotle to Plato that characterizes the philosophical outlook of the foremost thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.

Reprinted from the ed. of Benedictus Hectoris, Bologna 1495-6 (Hoin 12992) in which however the Deprecatoria comes after the Epistolae + the preliminary matter to the Diaputationes is prefixed, not appended, to that work. Type 111R light text type, separate 2 in 2 forms, one c longer, the other c shorter dropped tail, irregular wide S, wide e, i dotted lightly + high up, + mostly c long serif, large9. In was 1498-1500. 85G text type low style c double limbed capitals + Dr. Haebler's M88. This type was apparently 1st used in 1496 by De Bottis (Cremonersis) the early partner of Bernardinus + is found in the latter's hands in + after 1498.

(59) Philip Duschnes New York Dec '76 $15.00

Double Manuscript leaf - Book of Hours Flemish, 15th C. Written in lettre batarde in black ink with many small illuminated initials throughout the text 17 lines to the page. 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches leaf 52 51 leaf Psalm 44 + 23 In Flanders, not only miniature painting + the writing of texts but also the various aspects of book decoration were separate specialties, controlld by their various guilds. The border painters evolved a new type of border. To go c the realistic miniature: a flat broad band, usually of gold, strewn c the most tangible blossoms + insects, or a still life setting in the midst of which, seen as though distantly through an arched window, the miniature was set. Flemish manuscripts came to the forefront towards teh end of the 15th C. at a time when French books were beginning to lose their vitality. Out of the school of Flemish miniaturists arose in the 15th C the group of panel painters that began c the Van Eycks + went on to include Van der Weyden + Memling. ← Kalendars - The dates are reckoned according to the Roman system + preceded usually by the Golden Numbers + the Sunday letters. Holidays of obligation are marked in red. Large capitals KI which stand for Kalendare, the 1st day of the month.

Bâtarde - all letteres have taken on the pointed + slanted appearance for which the script is brown -- heavy shading of the descenders R. Propterea benedixit.... Matins Ps. Celi enauant...(Ps 18) Pater noster... Tercia sexta A. Sicut myna electa... 2nd Nocturn for Tues. and Friday A. Ante thorum A. Specie tua Ps. Domini est tena...(Ps 23) Ps. Eructavit coc meum...(Ps 44) A. Ante thorum nuius virginis... A. Specic tue et pulchritudino.... V. Dif ussa est A. Adiuvabit eam.

60 Dec. 76 Angonaut $65.00 (gift)

S.T.C. #2064

The English Bible - tranlated by Miles Covendale [inserted] Yorkshieman educated at Cambridge - (1488-1568) [end inserted] published in England by James Nycholson in Southwark in 1537. (Apocalypse fo. cxiij) 8 1/2x 13 5/8

[inserted] 288 x 189mm 602 ff [end inserted]1st edition of the whole English Bible to be printed [inserted] Woodcut John [end inserted] in England. (folio) Blackletter. Copius: NY Public Lib, BM, The Bible 57 lines - New Testament - Revelation 1 --> 3.2 House, London Apocalypse on "Revelation" of St. John the [illegible]; a vision of the Day of Judgement, the destruction of the world, and the establishment of The New Jerusalem. The "Form Horseman" signify Conquest, Slaughter, Dearth and Death.

Copius (USA) New York Public in Lib and General Theological Seminary NYC C. Clair. p. 2. English printers were dependent on centimental supplies for their paper. Apart from the short-lived paper mill of John Tate of Stwenage (1495-8) no paper seems to have been manufactured in England on my substantial scale until John spilman started his mill at Dartford in Kant about 1589.

- Pynson introduced no man Types into England in 1507, and De Worde first [illegible] first [illegible] an italic type in 1524.

[inserted] H.F. made new ed. 1968 z 7771 E H47 A.S. Herbert Z 7771 E5H47 [end inserted]#32 (15) 1537 Biblia 2nd folio edition of Coverdale's Bible Imprinted in South works fn James Nycolson Coverdadis version - the first folio Bible printed in England - while it is not certain whether this or #33 (a quarto) was the earliest just Bible printed in England, this is probably prior since #33 has the words 'set forth with the Kynges most

See also Matthew & Bible - gracious licence' on the title page. Summaries are removed from the beginning of the book and placed at the head of each * measurement of type page) chapter. the text, in spite of the words 'newly oversene and connected', appears to be a close reprint of Covendale's Bible of 1535. // f^o 288 x 189 [321 x 213 mm] 602ff.

[inserted] The text divided into 6 parts. New Testament #6 [end inserted] The text printed in bold English black letter. The headlines + folio numbers are printed in fine large typo. Each part of the text has a separate foliation. Excluding title borders, -->

Excluding the title borders ->57 separate blocks are used for 94 illustraations. According to an MS note Frey was able to trace no more than 8 copies of this edition.

It was because the dissernmmilion do the Scriptures in English was prohibited by the ecuclesiastical authorities that Tyndale was obliged [inserted] c. clairp. 61 155.142 C 58 (Santa Clara) [end inserted]to take refute in Germany to complete his Translation of the New Testament, the 1st to be painted in the English language, which was issued by Peter Schoeffer at Worms in 152506. Tyndale met a martyr's death in 1536 before he had translated the whole Bible, which he certainly would have done had he lived. The completion of the English Bible ever to be printed was published in 1535. Even today it is not known for certain where or by whom it was printed, but from the evidence of its types most authorities consider it was printed at Cologne by Cervicorn or Soter. L.A. Sheppard, however, considers the book to have been printed by the same printers at Marburg.

This Coverdale Bible was reprinted in 1537, ostensibly by James Nicolson of Southwark, a native of the Low Countries, who had a printing office in St. Thomas's Hospital, but actually Nicolson only imported the sheetsof the edition, which he purchased from Jacob van Meteren, the Antwerp merchant who had subsidized Corendale's Bible.

British Museum --> The earliest printing of the Bible in English-P. Quentell - Cologne 1525 New Testament "fyue sunday interpreters" were - The Swiss German version of zueingli and Leo Juda (printed at Zurich 1524-9), 2) the Latin version of Sanctus Pagninus (the 1st edition appeared in 1528), 3) Luther's German Version (finished in 1532), the 4) Vulgate and 5) Tyndale.

1537 [inserted] In the Psalter te ordinary Latin headings are prefixed. These had seen omitted in the 1st ed. [end inserted] -- its large initials framed with design from the Danca of Duth seius. Title within the same woodcut border as that employed for the 1st ed. 1535 -- title page by Holbein title page of New Testament - unknown artist - shows the evangelists in the 4 courses. A Literary History of the Bible - Gedder MacCragan - 1968 BS 455 M 32 (West Valley)