Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

Pedacius Dioscorides, c. 40-80 -a Cilician Greek originator of the brance of medical science known as materia medica, the materials of medicine Translated into many languages, Dioscorides' herbal continued in use for more than 1500 years. His work is divided into 5 books: first, aromatics, ida, ointments, trees; second, animal products of dictatic + medicinal value, cereals, + garden herbs; third + fourth roots, juices, + other medicinal plants; + fifth, vines, wines, + metallic ores. Dioscordies; work - first published in Greek by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1499. contemporary of Pliny - usually accorded the title of the 1st European to compile a materia medica - as distinct from a botanical handbook. Six hundred plants with their medical properties are described - of which 90 are still in use today.

Ellen K. Shaffer - The Garden of Health - SF Book Club - 1959 Gunst Z239 K3552f leaf from Hortus Sanitalis - 1499 checklist fo editions printed before 1550 Gart 1485-1547 Hortas Sanitatis 1491-1538 The Gart was the only herbal printed in Switzerland in the 15th C; Funter issued it a Basel around 1486. Schonsperger, - of 13 edtiions of the Gart before the close of the century, he was responsible fo r7 - 1485, 6, 7, 8, 93 (2), 96, 99.

Speculum Humanae Saluationis - The Minor Haman Salvation -compiled about 1324 by Ludolph of Saxony a Dominican monk in a house of the order at Strassbourg. - See #81

"Mosan" school of Art - Meuse Valley 12 C.

PR 2209 B82s Ref Vol. 2 p. 153 quire (choir)

Of the claterynge + bablynge of prestis + clerkes in the quere

Of folys yet: many we great number se In the holy guerys of chirches small + great Whose commanycacyon is voyde of honestye But on vayne talys theyr myndes clene ar set That goddes seruyce is oft hyndred + let By suche impres _ dedys of fare and here Which they as Folys recount within the quere.

I have before touchyed the great enormyte The foly, + disorder, without all reuerence Whiche in the chirche daryly we may se Amonge lay folys, which better were be thems But nowe shall I touche another, lyke offence And that is of Folys which in the quere habounde Nat saynge the seruyce of god as they are bounde (not)

But dyuers Toyes + Iapis varyable They spread abrode, encombrynyge the seruyer And namely with theyr tunge (tongue) where with they bable Eache one to other, as if they take aduyse And counsell togyden theyr cartis to deuyse Unto our shyppes theyr company to cary For loth they be to longe (long) fre (from) them to tary.

O goddes Temple, O godly ordynaunce Be holy faders (fathers) ordeyned to gyde the same None labours you to support nor auraunce But to decay they suffer, unto theyr shame The godly costomes as tourned unto game The Sermonyes sometyme kept stedfastly An nowe defyled by Iestis of uylany.

Thomas Dibdin Rare Book Coll. PR 4549 D415 - 1827 Tare + valuable editions etc - Polyglots Opus Quadripartitum Sacrae Scriptures, continens S. Biblia sive Libros Vet. et Nov. Testamenti omnes, quadruplici ligna, Hebraica, Graeca, Lateria et Germanica. Cura et studio Davidis Wolderi Hamberg Fol. 1596. The Greek text of this work is formed according tot eh Antwerp Polyglot; the Latin version according to the Frankfort edit. of 1591, which is in fact, after various intervening versions, nothing but the old edition of R. Stephen in 1557; the German version is from Luther's edition of 1545. 4 Biblia sacra Graece, Latine + Germanice H.W. Adams #973 Ed. David Wolder - Pastor of the church of St. Peter at Hamburg. fo. Hamburgi, Jacobus Lucius juri excurd 384x246mm The 7 parts Iff 289 II 384 III 169 IV 295 V 218 VI 205 VII 153 are bound in 3 volumes Together with this Triglot the publishers issued the Hebrew O.T. of 1587 bearing a fresh (and fake) title.

History of Latin Writing 1) Writing of the Roman period 2) national Land writings 3) The Caroligian 4) the Gothic 5) Humanistic writing + modern Gothic hands.

Textura Rotunda Fere-humanistica Bastarda Roman ITalic

3 main groups of books liturgical scolastic vernacular

Basel Printers *Johann Amerbach Peter Kollicker * " Bergmann, de Olpa Johann Petri " Besicken Jacobus Wolff de Pforzheim Martin Flach Bernhard Richel * Johann Froben *Berthold Ruppal * Michael Furten *Michael Wenszler * Nicolaus Kesler Linhart Ysenhut Ludwig Hohenwang

The Anglo Saxon alphabetical characters differ only Emma Cope How to Read old Documents R Z113 C75 from the Roman in the letter W written p: there are also 2 additional double letters ' "th", represented by the following letter p, and 'dh' y, these last being in frequent use in the construction of words. About the time when printing was brought over + practiced in England the Saxon P disappeared.

The system of contraction started with the Jews, who were accustomed to omit the vowels in the sacred name fo Jahwe or Jehovah. It was transferred by Hallenizing Jews to Greek scribes through Greek translations of Hebrew Scriptures. From the Greeks it passed to Rome. One of the proofs of Jewish origin is that the usage, even in Latin, was at first absolutely confined to just 5 Sacred Names: Deus (ds), Jesus (i[?]s), Christus (xps), Spiritus (sps) + Dominus (d[?]s).

A.W. Pollard NC 960 P77 P.90 -At Milan only 2 illustrated books are known to have been issued before 1490, both of which appeared in 1479. The rarest of these is the Summa di Pacifica Consciuntia of Fra Pacifico di Novara printed by Philippus of Lavagnia, + illustrated with 3 copper plates, one of which represents the virtues of the Madonna.

The 1st 5 books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Noumbers + Duteronomy) are known collectively as the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses (11-6th Centuries B.C.)

The dismissal at the end of the Mass, namely, the 'Ite missa est' (sometimes replaced by 'BenedicamusDomino')

Italian + Spanish parchments tend to be somewhat lighter in color + thinner that French + German which are usually darker + heavier. much English parchment has a velvety surface textur.

parchment - ordinary quality of skin - sheep + goats vellum - finer quality - calf, kid or lamb (Latin) caudex (later codex) - 'from the bark of a tree' - book construction in leaves as opposed to the roll form (papyrus, leather) gatherings or quires (sheet of 4 sheets fold once - 8 leaves or a quire (16 pages) - usual practice - to number or sign each quire at the end of the leaf (or sometimes at the beginning) (Latin) Penna - 'father' pen - quill - reed - metal

manuscript - hand written balck letter - Fraktur, Gothic, old english, text miniatures - Latin (minium - red led) illuminations (lumen - light) - "golden books"

the normal arrangement of a Latin guaternion would be: page side ruling 1 hair ridyes 2-3 flesh furrows 4-5 hair ridges 6-7 flesh etc until furrows 16 hair ridges

editions of the Vulgate by the end at the 15th C - Hain lists 109 - apart from Mainz itself, 14 came from Niunberg, 13 from Strassburg, 7 from Cologne, 2 from Speyer, 1 from Ulm + 17 from Basle. Venice produced 17, + after the late 1479's Lyons produced 9. Paris produced only one, but became a leading centre in the next century. The 1st book fo a living author printed Johannes Brunner's Grammathica Rythmicaschool master + editor at Peter Schoeffer prss 1467 - Peter Schoeffer