Farfel Notebook 01: Leaves 001-064

Joannes Balbus Januensis - Catholicon -DeWitt Starnes PA 2353 Ref. 57 - combined the works of Papias + Ugnitio 4 sections devoted to - Orthographia, Ethimologia Diasintasties, Prosodia. Its availability, owing to frequent printings, made it one of the most influential books of the 15th C. The Catholican is not a classical dictionary; it is medieval. The Catholicon is a basic source for the Proptorium, as it seems to have been for most lexicons, Latin + bilingual in the 2nd half of the 15 C.

Promptorium parvulorum (ca 1440) - our earliest English Latin dictionary - there are 6 manuscripts + at least 5 early printed editions, dating from 1499 to 1528 Richary Pynson - small folio 115 leaves Wynkyn de Worde editions - 1510, 16, 28.

Ugucio - Hugo (Hugutio) of Pisa (d. 1210) his dictionary - 1 Magnae derived largely from Isidore's Origines + Papias 2 Elementarium doctrinae rudimentum (ca. 1060) Magnae - never printed, though much of it is incorporated in the Catholicon Dictionarius (ca. 1220) of John of Garland (12th C) - born in England

British Museum Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede 8th C Historia Britorum 12 C Anglo Saxon Chronicle 11 C Historia Anglorum 12 C Henry Huntington Gesta Regum Anglorum 12 C by William

Catchwords (XII C. on) quire - 4, 6, or more leaves foliation (XIII C. on) pagination XV C.)

Johann Otmar 1479 - began to print at Reutlingen. He Colin Clair 1479 produced 5 books dated 1482, but 3 others are inferentially dated between 1479-80. Otmar printed at Reutlingen until 1495, + in 1498 had a press at Tubingen. - earliest books which contain Otmar's name are: Menniken's Formulae epistolum of 1422. Conetanz Breviary Sept 1482 (H. 3828). - last date in book at Reutlingen is 1495. - 1st book signed at Tubingen is the Paulus Scriptor, in librum primum Santentiarum of March 24, 1498.-

- Otmar of Reulingen, having printed many books at Reutlingen + Tubingen between 1479-1501 went to Augsburg after 1501, where he published the 1st book from his third press in 1502. Continued printing until 1515.

Weller Repertorium typographicum (1864) Ref Z2222 P19 Vol. 3 #222 Herbarium zu tentsche Augsburg: Hanns Otmar for Johann Rennman, 1508. 239 leaves, folio. Weller 4074 Cop Muchen, Panzer Zufatze 109 Z apf II, 36 Muthen p 163 #975. Choulant p. 254 Nr. 22 The earliest woodcuts date from the end of the 14th C - religious pictures + playing cards ealry woodcuts coloured by hand - attempts at printing colors were made in the 2nd 1/2 of the 15th C - chiaroscuno method.

Bartuda Rotunda Textura Gothic

Textura - based on the German adaptation of the Carolingian minuscule + basically the same as that used by Gutenberg.

woodcutting - block of wood cut along the grain Haarlem in the Netherlands + Strassburg on the Rhine both compete with Mainz to be the birthplace of printing. The 16th C saw the rise of the writing onaster whose aim it was to spread the art of fine writing by advertising its beauty + utility.

879.8 I 812 V. 1+2 W.M. Lindsay Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi -Completed 623 Etymologiarum Sive Originum Liber XI - De Homine et Portentis XII - De Animalibus XIII - De Mundo et Partibus XIV - De Terra et Partibus XV - De Aedificiis et Agris XVI - De Lapidibus et Metallis See #95 *XVII - De Rebus Rusticis XVIII - De Bello et Ludis XIX - De Nauibus, Aedificiis et Vestibus Liber XX - de mensis, de potu, de vasis potatorii de vasis vinariis et aquariis, de vasis oleirius, etc

Liber I - De Grammatica II - De Rhetorica et Dialectica III - De Mathematica IV - De Medicina V - De Legibus et Temporibus VI - De Libris et Officiia Ecclesiasticis VII - De Deo, Angelis et Sanctis VIII - De Ecclesia et Sectis IX - De Linguis, Gentibus, Regnis, Militia, Civibus Affinit atibus. X - De Vocabulis

for nearly 1000 years the Spanish bishop's encyclopedia preserved for medieval western Europe the modes of thought + the factual knowledge of the ancient world of which it is a primary source. More than a 1000 manuscripts have survived, + its early appearance in print shows its undiminished appeal down to the 17th C. Later encyclopedias such as the Catholicon derived much of their material from Isidore. This is the 1st book to contain a printed map or diagram of the whole world.

Incunabula - the 40,000 editions contain the accumulated wisdom - and stupidities - of the previous 2000 years. 75% printed in Latin - of vernacular books - about = German + Italian

1) invention of writing (about 3000 - 2500 BC in Sumeria + Egypt, about 1500 BC in China) - Near + Far East 2) invention of the alphabet by the phoenicians in about 1200 BC - Mediteranean area 3) Printing - European discoveries 4)Computer - Spacesignatures - a German invention - usual practice was to mark the gatherings with small letters + the sheets of the gatherings with Roman numerals very often however with gothic letters. register - index catchwords - the reproducing of the 1st word of a new page at the foot of the preceding - occur exceptionally in incunabula + only during the last years of the 15th C. - were placed only at the end of gatherings or like signatures at the end of the double sheets. Pagination was preceded by the insertion of catchwords. Such catchwords occur for the 1st time in the Tacitus printed by John of Spier at Venice in 1469.

Signature the letter or figure appearing on the 1st page of a sheet (usually of 16 or 32 pages) which acts as a guide in gathering the sheets before binding.

font (fount) derived from the same root as teh verb found meaning to melt + pour metal.

Between 1513 + 1524, eight varieties of Fraktur Type were cut 1) (Fraktur, meaning "broken", is the 4th of the bastarda or vernacular types used in Germany, the other being 2) Schwabacker, 3) Upper Rhine + 4) Wittenberg.)

Colophon - The final closing stone - Greek Temple. Sheepskin - parchmetn Calfskin - Vellum - still born calf uterine vellum - finest 2 thinest.

The Tecord Interpreter - A Collection of Abbreviations Ref. ZIIII M23 Latin Works + Names

elongated nibz = nibus 3 or a certain variety of z ending below the line + hugging the letter preceding it sometimes represented by a character resembling a modern q or n above the line - in early German books - it stands also for as and ass title qz q3 = que (or quod, quis or qusm) ta = tam nata = natura pnuntiatione = pronunt q = que c = con ca = contra qndo = quando p = per (par, pir, por, pur) ppl'i = populi pp ter = propter p= pre aut = autem b; = bus p e=est = with usq = usque q or q = quam pm9 = prima q or q = qui uno qz = unoquoquo q = quae qd = quod peccat or 4 = peccatorum (ram, ras, res + ris) ei = eri dni = domini xpm = istrum p7 = post nnos = nostros xpi = christi s = sunt fpr = spiritus h = hasc y= u x = ver y = etiam fcof = sanctos % = est qd = quod bfi (beati) g6 (ipitur) nob = nobis dci (dicti) =n (enim) p = pro fu (frater) y = 150 h = hoc nr (noster fz = sed qm (quoniam) u = vero qn (quands) g = ergo tm (tantum) c = cum tn (tamen) n = non

Capital letters were only 23 in number - V served for U, I for J + W was not needed in a Latin book.