Farfel Notebook 02: Leaves 065-134

134 May '82 Bienwiliam See Dr Eichenberger 45SF=$23.32

Psalterium [Wuzburg: Georg Reyser (1479-1503) undated about 1490 1485-6] Bruno, Episcopus. Herbipolensis, ed. (293x220mm)fo Ref: HC 411 BMCII 571 Goff P. 1046 Pell 3034 Cop: HEHL, PML, LC. 25 lines large type Pa CVII 279-280 leaves, 2 col. 50 lines of small type. 224x152 mm Types: 180a (here measuring 182) Text of psalms; 112a, headings + collects in the commentary; 90, commentary. A few spaces left for important capitals, smaller capitals + versal letters printed in red. See Haebler Plate 110 S. Bruno - Bishop Wuzburg. (d. 1045) Georg Reyser - Wuzberg. w. about 1479-after 1510. Michael Reysen - Eichstatt. w. about 1484-94. Herbipolae Haebler German plates #111 The brothers G+M Reysen may almost be considered as the official printers of the Bishops of Wuerzburg + Eichstatt. The 2 brothers learned the art of printing at Strassburg. Besides thier official books for the Bishops, the 2 printers brough out but little of importance. In the printing of liturgical books the work they accomplished is remarkable indeed, both in its quality + in quantity.* Their Antiphonarium is the most considerable piece of music printing of the Incumabula period + their Musicals + Brevieries can compete with those of all other printers. -From 1479 G. Reysen was printing in Wuzburg, at 1st with partners, then alone. He printed almost solely lithurgical works + those published before 1491 had copper engravings *The spiscopal letters prefixed to the liturgical books printed by the 2 brothers show how very closely they were connected with their high employers. -Of the manuscript produced in the 13th C, psalterm took 2nd place only to complete Biblem. From 1493 he used moderate which Wolgamutt designed + which Were cut in Nuremberg. (July) St. Kilian - patron saint - diocase of Wurzburg.

St. Bruno ( d. 1045) was the son of Conrad ,Duke of Carinthia, & renowned for his scholarship & wisdom. A volume of great typographical interest , employing 2 colors & greatly contrasting types. St. Bruno of Cologne (b. about 1030 - 40) founded the Carthusian order by establishing a monastary at a desolate spot named Chartreuse in the Alps near Grenoble (having declined the archbishoprie of Reims) He died 1101 6 at Calabria, Italy. A handsomely printed version of the Psalms & commentary , in which the Psalms in large Type occupy the inside column , - the commentary in 2 sizes of small type on the outside HEHL rubricated in red & blue - my leaf C3 (of 8) last 1/3 of volume. (85775) Type 180 A - text type for missals 112 A - text type , upper loop of a closed 90 - very neat text type.

See #126 from (Melvin McGovern) Kabin - Ja 1434 In 1434 the publications Office was ordered by the king to cast a bronze font of 200,000 pieces of type which was named Kabin - Ja . This event in Korean typographical history is recorded in the Yi Dynasty Annels & in the 3rd forward to the Yorktae janggam bakui of 1437. These accounts state that the king regretting that the Type in use , though beautiful, was difficult to read because of the small size of the characters , suggested that a new font be cast from written characters of a larger size . Within 2 months more than 200,000 types were cast , so clear that it was possible to print more than 40 sheets a /day. The style of the characters is that of the early Ming calligraphers . Kabin - Ja is sometimes called Wibuin - Ja or type in the Madame Wi style which is the Korean name for the Chinese style of writing of that period. Kabin - Ja was recast 4 times - 1580, 1668, 1772, & 1777. Pages are usually made up in 10 perpendicular lines - 18 characters / line. - the finest of the early Types & remaining in use over the longest period - as late as 1777. - usual editions of about 100 copies.

See#114 Vincent Ferrer was a Dominican apostolic preacher. He was a brilliant dialectician at the age of 15 & , despite parental opposition entered the Order of Preachers in his native city of Valencia . He became a teacher of theology in 1384 & a master of some in 1389; but it was not as professor that he was to do his most distinguished work . The evils that afflicted society after the Black Death (1347 - 1350) were aggravated [crossed out]by[end crossed out] & intensified by the Western Schism. Vincent had early espoused the cause of Clement VII , the Avignonese claimant to the throne of St. Peter , convinced that the election of the Roman pontiff Urban VI , had been invalidated by fear. While he was convinced that the effective revival of Christian life & morals depended primarily upon healing the schism , it was by his preaching that he rose to the height of his power & influence. In 1399 he set forth from Avignon & spent 20 yrs in apostolic preaching. With fiery elequence he preached the need of repentance & the coming of the Judgement. He was canonized by Calixtus III in 1455.

Machzor (cycle Repitition) Originally the liturgy of the prayer book, arranged chronologically according to the annual cycle. In Ashkenazi usage came to mean the festival prayer book as distinct from the prayer book for ordinary weekdays & Sabbaths Prayer book for festivals . Best known medeival machzor by Simchah ben Samuel of Vitri.

- After the Koran , The Thousand Nights & a Night, & the fables of Bidpar , the most popular book in Islam was The Magamat ( Discourses ) of Abu Muhammad al - Hariri ( 1054 - 1122 ) of Basra. - The labors of The Herbalist gave birth to medicine on the one hand & to scientific botany on the other. - It is usual to regard the publication of Linnacus' Systema Naturue (1735) as marking the end of the age of the Herbalists & the beginning of modern botany. - Throughout the Middle Ages , an herb & kitchen garden - often including ornamentals also - was an expected feature of every monastery. p. 329 Durant - Botany, almost forgotten since Theophrastus , revived - the Moslams of this age. Al-Idrisi wrote a herbal , but stressed the botanical rather than merely the medicinal interest of 360 plants . Abu'l Abbas of Seville (1216) earned the surname of al-Nabati , The Botanist , by his studies of plant life from The Atlantic to the Red Sea . Abu Muhammad ibn Baitar of Malaga (1190 - 1248) gathered all Islamic botany into a vast work of extraordinary erudition which remained the standard botanical authority till the 16th C , & marked him as the greatest botanist & pharmacist of the Middle Ages. - There are 2 types of seals preserved from the cultures of the ancient Near East. 1) stamps used from the 6th C BC on & 2) cylinders which became popular in Mesopotamia during the late 4th C. B.C.