Farfel Notebook 03: Leaves 135-222

161 Sept. 1983 Maggs Bros. London 40L = $60.00 Jacobus de Voragine The Golden Legend. Westminster: [Wynkyn de Worde] 20 May 1493 folio Ref: C6474 Goff J- 150 DeR(C) 107 Duff 410 S.T.C. 24875 Cop: Harv CL HEHL #69798, PML, Trinity College - Oxford. Pr 9691 The historye of al haloven - 441. folio CCCXXVIII Qiiij Duff #410 436 leaves, 2 col. 43-451. with headlines + foilation (of 8) Types 1 99mm = Caxton 4* modified 2 114mm = Caxton 8 De Ricci #107 436ff. 4ff no sig, a-e8; F2; f-z8 &8 98 e4; A-Y8; aa-ee8 ff6 gg4 44 lines (216x149mm) - last numbered folio CCCCXXIX Types 8+4* recast (100mm) printed by W. de Worde with Caxton's types. 6 - (one - Golden Legend) books are known to have been printed at the Red Pale before 1494 by W de Worde. Blades pp 249-251, n. 93 + 2nd ed. pp 365-66 n. 101 Ames -Dibdin I pp. 193-94 n. 24.

Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 8 Jan. 1498 folio Ref C6475 Goff J151 Duff 411 S.T.C. 24676. Cop PML Duff #411 448 leaves, 2 col. 47 lines with headlines + foliation (272x194mm.) Types 2 114mm = Caxton 8 4 95mm 6 135mm = Caxton 3 This book is printed on English made John Tate* paper like tha tused in the Bartholomoeus Anglicus (Duff #40) - Wynkyn de Worde 1495. (watermark - an 8 pinted star in a circle) *The 1st english papermill at Hertford (1494-1508). King Henry VII encouraged Tate by a small award when he visited teh mill in 1498+99. Watermark - 8 pointed star. (1495 - Polyronicon) W. de Worde wife died in 1498. of Woerde in Holland probably belonged to the staff of workman which Caxton brought with him to Westminster when he set up his press there.

Further reprints of Caxton's publications, notably the Morte d'Arthur, the Golded Legend + Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, all in folio + profusely illust. are the outstanding features of De Wordis press in 1498. The Golden Legend. J de Voragine. 1812. W. Morris - Hammersmith. Vol 3 p 979-988 The Life of Saint Eustace The Solempryte of Al Halowes (Nov. 1) The feaste of all the Sayntes was established for fome causes. The Commemoracion of Al Soules (Nov. 2) 24875 S.T.C. This is the only edition to omit the stories from the Bible. Rare Book Ref Z240 J6f - Catalogue of English Incunabula. The John Rylands Library. 1493 Translated by W. Caxton from the "Legenda surea" of J. de Voragine with the aid of the French translation of Jean de Vignay + a previous English version of that translation. - without catchwords. With headlines. Double columns a full folumn contains 44-45 lines a) 273x200mm b) sig d, verso (44lines) 216x147mm. 1498 double columns. A full column contains 47 lines -without catchwords. With headlines. a)262x184mm b) sig d, recto (47 lines) 220x155mm. the overall measurement, type page + margins the measurement fo the type page - headlines + marginal notes have not been included in the measurement of the type pages W. de Worde - Printer - Westminster + London 1491?-1534 Westminster 1491?-1500 London 1500-34 In 1500, having printed at least 100 books at Westminster, W. de Worde moved his press to Fleet St., at the sign of the Sun. Paper used in England before 1500 - much was Italian (Piedmont), some French (Troyes, Champagne), little if any trace from Germany. - Along with the Legende Aurea + the Gesta Romanosum the Scholastic historia (Petrus Comistor) was one of the favorite medieval books of anecdotes + stories, largely of a miraculous nature.

162 Sept. 1983 Dr. Eichenberger Bien wil am See 90SF = $44.33 Biblia (German) Augsburg: Gunther Zainer 1477 folio Ref: Goff B629 H3134 BMC II 324, GW 4300 Cop: HEHL(I) NYPL CCXXV O.T. Chronicles II 35 Das ander buch Der Eferung Part I. 321 leaves. 2-320 numbered t-CCCXIC. (ends with Psalter) Part II 332 leaves II-CCCXXXi numbered 2 col. 51 lines + headline (name of book + foliation) 302(313)x194mm Type 118d Capitals (2a, 4a) Some capital spaces, with guideletters.

Zainer made use of picture initials 73 for his 2 German Bibles. As a rule, these initials measure about 2 3/4" in width by 3 12/" in ht. THe woodcuts of the 1st ed. were repeated in the second with very little variation, but Zainer also added at the end of each volume of the latter publication a picture which appears to be a printer's emblem. - Where the 14 pre-Lutheran High German Bibles are in 2 vol. the 1st normally concludes with the Psalms, + the 2nd begins with Proverbs. - The books are generally presented in the order of the Vulgate + include the Apocrypha as well as the Old + New Testaments. The Prayer of Manasses is placed after Chronicles in all but the Mentel + Eggistein editions, in which it is lacking: and in the 1st Zaimer Bible it has been printed on a half-leaf normally inserted between the folios numbered 185 + 186. In the New Testament, the apocryphal Epistle to the Luodiccare follows Galatians, + the Book of Acts is placed after the Epistle to the Hebrews. -G Zainer (died 1478) -the 1st dated German Bible

Type 118 - a 2nd Gothic Type used from 1471 onwards. Duplicate forms of A, D, M, S + other letters are found in its earliest state; a paragraph mark was added in 1474 (118B) a third A with a stroke across the top + a Vshaped bar in 1475 or early in 1476 (118C), + a smaller V in 1476 (118D). HEHL not rubricated Vol. I 321 ff. a 2 co. de 51 II. (84592) Das ander buch begins ccvii chapter 1-36 ends ccxxvi my leaf 35 Das enst birch de kunig as ander " das dritt " vierd " erst " Paselipomenon (Chronicles) ander "

Germany - in no other country in Europe were vernacular Bibles printed so frequently in as many places.

163 Sept. 1983 Dr. Eichenberg Bien wil am See 75SF = $36.95 Biblia (German) Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 20 June 1477 folio. Ref: Goff B-630 HC3155 BMC II 344 GW 4301. Schreiber 3459. Cop: HEHL, NYPL. IGI1711 Dem Psalter Old Testament David. in dem lxxxiii-lxxxvii (84-88) Part I 267 leaves. (ends with Psalter) Part II 295. (330x245mm) Part I. 2 col. 55 lines (56+57) + headline (name of books) 285(295)x190mm Type: 103 Cpaitals Ia, Ib, 2 with woodcuts (76) + large woodcut initials (Maiblumen style) (52x52mm) at Chapter header. A large number of the woodcuts in this book are the sam as those of Pflanzmann's undated German Bible about 1475 but in different order. -Pflanzmann's Bible contains 57 pictures from about 21 blocks, most of them being repeated in Sorg I, which also, however, gives evidence of drawing fairly heavily upon other sources. In fact, Sorg I seems even to have based a fwe of its pictures upon Zainer I, although not adapting or introducing picture initials. -7th German Bible - the test + most of the cuts are based pn Pflanzmann's Bible fo c. 1475. However, the printer Anton Sorg, had 23 new cuts of the same size made especially for this ed. whil omitting 4 of the pflanzmann cuts. The result was as Schribir points out, that the general effect of this Bible surpasses that of the earlier one. Type 103 Large text type used up to the end of 1477. Indistinguishable from SS Ulrich + Afria of the same measurement except that the round brackets cocasionally used by Sorg do not seem to be found in the other 2 forms of N + R.