Farfel Notebook 03: Leaves 135-222

pearl of crystal egg. -Persian poet + historian Abou'l Qarim Firdousi (c. 941-1020) -Impact of Chinese art on Iranian prining as a result of the Mongl conquest. Eskander In Persian - (Alexander the Great) Dana (Darius Codomanur) Darius III Rustam - the great epic hero of Iran - his son - Faramarz Shah-nameh a considerable portion describes battles wither between indicidual heros or between opposing armies + as a consequence many illust/ of the work have battles as a theme. - who displayed exceptional bravery + strencht in 7 labors - always distinguished by his tiger-skin coat + his leopard head cap. (red beard) Firdawsi was born in Tus. His family were rich land owners, + he lived most of his life on his estates The poem was begun by Daqiqi + when he died, Firdawsi took up his work, incorporated + acknowledged 1000 of his finished lines + spent 25 years completing it. Firdawsi deliberately tried to use Persian works + avoid the Arabic vocabulary which had already flooded his native tongue. The Shah-nameh is decidely not an Islamic work, although the general theme of the warfare between the disandants of Iraj (the Persians) + Tur (the Turks) had a very contemporary meaning. The major source for the poem seems to have been an old Pahlavi history of the early kings.

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204 July 85 $50 Brattle Book Shop Boston, Mass. Woodcut illust - $300 Border printe pages $150 See #207

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Hammersmith. (Colophon)May 8, 1816 completion of printing Morris died on 3 Oct. 1896 p. 237-8 June 26, 1896 date of publication. Ed. by F.S. Ellis with 87 woodcut illustrations by Sir Edward Bunne Jona, engraved by W.H. Hooper. 115 pages of the text are within elaborate woodcut borders, in 14 different designs all by Morris, as are the full page woodcut title, the 26 large initial words, + the numerous initials of different sizes throughout the text. Folio. Chaucer type in double columns, with headings to the longer poems in Troy type. Black + red. 425 paper copies at L 20. 13 vellum at 120 guineas. 11 1/4 x 16 1/2". 554 pages. Published by W. Morris. - brown + goldfore-edge.. Ransom, p. 329, #40; Tomkinson, p 117 Sparling, pp 162-4. on last page 554 - "Rev. Professor Sheat for kindly allowing the use of his emendations to the Ellesmere MS of the Canterbury Tales, + also of his emended texts of Chaucer's other writings." p. 215 - p4 Canterbury Tales p.1-222 p. 231 q4 An ABC of G. Chaucer p 223 p. 247 nt Womanly Noblense p 240 The Romauent of the Rose p 241 This book is the supreme achievement of the Kelmscott Press. In 1891 Morris concieved the idea of printing a Chaucer from a type which he planned to design. The headings - Troy type was the result. Finding it too larger, he recut it in the pica size, calling it the Chaucer Type. The printing of the great Chaucer took Morris 21 months.

Missal 1) Calendar 2) Temporale or Proper of Time containing the variable parts of the Mass for every Sunday + weekday throughout the year beginning with the 1st Sun. in Advent. 3) Ordinary (unchanging introductory part, including the Gloria + Credo), Prefaces for various days (always begining "Vere dignum et justum est" + ofter set to music) + Canon of the Mass. These are usually placed in the middle of the Temporale, just before Easter. 4) Sanctorale or Proper of Saints - generally beginning with St. Andrew (Nov 30) 5) Common of Saints 6) Votive Masses for special occassions; followed by various prayers. -first introit of the Temporale "Ad te leavi animam meam." The Breviary contains the office i.e. the services to be said or sung every day by the clergy at the canonical hours. These services consist mainly of psalms, interspersed with antiphons, verses, + responses, together with a few hymns + prayers. The Psalter contains the 150 Psalms, usually preceded by a calender + followed by the Te Deum + other Canticles, a litany of Saints, + prayers; often too, by Vigils of the Dead. Gradual + Antiphoners contain the choral parts of the Mass + Office respectively. Thus the Gradual answers to the Missal, the Antiphoner to the Breviary.

incunabulum - neuter singular incunabula " pleural The designation incunabula for the earliest printed books of Christendom was 1st used in 1653 by Phillippe Labbe in a Latin treatise on the old books of the royal library of Paris.

1) Roman letter, Golden Type - cut in English size, 1st used in his Golden Legend (1892) 2) A black letter great primer font, Troy Type, 1st used in the Historyes of Troye (Nov. 1802) the 1st book printed in English and long one of Moris's favorites 3) A black letter, Chaucer type, pica. This was used in some parts of the Historyes of Troye, but was 1st used for an entire book in The Order of Chivalry (1893) Moris also designed a 4th type but it was never cut. Chaucer was both the most heavily illust. + the most heavily decorated of the Kelmscott Press volumes. Before Chaucer appeared, Burne-Jonu had designed only 11 original woodcuts for the Press, scattered through 6 volumes.

The Kelmscott Press was at 1st installed on 12 Jan 1891 in a cottage at 16, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, but was later moved to larger premises in Sussex House, next door to its original home.

- The 2nd most perfect book ever printed, the Gutenberg Bible being the first - sold at $100. - unhappy cliche - The socialist who printed books for millionaires - Chaucer's witty poem begging money from Henry IV in 1309 "The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse." - the 1st attempt at illustrating the actual pilgrim's stories rather than just the pilgrims themselves Burne Jonu illustrations show the poet of courtly love rather than the bawdy stories from sig T onward - German ink from Hanover used problems encountered by Moris - paper, ink, text (used Skeat's 6 vol ed. of 1894.) -The text of the Kelmscott Chaucer was based on that of W.W. Skeat's scholarly ed. of 1894