Farfel Notebook 03: Leaves 135-222

in text "optima senectute spud Bergomuy cissalpine gallie civitatem" "De sancto alexandeo hic comemnat."

One of the finest illustrated books of the Italian Renaissance. All woodcut material appears in this ed. for the 1st time. No artist has been identified, but more than one Ferrsrese hand is likely to have been responsible for the portraits. Type 105 G large square text type, mostly with medium capitals. Q is seperate. Peculair + very small loop. bold single sloping hyphen. in use 1497-99. De Bestaice Sfortia cap. clxxvIII fo. clxiiii cap. primum HEHL begins De Maria virgine ends De Damisella -f0.clxvii (84-790) De Eva Capiultimu] (clxxxiii) Trivltia z iii (Trivalzie) my woodcut appears on n ii F0 xcvi + is not repeated 9/5 De Sancta Grata virgine folio capitulum cviii total 172 folio in the Volume 95- n i before - Cancta Affra cxii Martyr. AD 304 8/5, Augsburg. 97 - n iii after - Sancta halena constantini matre cxiiii to AD 330 8/18 mother of Constantine the Great. ends De Sancta Semiguda virgie clxxxi ipatrice henrici ipatoris vxore De Damisella Trivclia virguncula Mediolanense - one of the most beautiful of the illust. works of the 15th C. The 1st full page woodcut depicts the author presenting his work to Beatrice of Naples (2nd wife of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary) to whom it is dedicated 175 woodcuts including 2 full page ones) Sold for L52.10s This colume of the histories of famous women is not the familiar set Written by Boccaccio, but a series chosen + described by J. P. Foresti, an Augustinian, who was born near Bergamo in 1434 + was successively prior at Imola + Forli. index - Grata virgo Bergomenais. F0 96 xcvi text begins Grate matrona 7 pudicissime (via) go genere 7 dignitate infignis sed admiradis virtutibus 7 sanctitate insignior:

210 Sept '85 Dr. Eichenberg Bein wil am See SF 60 = $22.22 Ludolphus de Saxonia (with 1300-1377) Vita Christi (Tboack vanden leven Jhesu Christi) -Bose vander lever one heaven Jesu Christi (Holland) Delft: [Christian Snellaert] 22 May 1488 f0 Gft 1345 [inserted] C. 3672 Conway p. 320 Schratlen p 40-41 + p'. 60-63A [end inserted] Ref: Goff L-354 Oatis (271mm) 3362 Pr 8881 Camp 1182 Geldner II 334 Cop: PML. Rosenwald Collection #496. iiij Capittal - ciij Liege Univ. - 27.5 cm f.23 F. A. G. Campell - Annals de la Typographie Neulandaise am 15 C 016.093 C187 - Bender Rm. Polain (13) 2543 #1182 cans nom de'imprimuer. 304 fuillets, caract. goth. HMT 82(105) f2, 2 col. 39 lines, arke signatures aij-osij, sans chiffres ni reclames. avec gravures en boidon (about 150) See - M. J. SChretlen - -anonymous author - translator. Dutch + Flemish woodcuts of the 15 C London 1925. p, 40-44 BMC Christian Snallaert (Delft) the earliest book atributable to this press is the unsigned L. de Saxonia, Vita Chrisi, 22 May 1488. THough Snellaert's name is not met with after 11 Aug 1496, the press was active in the following year 1497. On 9 Jan. 1498 its material was already in the hands of Hendrik Eckect. To Snellaert are attributed some 70 books. Procta #8881 - Types 1, 3, 4, *. ab8 c-f6 g8 h-z6 z6 o6 A-L6 aa-nn6 oo4. -Ludolphus's spiritual text became very popular in the 15th C. + influenced Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ. -This Dutch text is not the literal translation of Ludolphus that it claims to be. A companion of the Dutch + Latin texts receals some curious discrepancies. Ludolphus's Vita Christi is more formal in tone, + it is not a dialogue. It contains extensive quotations of specific sources, moreover, that occur no where in the Dutch book. Athought the subjects of the 175 chapters in the Dutch version generally correspond to the 181 chapters of the Vita Christi, only the concluding prayers of each chapter can be called "free translations" of the Latin. Ludolphus's name, in fact, never appears on the title page of any of the

See Z 1023 E 18 Hindman - TheEarly Illust. Book. Lib. of Congress 1982

Dutch versions. The meditational character of this unjustly ignored intimate book corresponds to the personal tone of much of the literature of the Devotio Moderna. As James Marrow noted, the increased use of the vernacular in this period encouraged the pious to write their own accounts of Christ's life as a means of expressing their devotion. THis Dutch book, which appeared in at least 11 ed. in less than 50 yrs, seems to have been one of the most successful of these personal interpretations Schreiber Woodcuts C. Snellaert incurred no great expense for his new works. In his Ludolphus published in 1488 there are bad copies from the ed. printed by Leeu in Antwerp Polain 2543 40, 298 ffnc. Car. goth. 3 grand. Tris gros car. 2 col. 3911. Sig a8 b8 c-f6 g8 h-z6 76 A-L6 aa-mm6 oo4. Gravures + bordures. Vita Christi - presents the life of Christ as an example + symbol of the llife of man. Each chapter is conclueded with a short summary prayer - one source for Vita - The Speculum hummanae salvationis.

211 Spet. '85 J.C. Martinez 12 R. St Sulpice Paris 450 F = $45 Pietro Andrea Mattioli (Siena 1500 - Trento 1577) Commentarii in sex libros .... Dioscoidis Anazarbei de medica materia .... Durling #3014 US National Library of Medicine [Czech tr.] Herbarz: ginak beylinar. welmi uzitecny, a figurami picknymi y zretedlnymi,... Wytisstieno w Satem Miestia Praszskem. V Girzyka Melantrycha z Awentynu. 1562 [20], cccxcii [18]11 illus i parts. 35 cm. f0 The work on distillation at the end is a translation of the author's De ratione distillandi equas.... N.Y. Botanical Garden 1) Bronx Park, N.Y. 2) Mass. Horticultural Soc. Boston Copy Brit M. CCCLX - Buglsfaum vulgere - Common or Garden Buglosse (woodcut 6"x8 5/8") Ochaen zung - ox tongue Mattioli's fame speread rapidly, + in 1555 he was summoned to Prague by the Emperor Ferdinand I to treat his son, the Archduke Maximilian. Here he remained for more than 23 yrs, + here too, was first published the vast folio ed. of his Commentarii, with large woodcut illustrations + Czech text (Girkii Malantryka, 1562.) Seven further ed. followed between 1562 + 1604 with texts in Ref: Grasse IV p. 446 German, Latin + Italian, + in all the Commentarii was issued, in various formats + 5 different languages at least 45 times. The artists who made bothe the small + the large woodcuts for the Commentarii were an Italian, Giorgio Lierale of Udine, + a German named Woldgang Meyerpeck. The big set of figures is in every way immeasurably superior to the small. (Praha) - Prague - Jiri Cerny Rezdalovsky known as Melantrich. - Dioscorides was born in Anazaiba, Cilica.

Bugloss, Vipers Echium Vulgare - The common name has a complex derivation - from the Latin Buglossa, + the Greek bouglossos, meaning "ox-tongue." Echium an old Greek name meaning viper was applied to the plant at a later date p. 655 Gerard's Herbal (L597) Buglossa vulagis - Common Buglosse or garden Buglosse Buglossa - p. 141 Fuchs (1542).

The Library - 4th Series Vol. 2 (1921-22) p. 117-131. Z 671 L69 P. H. Mattioli - Commentaries on the Materia Medica (1544) The book represents the sum total of plant knowledge in Italy at that period + was widely read. The earleir editions were illust. with small woodcuts of no great artistic merit. It was no doubt Mattioli's intention to publish his "editio renovata" in Italy; but circumstances must have led him to allow the majority of the large illust. of plants to be used in the first placefor a Bohemian translation of the 1st 4 books of his work. In 1554 Mattioli went to Bohemia as physician to Archduke Ferdinand + lived in [inserted] *born in Prauge in 1525-1600. [end inserted] Prague for many years. A Bohemian named * Hagek z Hagkw undertook to translate the 1st 4 books fo the Commentaries into Bohemia. The result was the 1562 ed. of the Commentaries printed in Prague + illust. for the 1st time with large woodcuts, (initial G.S. on over 100 blocks - removal in later ed. 2nd ed. (in German) - Prague 1563. 3rd ed. Valgrisi - Venice 1565. Nissen Valgrisi used the enlarged cuts only in an Italian ed. of 1565 + a Latin one of 1570 + thenceforth employed the smaller figures again. The only portions fo the book in Latin are the Epistola nuncupatoria, a Privilega, the names of plants, + a few verses at the end. Printer - Georgius Melantrichus ab Aventino (printer of a Bohemian ed. of the Bible in 1570) printed in gothic type, + the Latin is roman. 20 unnumb. fol + 392 numb. fol. + 26 unnumb. fol. Register: *6, xx6, xxx4, xxxx4, A-Z (incl. W)6, Aa-Zz (incl. Ww)6 Aaa-Www6, Xxx4. Contains 589 of the large figures of plants, these being the 1st impressions of the bulk of the large plant figures contained in the well known Valgrisi ed. of 1565 + later. The 'first impressions' of the woodcuts were undoubtedly the best (in this ed.); more os in the case, on account of the fact that later ed. were printed on inferior paper. A system of shading the drawings in this herbal by a very skilful use of parallel lines, with occ. cross hatchings is employed + is often used with great delicacy.