Farfel Notebook 04: Leaves 223-316

St. Thomas Aquinas - Italian philosopher & Doctor of the Church, the greatest figure of Scholasticism, one of the principal saints of the Catholic Church.

Sancti Thomae Aquinatis - doctoris angelic - Ordinis Praedicatorum - Commentum - In Quatuor Libros Sententiarum - Magistri Petri Lombardi St. Thomas Aquinas - Opera Omnia Vol 6 & 7 189.4 [?T45Ib?] (Stanford) Prologues * - Liber Primus - De Mysteris Trinitatis Distinctio I - XLVIII - Liber Secundus - De Rerum Corporalium et Spiritualium Creatione et Forunatione, Aliisque Pluribus eo Pertinentibus. Distinctio I - XLIV - Liber Tertius - De Incarnatione Verbi Distinctio I - XL - Liber Quartus - De Sacramentis Distinctio I - L Commentary, I Sentences, VIII. i. 2, ad 2 "The being of creatures is not through anything else if the word through denotes the intrinsic formal cause; if it denotes the exemplar and efficient cause, then their being is through divine being, not through themselves." - a leaf from what was once a very handsome manuscript of an important text, which was one of the definitive text-books of the Middle Ages which crowned several centuries of study in Biblical exegesis, in doctrine & in Canon Law. St. Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Sentences of P. Lombard which is considered to be his earliest major work, composed [insert] (St. Jacques) [end insert] in 1254 - 6. At that time he had recently arrived in Paris from Cologne, where he had studied under Albert Magnus (regent master at Paris 1242 - 48. 1229 - Dominicans [?opened?] their general Theological school at St. Jacques in Paris.

225 Los Angeles Heritage Book Shop Feb. 1986 $25.00 b. Assisi 1182 (81?). (Feast, Oct 4) d. [?there?], Oct 3, 1226 [Francis of Assisi, St. ] I Fioretti Del Glorioso Pove/ Rello Di Cristo S. Francesco / Di Assisi. Chelsea: Ashendene Press - C. H. St John Hornby - [insert] Feb. 12 [end insert] 1922 Descriptive Bibliography - XXXI. (1894-1935) Gunet Z239.2 A8Z9f Octavo. Collection. A, 6 leaves; [insert] (222x150mm) [end insert] B-I, L-R in eights [insert] (222x150mm) [end insert] [?Guovst?] 2239.2 A8F81 Italian Text. Pp. 2 & VIII x 2 & 240, consisting of title page, as above, p. 1 (verso blank); Indice de Capitoli pp. 1-viii, followed by blank page with front is piece on verso; text pp. 1-289; note of number of copies printed & printers mark C, in red, p. 240. printed on Batchelor paper with Hammer & Anvil water mark. The chapter -headings & shoulder - notes are printed in red & The initials of each chapter in red or blue. 1978-9 $450 1997 $1450 240 copies printed on paper & 12 copies on vellum Type - Subiaco Great [illegible]. Woodcuts by J.B. Swain from drawings by Charles M. Gere. [insert] This was the last of 4 books Gere illust. for Hornby. [end insert] Contains 53 illust. The initial letters were designed by Graily Hewitt. Bound in limp vellum with green silk ties. Ransom Private Presses, p. 206, #34; [?Tomkinson?], [insert] Hornby 31 [end insert] p.7, #34. -The complete edition of Little Flowers of St. Francis, a series of short anecdotes. Cath. encycl. The vitae and legendae on Francis' life are extremely numerous....Less significant historically are the Actus b. Francisci et sociorum ejus (c 1320), excessively poetical writings stemming from the March of Ancona. Of these, 53 chapt. constitute the Floretum s. Francisci, which was revised in the vernacular as the Fioretti di San Francesco (c 1380) The Fioretti have enjoyed the greatest popularity, but they too are legendary and romantic and lack genuine historical value. From the Fioretti come many of the most beautiful stories of St. Francis.

Ashendene - Hertfordshire. The personal element is much less discernible in Ashendene than in Doves and Kelmscott. Whereas with Morris and Cobden-Sanderson printing was a major activity of daily life, it is a separate and minor phase of Mr. Hornby's affairs. Taking as a basis the type of Sweynheym and Pannartz - Lactantius (1465) and following it very closely, Emery Walker and Sydney Cockerell collaborated in working out the design for waht was to become the Subiaco Type of the Ashendene Press. The punches were cut by E.P. Prince and the type cast by Messrs. Miller and Richard. Chapt. 33 "How St. Clare, by Command of the Pope, Blessed the Bread that lay on the Table, where upon the sign of the Holy Cross appeared on every loaf."

1st ed of the Fioretti of St. Francis - Vicenza: Giovanni Leonardo Longe - 1476. - a collection of legends and traditions from various sources on the religious life of the early Franciscans. Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages "The "little flowers" are anecdotes, usually of an extravagant character, concerning St. Francis and numerous other friars contemporary with him. The Fioretti, of course, is The Title given to the vernacular (Tuscon) collection put together in the 2nd 1/2 of the 14th C. -1 p.l., viii pp., (1) leaf, 239, (1) pp. This is the complete Ashendene ed. of the Fioretti; Hornby had produced a book of selected Fioretti in 1904, also with woodcuts designed by Gere and initials by Hewitt. -Francis founded the Order of Poor Ladies, afterwards known as the Poor Clares, in honor of their first abbess, Clara Sciffi, a beautiful heiress, who left her home at the age of 15 to enter upon a religious life.

226 Los Angeles Feb 1986 $10.00 Biblia Latina. Speier: Peter Drach, [insert] (1477-1504) [end insert] 1489. f [insert] degree symbol [end insert] Ref: B-587 Hc 310323105 BMC II 497 GW 4264 [?Cap?]: HEHL, PML See Plate 77 Haebler The Heading type is the usual "Pfauenfeder" style. Type 11, 12. 582 leaves. 2 col. 3^a 48 lines and headline, 215(231)x134mm. Types: 180 title, headlines, [?and?] c., of Bible; 160, headlines of Interpretationes; 90 text; 84, Interpretations. Capital spaces. 180 - large heading type, [illegible] P, used in 1486-9 160 - smaller heading type, P with serrated back. Often mixed with letters from 180, used 1489-95. 90 - Text Type, used 1486-91. 84 - small Text Type, the rounder letters [?barred?] aslant, used 1482-9.

P. Drach - 1st dated book Speier - 18 May 1477. father [insert] alive as late as 1489 [end insert] and son best authorities assign all the books of the press to the younger Drach.

Interpretations of Hebrew Names - Medieval dictionary of Hebrew names contained in the Bible. The lengthy list is arranged in strictly alphabetical order and became by the 3rd decade of the 13th c. a regular apparatus appended to most copies of the Bible. Although once assumed to be the work of Remigus of Auxerre (10th C), the dictionary was most likely compiled between 1210 and 1220 by Stephen Langton, distinguished theologian, teacher at the Univ. of Paris, and later Archbishop of Canterbury. (famous as mediator in drawing up the Magna Carta, and who taught for 20 yrs at the Univ. of Paris, d. 1228.) The last of the "Fontebus ex gracia" editions. "A Brief Table of the interpretation of the Propre names which are chiefly founde in the olde Testamet" 1560 Geneva Bible.

Peter Drach the younger was a wealthy and respected citzen of Speier who several times filled high offices. At the beginning of the 16th C he transferred his domicile and printing office to Worms where he died about 1505. He printed practically nothing but Latin books. Type 11, 12. [insert] Haebler plate 77 [end insert] With the text type of the Bible we have to deal with a [?fount?] which M. Wenssler especially had long favored; the style of this type prevailed principally in Strassbourg. Drach's type shows a great similitude to one of J. Pruss's as well as to one of Wenssler's; it is hardly possible to decide which of these two types he took as a model. At any rate this type is used by Wenssler a year (1485) before Drach and Pruss had it. Latin Bible. Basel, J. Amenback, 1481. - 2nd of the so called "Fontibus ex Graecis" [insert] group of 9 connected Latin Bibles probably from 5 printers but all curiously without location on printer named. [end insert] [insert] from the opening words of the Latin distiche found in them. [end insert] ed, named after the distichs printed at the end of the Apocalypse. This group of Latin Bibles, claimed with good reason, to be superior in text to other contemporary ed. Latin Bible. Lyon, M. Reinhart and N. Philippi, 1482 - The 2nd Bible printed at Lyon and The 3rd printed in France. It is one of the so called Fontibus ex Graecis [?Hebracorum?]" ed. following J. Amerbach's 1st of 1479 in providing a scholarly superior text (cf. distich at end of Apocalypse) HEHL (84883) Rubricated in red. my leaf AA^6 (of 8) [?hominum?] [?hebnaicorum?] - begins AA^1 follows the Apocalypsis ends EE^8 (end of volume)