Farfel Notebook 04: Leaves 223-316

227 Los Angeles Dawsons Feb. 1986 $30.00 Josephus, Flavius. (born in 37or38-died after 100) Debello Judaico. [In Italian] Guerra dei Giudei. Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, 6 July 1493. f^0 Ref: J-490 HCR 9460 BMC VI 649 Haebler plate 12/16 Type 2 Cop: HEHL YUL, New L. p 58 h2 [*^2] ; a -z^8[?2?]^8Rx^6. 208 leaves, the lot blank. 4^b: 40 lines, 229x139mm. Capital spaces with guide letters. Type: 114 R^2 - mixed state, 1st used 1492. 114R - large bold text type - in used in and after 1487. B. di [insert] name most closely assoc. with Savonarole. [end insert] Libri - press - 9 Nov. 1482 [insert] (earliest dated but unsigned) [end insert] - 25 April [insert] painted until 1508. [end insert] 1500. Josephus, Flavius - general and historian. Played a questionable role in the great Jewish war against Rome which broke out in 66 and later became a favorite of the emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitan. He adopted Vespasian's name, Flavius. He wrote *The Jewish War, a valuable historical document; The Antiquities of the Jews, his greatest work, a history of the Jewish race and his autobiography, The Life.

Bartolommeo di Libri - out of the more than 120 ed. which are now credited to him, only 8 bear his name. Proctor considered that B. di Libri was the actual printer of the Homer attributed to D. Chalcondylas (see #159) who was probably the designer of the Greek fount, which is similar to the Lascaris printed at Milan in 1476. -Josephus' famous and sympathetic account of the Jewish Wars with Rome (67-73 AD) Written only a few years afterward by the Jewish writer and general, it is the only classical text to refer to the lives of [insert] (? a later interpolation) [end insert] Jesus and John the Baptist, and to quote from the Old Testament. -Josephus' writings were much in use in Medieval times and supplied the popular picture of Jewish history. His account of the Jewish war remains a primary source on Roman warfare and the history of the period.

De antiquitate Judaica provides 1st hand information on pre-Christian monastic communities such as Pharisaic, Sadducean and Essene movements. The passage on Jesus calling him the Messiahprobably forged later by a Christian censor. His comprehensive history of the Jews, beings with Creation and progresses up to the War with Rome (66 AD.)

Type 114R^2 - large bold text type. Heavy single [?Qn?]. Small e with shallow loop: 3 forms of Rx. In the later mixed state (114 R2) are found additional heavy separate Q tilted sharply to the right and lighter single [?Qn?]. The large roman type of the Aretinus and the Josephus was only used in his more important books.

Bartolommeo di Libri - as a priest he was doubtless a man of considerable culture. His activity as a printer begins in 1482 and extends into the following century He printed much although like other Florentine printers, he issued together with more voluminous and learned books - he printed even in the Greek languagean especially large number of smaller books in the Italian language. He also did much to make Savonarola's essays and sermans known.

228 Los Angeles Dawson's Feb. 1986 $50.00 Gritsch, [crossed out] Johannes [end crossed out] Konrad [insert] ? - 1475 [end insert] (fl. 1430) d. ca1410 Quadragesimale. [insert] see #343 [end insert] Augsburg: Johann Wiener, 1477. f^0 Ref: G-492 H.8065 BMCII 357. Cop: HEHL, NewL. UCalBL. letters in text R,L,M - xxii Plate 7 Haebler - type 2 509 leaves. 48^a : 38 lines and headline (sermon - number) 226(231) x132mm. Type 119. Capital spaces. Gothic text type, appears to have [crossed out] been [end crossed out] suspended 120[113] in 1476. It clearly resembles zainen 118 in general appearance.

J. Wiener - 1st dated book - 20 Aug. 1475. Last book - 1479, no book of 1478 is known, and his whole registered output comprises only 12 books. Printed one illustrated book the Vegetius (Goff V-108) Gritsch, an early 15th C Franciscan enjoyed great fame as a popular preacher, and he was renowned because of his knowledge of canon law, philospohy and exigesis.

Type 1 - similar to the Printer of H. Ariminensis As decoration he used about 17mm high contour letters.

HEHL 43361 rubricated in red. / - xlviij, then [?Registrum?]. my leaf just before middle of volume. R7(of 10) -[?Adventdiri?] ....I,K,L,M... sermo vicesimussecundus (total 17 pages) begins Surgens ihs de synagoga itrauit T domu symois [insert] (Simeon) [end insert] luc iiij V C Scdm p astrologi

229 Los Angeles. Dawson's Feb 1986 $50.00 Paraldus, Gulielmus. (d. c 1260) Summa de virtutibus et vitiis. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1479. f0 Ref: P-84 HC 12387 BMCI 261. Plate 44 Haebler Cop: HEHL, LC(T). Pr 1238 and 39. Polain (B)3035 and 3037

432 leaves, the lot and last blank. 10a : 34 lines [insert] see #143 [end insert] and headline, 176 (197)x111mm. Types : 150 headlines and headings; 102, text, 1 to 7 and 9 lines spaces left for capitals. de justicia Section headlines on [illegible] of each leaf with omissions. 150 - used for rubrics, and C. Disappears after 1482 and reappears in 1498. 102 - text type, not used often after 1492. Remarkable for numerous alternative forms of majuscules (4 varieties of C, etc.) 1st dated book of Quentell's press bears date 1479. -most successful of the Cologne printers - he produced some 400 incunabula - was of Strasbourg origin - died 1501. HEHL 92595 De iufticia [insert] (justicia) [end insert] - in sedecim partes (H, to Q1) before - de fortitudine after - de domis my leaf L6 (of 10) rubricated in red and blue.

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