Farfel Notebook 04: Leaves 223-316

A.Manutius - 4 Greek types * 1) Erotemata of C. Lascaris Feb 1494/95 Aristotle model for the type - hand of Immanuael Rhusotas. 2) introduced 1496 - July 1499 (6 books) Greek Horse (1497) 3) July 1499 in the Scholia on Nicander attached to the Dioscorides. (most successful & durable of all the Aldine Greeks.) 4) 1st used for the ed. princeps of Sophocles in 1502.

Editio Princeps of all texts. The Aldine Aristotle was the largest venture of Greek printing in the 15th C & the 1st major objective in his publishing programme. The 1st two Aldine Greek types (146 & 114 mm), both here represented, were cut by Francesco Griffo & apparently modelled on the hand of Immanuel Rhusotas; many accounts were cast seperately & set through vertical [Runing?]. The 2 extent works of Theophrastos (The Historia Plantarum & De Causis Plantarum) conetitute, - Dioscorides, The most important contributions to botanical science during antiquity. Theophrastos was a pupil, collaborator & then successor to Aristotle. After his death Theophrastos became head of the Lyceum, the school school founded by Aristotle, & he inherited the great medicinal grden & Aristotle's library, which was one of the largest assembled in classical times. Aristotle of his works the Organum is perhaps the most influential; from it arise the Aristolelian scientific method & the Aristotelian logic. In the 9th C Arabian scholars introduced to Islam, & Moslum theology, speculation & natural science all took on an Aristotelian form. It was largely from the Arab & from Jewish thinkers, also largely influenced by Aristotle, that he became the philosopher par excellence of the Christian Middle Ages. Scholasticsm is essentially an Aristotelian system & it became almost heretical to question Aristotle's observations & conclusions.

232 Wi nter Farm Books Maine April ' 86 $35 c. 1400Leonardus [Mathaei] de Utino. (d. 1469) Sermones aurei de sanctis. 1499 Strassburg : Martin Schott undated , about 1483. fo. Ref: Goff L-163 HC 16126 BMCI 93 See Haebler Plate 93 Cop : Harv CL, New L., LC (Type 1)

360 leaves . 2b :41 lines, 202 X 123 mm Type 99 2 to 7 line spaces left for capitals. rather heavy text type.

The earliest books registered from Schott's press is a Plenarium (4 Oct) 1481. He died 22 Nov. 1499.

Famous Dominican preacher Leonardo di Matteo of Udine. -one of the most influential preachers of his time; his sermons were 1st printed at Cologne \3) & Venice (1) 1473. \composed in 1446. (Golden Sermons on the Saints) Martin Schott - Mantelin's son in law.- A Rusch. J. Schott (1500 - 1544)

Popular collection of 65 sermons. Leonardo's sermons are remarkable specimens of vast learning : they include a mass of quotations from, & reference to , not the curch fathers , but also the classical poets - such as Ovid & Javenal. In the penultimate sermon Leonardo presents a catalogue of the 25 classes of hypocrites to whom he applies discriptively picturesque vernacular names : e.g., the Gratacieli ("Sky scrapers" because they conctantly raise their hands in a false show of piety) , Capitorti ("BentHeads," because they walk - bowed head feigning humility), Mel in Bocca ("Honey-Mouths," who dispense poison by using sweet words), etc. The collection was a best-seller, first appearing in print in 1473, & being reprinted at least 15 times in the 15 c alone.

Prior of the Dominican monestary at Bologna. Leonardo Mathaeis de Utino (called Italicus) was professor of theology at the Univ. of Bologna; he preached before Pope Eugene IV in 1435 at Florence - was active in Rome. Venice, Milan & elsewhere. He lived until after 1470

Haebler - M. Schott was the son of a Strassburg citizen & married a daughter of J. Mentelin; perhaps inherited, together - the house, also his father-in-law's press. But Mentelin died in 1478, Where as Schott can be traced as a printer only from the Autumn of 1481. In his stock one cannot find that Mentelin influenced him in the least. He died in 1499 & his son continued the business, but never used his father's archetype. Martin's earliest [inserted]text[end inserted] type, which he continued to use when he had enriched his stock - new types, must be considered as an archetype. -famous theologian in Bologna & provincial of his order in lower Lombardy, who distinguished himself in the gret church Councils of Ferrara & Florence.

233 Winter Farm Books Maine April '86 $35

[inserted] See #31 -Lyons ed. 1493 T-91[end inserted] Terentius Afar, Publius. ------- Comoediac. Strassburg : Johann (Reinhard) Gruninger, 1 Nov.1496. N.B: Cum directorio vocabulorum glossa interleneari, et commentariis Donati, Guidoris, et Ascensii. Add : Vita Terentii. Polair 3667 folio. [inserted] See Schreiber plate 29 for a leaf from 1496 ed. [end inserted] Ref Goft T94 HG 15431 Schramm XX p.22, BMCI 110 Cop PML, NYPL, LC(R) {Quarta Actus --) HEHL. rubricated {Phormionis CXLIII ziiii) (a6);bc8d-z A-E6 I8 180 leaves, the last blank , 7 - 179 numbered Folium I - to CLXXVI , - errors. 9b: 73 lines of commentary surrounding the text, & headline , 237 (246) X 157mm. A page of 48 lines of text on 6a measures 214mm. Types 145, title, headlines & c. ; 89 , title, text; 64 b, commentary ; 48 , point letters. Spaces, - guide letters left for capitals ; large ornamental capital on 6a. The headlines give the names of the plays & numbers of the acts. Besides the wood cut of the theatre on 1" & 6b there are full page woodcuts at the beginning of each play, & smaller cuts at the beginning of each scene. 145 - large Type for headings, & c. Takes the place of 150 about 1495 , thence used continuously to end of period. h - tail level - line. Many various forms of majuscules. Both straight & round footed r, b - small round loop. 64b smaller Roman Type - 1st used in Terence, 1496 : in end of period. 48 very small Type, used for index letters only. used in various issues Gratianus & Terence, & c. 89 larger Roman Type - 1st used in Terence, 1496: in use at end of period. - full page woodcut of a theater on titlo, repeated on f.6, 6 other full page woodcuts, & some 150 smaller woodcuts in the text \Large opening woodcut initial

Gruninger developed & 1st used the method of combining small woodcut illustrations into various groupings in this work. Many of these same blocks are also included in his Horace of 1498. (See # 434) The career of J. Gruninger spanned nearly 50 years from 1483 - 1532 but it was with the fine series of illust. books produced around the turn of the century on which his fame mainly rests (Terence, Horace, Virgil, Boethius.) -Aug.25, 1501 (See 434 March 12 1498) (Aug 28 1502 See #356) - 1st ed - these notable illust. & 1st ed. - Sebastian Brant's commentary "The Virgil is the finest book of the 3 classical ed. of Gruninger & the printer did not resort to the ugly economy of composite blocks as in the 2 preceding (Horace & Terence)" Hind. -Text & commentary are both in roman types & only the large text type & the interlinear gloss are in gothic. Sebastian Brant was the editor of both the Boethius & the Virgil, but it is highly probable that he had a hand in the production of the Horace & the Terence. - of the 158 illust. scenes in the book, only 1 was not made up of a combination of some of the 82 separate woodcuts available. 135 identical in all copies, but in 22 instances the woodcuts differ. -T101 Gruninger, 11 Feb 1499 Polain 3670 BMC I, 113 2nd Latin ed. T-107 " , 5 March 1499 BMC I, 113 - German. The Phormio, or A Parasite's Brains to the rescue, dramatises the help in love rendered to 2 youths who are cousins. The Parasite Phormio, in collusion - Antipho, one cousin, engineers a legal quirk by wich Antipho recieves an order of court to marry a pretty & lonely mourner - whom he has fallen in love. Cousin Phaedria is desperately fond of a music girl, but as desperately devoid of means. Phornio's smartness in getting money & the double life lead by Antipho's uncle, Chremes, (?) happiness for the youth. Sympathy is - the parasite when old Chremes, by endeavering to maltreat him, brings about merited exposure in the eyes of his wife.