Farfel Notebook 04: Leaves 223-316

Books 3 - 6 - devoted to the geography and ethnology of Europe Asia and Africa. 12 - 19 - are concerned , in the most part, with botany, including forestry and agriculture (18). 20 - 27 cover medicinal botany 28 - 32 sumarize the cures to be derived from animal sources. -146 Roman and 329 foreign authors consulted.

The date of this translation by the leading Florentine humanist Landino (1424-1492) doesn't seem to be known, but it must have been completed between 1458 when Ferdinand assumed the Throne and the date (1470) of Jenson's 1st ed.

Book XVII contains the subject of arboriculture, begun in the preceding Books. Book XVIII deals with cerval agriculture; Book XIX [insert] Chapt 1-62 [end insert] with the cultivation of flax and other plants used for fabrics and with vegetable gardening. Hunt Cat. "The best i if scientifically [illegible] exact [?habal?] of the 1st C AD is found in Books XX - XXV of Pliny's Natural History" remarkable encyclopedia of the ancient world, the major source for most mediaeval knowledge. Divided into 37 books, it represents a compilation of 20,000 notices exerpted by Pliny from about 2000 works in all fields of sciences and humanities known in the 1st C. #104148 HEHL liber XIX begins on S1, ends on S6 with cap XI my leaf 141. Pliny recorded the science of Rome at its Zenith. His duties as soldier, lawyer and governor of provinces afforded much time for travel and observation.

239 Dr. Eichenberger Beinwilam See 135 SF = $67.50 Sept. '86 Bartholomaeus Anglicus (fl. [insert] d. c1260 [end insert] 1230-50) [insert] 1200-1240 [end insert] Le proprietaire des choses. Lyons: Mathias Huss, 12 Oct. 1485. f0 Jean Carbichon, t. Pierre Farget, ed. [insert] doctor of theology at the convent of the Augustinians at Lyon. [end insert] Ref: Goff B-144 HC 2518 GW 3416 BMC VIII 262 Pell 1882 Cop: Br.U.L, [insert] copy 303x223mm [end insert] Lyon B Mun, Paris [insert] R218 [end insert] BN, Basd oB. Liure XV liii-lvi a8; a-58; t8; v-2 A-N8 296 leaves, the last blank. 2 col., 3 in table (3b-8b) 20a: 48 lines and headline, 240 (254) x 175 mm. Types: 180 G, headlines: 100 GB Capital appears, nearly all with guide letters. The headline read "Prologue" on 1b-3a and give the numbers and subjects of the books on and after 9a. (19) Woodcuts. Border on 1b. Proctor Types 2, [insert] large round type [end insert] 5 (2011. = 98mm) Reprinted from the 1482 ed. 180 G - title and heading type of German pattern. L has 2 small vertical strokes to the left of the head. In use 1482-93. 100 GB - large text tyep. In use 1484-87. long batarde f, s, ff, ss and curly tailed h. (Mathias Huss, 1482-1500) The 1st book produced by Mathias Huss after taking over the press of Liskinomen [insert] brother or cousin [end insert] Martinus was the Mirror de la redemption [insert] See #305 [end insert] of 12 [insert] 3rd French ed. [end insert] May 1482. In 1483 Mathias had as successive partners Petrus Ungarus and Johannes Schabeler who was still printing with him in July '84. Thence forward to the end of the period, Mathias printed alone. His last work -20 Feb. 1500. Probably produced from 80-100 incunabula.

B-147 - 7 April 1487, 282 leaves 50 lines. (Bordeaux 501, Nancy 60) B-148 - 15 March 1491/92, 224 leaves, 57 [insert] 56 [end insert] lines. (B.Nat) [insert] (Zurich ZB) [end insert] 245 (259) x 172mm Types 140B Proctor Types 7,8. title headlines, headings; 87B. BMC VIII 259 - 12 Nov. 1482 f0 330 leaves, the last blank. 2 col., 3 in table [insert] (3a-8b) [end insert] 17a 46 lines and headline, 244 (259) x175mm Types: 180 G, headlines; 106 GB. Capital spaces, mostly with guide letters. The headlines -Proctor-Types 1,2

De proprietatibus serum - showed some originality, especially in matters botanical. Though, like all such compilations it ultimately depended on Aristotle, Pliny and Isidone of Seville.

read 'premier Prologue', second Prologue on 1a - 3b and give the numbers and objects of the books on and after 9a Woodcuts. H 2514 GW 2415 the 1st ed. of The French Translation. a8; a-v.8; x8; A-I k L-S8 T10 late 12th C in Old england. Martinus Huss - fl. 1478-81 -a German printer. lot ill ust. French book - Le Mirouer de la redemption Lyons - 26 Aug 1478 (Speculum humanae salvationis) Bartholomaeus was a Minorite friar born in England, and a student and professor of theology at Paris. He clearly states the character and purpose of this work as being primarily a brief compilation of passages on the natures and properties of things that are scattered through the works of saints and philosophers. This makes the De proprietatibus serum the 1st important encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. It was also the 1st to incorporate the works of Greek, Arabian and Jewish naturalists and medial writers, which had been translated into Latin shortly before. Many things are added, however, which Bartholomaeus must have discovered from personal knowledge and original reading. The De proprietatibus serum is divided into 18 books. (#15 Political Geography). The work was apparently well know to Shakespeare. -studied at Oxford where "Lu Proprietaine" was begun - completed in the 1240s at Magdeburg. (compiled about 1350) -an encyclopedia written for the common people. Still imprinted for its information on political geography and its account of natural history. The work was written exoterically as a tool for theological students and preachers, but it was widely read. 19 books - 1-2 on spiritual substances 3-7 " mixed " 8-18 " corpreal " 19 on accidents Translated into French in 1372 by Jean Corbichon - commissioned by [insert] Augustinian friar and chaplain to Charles V of France [end insert]

240 Dr. Eichenberger Beinwil Am See 135 SF = $67.50 Sept. '86 Bernardus Clasauallensis, Saint (1090-1153) at Clairveaux. Epistolae. (with the Tractus de miseria huius vitae and other short treatises) not after 1474 Strassburg: Heinrich Eggestein, about 1474. f0 See #443 Ref: Godd B383. Hain 2870 BMC I, 71 GW 3923 Cop: PML, HEHL, New L. .410X278mm (218 - 225) 263 - 271. Leaf 71 89 [insert] 90 [end insert] leaves, 2 col. 4b: 61 lines (60) 282x192mm 1-7 line spaces left for capitals. Type 93 - 3rd small type. Used from about 1475 onwards.

(1466-1484) H. Eggestein - issued the 2nd German Bible prob. in 1470. -in 1470 issued the 1st. printers advertisement. -issued the 1st Psalter in German as a separate book, without date prob. 1473.

Some 500 letters written to emperors, kings, popes, archbishops, counts, dukes, abbots, monks, townsmen, canons, nuns and countesses, between 1116-1153 attest to the extent of Bernard's influence, and succinctly express his vision of Christian Life. (b.1081) Suger - Abbot of St. Denis - the most important man in France, after the king. Pope Eugenius III - the 1st Cistercian Pope. [?Bunard?] - launched the 2nd Crusade at Vezelay (1145). Count Theobald of Champagne - had a reputation for great piety and scrupulous justice - a staunch friend of St. Bernard. Odo succeeded Suger as Abbot of St. Denis in 1151. Henry I of England was uncle of Theobald by Adela, daughter of William the Conqueror, sister of Henry I, and mother of Theobald.

H. Eggestein - born at Rosheim. Became known as a printer in 1466. Must have got his Training as a printer at Mainz. Printed over 50 books. -Crown watermark - a stock Eggestein used in various large format editions, 1473-75. This 1st ed. contains 296 Epistles. Two letters of political and spiritual content are addressed to the "Regima iherosolimorum."