Farfel Notebook 05: Leaves 317-396

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Biblia Latina. Basel: Johann Froben, 27 June 1491 8° Ref: Goff B592 HC 3107 Pell 2329 Polain (B) 664 BMC III 789 GW 4269 Pr 7755 IGI 1674. (157 x 110 mm)

O.T. Jeremiah XLVI → XLVVIII Pii Double column (Interpretationes' Triple column) 56.1 + headline. Initial spaces c guide letters. Types 1:86 G (title, headline, headings), 2:62 G (marginalia) 3:44 G (text). BMC 494 leaves, the 5th blank 125 (131-2) x 76-7 (90) mm. Types: 86 - medium Gothic text type, single hyphen - in use 1491-6 + in 1498 (title, headlines + headings) 62a, verses + some headings in 1st quire. 44, text - very small Gothic type in use in 1491-5 + in 1498. Capital spaces c guide letters. The headlines give the names of the books. Sig: [*]4; a-y A-Z8; 1-108114118; A-D8E6 The 1st octavo Bible; Froben's 1st book, J. Froben, founder of a great printers' dynasty + friend of Erasmus, had worked earlier in Amerbach's shop. This, his 1st independent production, established a new format for the printed Vulgate. He advertized the novelty in the prefatory Exhortatio, saying it had better be called a Bibliola than a Biblia. Of the 75 Vulgate + glossed Vulgate ed. preceding Froben's, 70 (including all Transalpine) editions were folios, + 5 were quartos. Like a number of earlier editions, starting c Amerbach's of 1479, Froben's includes 3 couplets, before the colophon, claiming that it was drawn from Greek + Hebrew sources (Fontibus ex graecis....); like these, it provides marginal concordances. Original to Froben's ed. are the prefatory Exhortatio + Summarium Bible, the Registra or summaries prefixed to each Gospel. + the extension to all the books of the Bible of marginal chapter divisions

HEHL (31136) rubricated in red + blue. Hieremias begins N' (of8) ends P5 (of8) Tabula Alphabetica not present in 1491 ed. of 1495 ed, #72 see Johannes de Lapide - Resolutorum Dubiorum Circa Celebrationem Missarum Occurentium 8 0 Goff J357 Froben's 2nd book + his 1st original publication J. Froben died 1527 - printed over 300 books, including (of Hammelbury) nearly all the works of Erasmus (1491-1527)

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Jacobus de Voragine (Varagine) Legenda aurea sanctorum sive Lombardica historia. [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, about 1475.] f°. Cop. III 6387 Ref: Goff J84 C6387 Pell(V) 83 bis Voull(B) 34, Sch 4326 Schramm II p. 16 + 24 Pr 1559. (C.F. Murray #431. Ref Z24° M98 Vol. 2) Cop: B Pub L, LC, MMu(P)L, PML, NYPL (S) Notin Hais. Oxford, Munchen HSB (Hof-und Stuarts bibliothek) Voragine (jac. de) Legenda Sanctorum [s.n., Augsb. G. Zainer c 1747] Semi roman letter, 43-44 long lines to a full page. folio. 310 x 220 mm. The text type is Zainer's No. 4 (2nd Roman, smaller than 3 → the first - more ornate, BMC 95) used from 1473 onwards + by Bamler in 1479. [a-z, A-Q10R8, table 2] = 400 leaves, numbered to 397 in roman letters. (some not numbered, others c errors) the last numbered leaf is cclxxxxvij, on verso commencing the life of S. Odilia. No sig. or catchwards 163 cuts about 75 x 75 mm. 140/162 The 1st (and only 15th C) Latin ed. c woodcuts printed in Germany. The woodcuts themselves are the 1st German illust. to Voragine, having originally appeared in Zainer's German ed. of 1471-2 (H. 9968) See #105. "but the number n'en est que de 182." Schr 4326 "woodcuts same as → "mais le nombre ne'n est que de 182."

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Jacopo Ancarono or Palladino, Abp. of Florence, born st Teramo (Abruzzo). died in Poland

Theramo, Jacobus de (1350-1417) Le Livre du procès faict et demené entre Belial, {petit in-folio procmeur d'Enfer, et Jhesus, filz de la Vierge Marie et redempteur de nature humaine, translaté de latin en commun language, par Pierre Ferget (Augustine) Lyons: Jean (Johann) Neumeister, 3 mars 1483 (1484 n. st.) Ref: Claudin III p. 356 leaf o5 (of 8) only one known - Copy: - Masson #864 collection → Bibliotheque de l'Ecole National supérieme des Beaux-Arts, 17 quai Malaquais, 75272, Paris Cedex 06. pelit in-folio. 150 fenillets non chiffrés, à 38 ligner par page pleine. Il n'y a par de nom d'imprimeur. Le volume de Belial est illustré d'un grand hambre de fignes sur bois comme dans len diverses éd. du même ouvrage publiées à Lyon. Les Sujets d'illustration sont exactement les mêmes. Ce sont, pour la plupart, des copier retournées des figures de la premièreed. francaise de ce livre, sortie des presses de Martin Huśz à la date du 8 novembre 1481. (See p 181-186 Claudin) (→ 164 ff. à 341.) sign. a-xiii, sans chiffres ni réclames (M-670) The 1st Lyons Missal is typographically, the masterpiece of J. Neumeister, one of the most interesting + ill starred of the 15th C printers. Neumeister was born in Mainz + began printing in Foligno where under the patronage of Emiliano Orfini, he produced the 1st ed. of Dane's Commedia. His Foligno press operated for only a few years + was ended by a period of imprisonment, probably for debt. Neumeister then dropped out of sight until 1479, when he is found as a printer in Mainz. By 1481 he had moved to Albi + by 1483 to Lyons where his printing days ended. (where by the turn of the century he seems to have ended bankrupt. Processus Satanae literature - a genre which had considerable popularity in Medieval Europe → Belial, Processus Mascaron.