Farfel Notebook 06: Leaves 397-468

greater part of his limited activity as a pritner. Only in a few books did he use together with this type a heading type which seems to have been based on Ulrich Han's gothic text type. C. Arnold was a native of the Duchy of Prussia + possibly was an assistant in Christoph Valdarfer's printing office. In 1472 he opened a printing office of his own in Venice. During his 1st years he printed exclusively with a roman type + from 1476 just as exclusively with gothic types. The book bearing his signature is dated 1479. - Two recensions of the Compendium theologicae veritatis were published in the 15th C. That with the more flowering explicit printed in Nuremberg, Speyer, Cologne, Ulm, Deventer + Strassburg treated the text as anonymous. That with the breifer explicit, printed in Venice with several Lyons reprints, attributed the text to ALbertus Magnus. The extensive MSS tradition made further attributions to Alexander de Hales, St. Bonaventura, Aegidius de Columna, St. Thomas Aquinas + others. The tree author, Hugo Ripelin of Strassburg (O.P. d. 1268.) was prior of the Dominican convent of Strassburg. Magnus - the most important observer of nature that the middle Ages had yet produced, the greatest naturalist since Pliny. His most valuable studies are perhaps his botanical + zoological works.

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Monograph by Duncan H. Olmsted Beckeley: Temalpais Press, 1962.

Jacobus de Voragine Legendario de Sancti (sic) vulgate hystoriado) Italian. See #238 #470 Venice: Bartolomeius Zanni, April 8, 1503. f^0 Ref: Sanders Vol 3+4 #7720 3rd ed. by Zanni Essling #681 Cop: National Library of Florence.

24 ff num. sign: a^8-z^87^8 Rx^8 A^8-C^8 D^10. car. rom. titre goth. 2 col. 62 lines Sanders Dans le texte (230) vignettes des editions: 1492 ct 1494 (#7716+17) V. du titre: fontispice de l'ed. 5 Dec. 1499 Essling #678 #679 181 cuts with 7 repeats 239 cuts #7716 Manfredo de Monte ferato. Venice. 1492 #7717 Matheo Codeca. Venice. 1494.

Essling #680 B. Zanni. Venice: 5 Dec. 1499. 240 ff. 2 col. 62 lines. 239 cuts the greater part of which are from 1492 + 1494 editions Goff J-181 Sanders #7719 C. 6503 IGI 5047 Copy: PML

1st edition by B. Zanni: 1490

De Sancto Simone et ivda zii 178. (recto) De Sancto Quintino Cap cix with woodcut. (verso)

HEHL 99592 C. 6500 J. de Voragine (Italian) 1484, 2 col., 631., 213 ff. no woodcuts - in this edition: cap CVI Di sancto simone 7 inda CVII De sancto quintino begins "Quintino di paretado nobile 7 citadino romao. Uenut...." CVIII Di sancto eustackio CV De undecca millia virgine. CIIII Di Sancto frisato. Total of clxv cap. ixxxx to cviii - Oct. iii-clxv - June to Nov. CVIIII to clxv - Nov i+ii - end of may last sancto nicolao de toletino

July cap XXV Maria magdaline. XXVI Apolinare. XXXVII Christina virgine. XXXVIII jacobo apostolo.

Bartholomaeus de Zauris - 1st signed book is the Saxo ferato 31 Jan. 1486/7, his 2nd the Mesue of July 1487. He continued work well into the next century, printing both at Venice + at portese in 1489 + 1490. Zanis printed upward + of 50 incunabula During the 16th C he issued a study stream of books, especially illustrated folio ed. of Latin + Italian classics. He is perhaps better known, however, as having been summoned to his native town of Portise in 1489 to print the town's statutes, the only-early book 1490 printed at Portese (a small town near Brescia) In the 15th C Zanni had no device of his own. But in the 16th C he adopted the figure of St. Bartholomew. He was succeeded by Augustine de Ianis who worked until 1528. D. Reichling #1659 In folio, chas. rom: 224 ff. non num. sigs a-z, &, 7, Rx, AB^8 2 col. 6011. 1490, a di ult. di Marzo J. de Voragine. Aurea. legenda Sanctorum.

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Jake Zeitlin, Christmas 1938. 125 Cpoies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press.

Richard Day. (1552-1607?) 1995 Sold for $4887 A Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in Our Time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies..... Pirage Cat 22 #55 London; R. Yardley + Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1590 8 p.l, 138 pp, [2] leaves. Ref: S.T.C. 6431 4th ed. of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. COp: HEHL, PML #60969

Small quarto. Roman and Black letter. Printed within fine woodcut borders after A. Durer + H. Holbein, portrait of the Queen (Elizabeth) on back of title. Lengthe of leaf 181mm. my leaf E^1 in black letter (of 4) Prayers 13 A-Y, Aa-Oo^4 p. 11 A short speech before the Lords prayer. as listed in index p. 12 A prayer to God the Father. p. 15 A " " " " " in Christes name. Dance of Death borders begin on p. 82 leaf foreedge - gilt.

1) R. Day - [and anon. compilation; not by R. Day], Christian prayers + meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek + Latine. J. Daye, 1569 London HEHL 60973 S.T.C. 6428 Often quoted as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. 4^0. e^1 - small roman letter.

List 245 1953 Brentano's sold a leaf for $1.00 2) Richard Day. A Book of Christian Prayers ... London 1578 John Daye dwelling over Aldergate. 7 3/8 x 5 1/16" (107x128mm) HEHL 438000:4 S.T.C. 6429. 2nd e. 4^0. Copy: PML E1 - a capital Roman letter. Prayers 13 - A Prayer to God the Father Prayers 1 - 137 (Ooij) p. 126 - 132. the Letany + Suffrages. Prayers 5. - A Prayer to be said at our returning home.

Picture of Queen Elizabeth - at prayer in her apartment. on the reverse of Table.

1+2 - Both texts are sometimes referred to as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book, though textually they differ except for a very few prayers. In #6428 the 1st section (quires a-p) is largely selected with minor modification from #4028 ( d. 1575? by Henry Bull - "Christian prayers + holy meditations") - It was left for John Day to put out a series of prayer books which in format + general appearance resembled the older primers (Hour Books). Teh pages were decorated with borders, which showed schenes from the Old + N.T., a series depicting the Dance of Death + other allegorical + decorative devices. The tile page had an elaborate design of the Tree of Jesse, + all in all the books bore a remarkable physical resemblance to the Primers fo the Old Religion. Day's 1st volume was published in 1569 (#6428), but after the 1st ed. he dropped all the prayers in foreign languages + put out the work again with a new title, (#6429) "A book of Christian prayers....." in 1578.

3 R. Day. Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the auncient writers and best learned in our tyme. Blackletter. small 4^0. John Day 1581 dwelling over Aldergate HEHL 438000: 96 STC. 6430 Printed throughout with woodcut borders of Biblical subjects + the Dance of Death, some bearing the engraver's initials C.I. Woodcut title (McKenuow + Fergusson, No. 128) with portrait of Queen Elizabeth on verso. Fore-edge gilt. Ed-black letter. p. 12-15 verso - A prayer to God the Fatehr after A prayer to God the sonne 3rd ed. before A short speech before the Lordes prayer total 138 pages - end Ooij - then index.