Farfel Notebook 06: Leaves 397-468

462 Quaritch London June '97 50L = $82.22

Eusebius Caesariensis (Eusebius Pemhilus c.260-c.340) Historia ecclesiastica [translated by Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 345-410) Rome: Hoannes Philippus de Lignamine 1st press., 15 May 1476. f^o

See #367 #54 Ref: Goff E-126 HC 6710 Pell 4637 IGI 3761 Pr 3398 GW 9436 BMC IV 34 Haebler plate 31 (36) Copy: B Maw CL (2nd issue) HEHL, New L, Brit M, Paris BN, Lyon B Man, Oxford Bodl. 220 leaves, the 1st blank. 6^a: 32-34 lines. 213x126-8mm. 120mm - my leaf as well as Stanford Capital spaces; few spaces ldft for Greek [P1] Types: 125 R - large text type. Single Qu with tail curving upwards as teh end; A with sloping serif across top, wide H, single large steep hyphen. In use throughout. [a-m^10 n^12 o^10 p^8 q-y^10] no signatures. -Libri vndecimi capitula feliciter incipiut. -

- The pritners name appears in the dedication. - THe 1st book printed by Lignennine is the Quintilian completed 3 Aug. 1470. He continued printing steadily until 15 May 1476 when there is a break in his activity, which does not seem to have resumed until 1481 (2nd press) - 3 books only. - The use of Z for & is apparently found only in this book. - original issue with dedication to Pope Sixtus IV. (1471-1484( 2nd " " to Cardinal Guillaume. d' Estouteville.

- Lignamine - the 3rd printing establishment in Rome. He (HEHL copy) was a native of Messina + papal physician. - As originally issued, this book began on I6b whith a dedication by Lignamine to the Pope occupying 3 pages. When the dedication to Estouteville was subsitituted the whole of the 1st quire was reprinted. iN the issue with the dedication to the Pope the type page of quire [a] is 124-5mm broad + the 1st quire [q] is also different beign 128mm broad + beginning A] Postolorium Svccessionllnibus - The book was thus apparently printed on 2 presses, the 2nd starting with quire [q]

The great Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius (c260-2340 the earliest history of the Christian church. Rufinus (c340-410) made a rather free translation, + added 2 books XXXI carrying on down tto the death of Theodosius the Great (395). The value of the work does not so much lie in its literary merit, but in the weath of the materials which it furnishes for a knowledge of the early Church many prominent figures of the 1st 3 centuries are known to us only from its pages.

THe physician J. Philippus de Lignamine of Messins belonged to the court of Popes Paul III + Sixtus IV (1414-1484, reg. 1471-84) + probably was never a printer himself. ALthough in the colophons only his name is to be found, yet from his dedications we understand that "his printers" printed for him. We can even prove that among these printers, there were also Germans. Pope Sixtus IV's work" De Sanguine Christi " \published in 1472 bears the same initials God. AI. Wich we find also in the Augustinus printed in Subiaco, whilst other books are signed B.R. + B, R, M. We find then that several printers worked for Lignamine + that he allowed them ot put their initials in the books they had printed. But the type in which the books issued from his press are set is the same for all of them. It is approximately the largest roman tyep which was used in the 15h C. for the printing of whole texts, a type bearing a Roman character but of considerable originality. FO rthe later books the type was provided with a double series of majuscules of wich the smaller ones have only the height of the lower case letters. Like Sweynheym + Pannartz Lignamine gave the Pope Sixtus IV an account of his activity in a petition from which we learn that the editions of his books must have been very modest. His press was in operation until the year 1476; in 1481 Johann Neumeister in Foligno had a type that seems to have been in imitation of Lignamine.

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Valturius, Robertus (1413-84) [Italian] Opera dell'arte militaire. See #209 #147 #269 Verona: Boninus de Boninis, 17 Feb. 1483 f^0 (Paolo Ramusio, tr.) Ref: Goff V-90 HC 14849 Sander 7483 Pr 6922 BMC VII 952 Libro VII riiii Copy: HEHL, PML, NYPL (P)

314 leaves. 1,7 + 314 blank. 10^a: 36-38 lines + headline (book number) 204(216)x125mm Types: 114R: 90 G inscriptions on diagram on G1^b. Capital spaces, a few with guide letters. WOodcuts. [*]^6; a-d^8 e^6 gg^8 h^10 i-u^8 xy^6 z^8 x^8 g RXAB^6 C-E^8; FG^6 HI^8 K^10 L-N^8 O^10

The cuts are those of the Latin ed. but generally more worn. THere are a few slight changes in the order. There are many irregularities in the length of the type pages, especially at the inmost openings of quines. Tyeps 114R [P2] square clear text type, with single Qu, the Q with long curved tail. In use in 1483 + in small quantities earlier. 90G [P1] rather heavy compact text type with mostly double crossed capitals. M^88 + 88. No hyphen. Used for the 1481-2 Blondus + in small quantities in the books of 1482.

1st book printed at Verona by Boninus was 1481 (a total of b in that town) By 6 June 1483 he had completed his 1st book at Bresica Verona - 13 Feb. 1483 Goff V-89. in latin This ed. contains 95 cuts copied from those of 1472 + 1 cut which does not appear in the earlier ed.

See #346 #261 #147 The printer-bookseller Boninus, in reality Dobrisa Dobrie of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) in Damatia, modern Yugoslovia is a very interesting figurine in early printing. Having first produced a book at Venice with another printer of Dalmation origin, Andrea de Paltasichis Having first produced a book at Venice with another printer of Dalmation origin,, Andrea de Paltasichis (Paltasie; from Kotoro) in 1478-79, Boninus later produced the richly illustrated Latin + Italian editions of Valturius at Verona in 1483 + in 1487 important illustrated editions of Dante (the 1st fully illustrated ed.) + Aesop at Brescia.

HEHL #104504 no rub. Libro Septimo - begins q^3 ends t^6. De higiorni religiosi de alcurni meficione in felici ouero infami + dil tempo apto a guerizare C.I. my leaf r^4 (of 8) in Ca. IIII [inserted] one other woodcut in book 7 on r^3. total of Ca XVII. [end inserted] (begins r^2 - ends r^5) - De la forine de (ordinare li lozameti + de costumi de qlli total of 12 books - most of the woodcuts appera in books 10 + 11.

Calturius composed his book "On Military Matters" about 1460. After a wide circulation in MSS it was pritned in 1472. The text of the book is on the whole rather backward looking + contains no revolutionary military principles - it is the 1st book printed with illust. of a technical or scientific character depicting the progressive engineering ideas of the author's own time - the illust are the first true Italian book illust. probably after designs by Matteo de Pasti the medallist + pupil of Alberti.

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