Farfel Notebook 06: Leaves 397-468

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(Caius Sollius 430-488 Sidonius, Appolinaris Epistolae et poemata (carmina) (Edited, with a commentary, by Joannes Baptista Pius pii) May 4, 1498 f^0 Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, for Hieronymus de Asula and Johannes de Abbatibus. Ref: Goff S-494 HC 1287 Pell 910 Polain 282 Pr 6038 BMC VI 773 Oates 2313. Haebler Plate 23 Types 3 + 10 COpy: HEHL, LC, PML, FOlg SL, YUL

A^4; ab^6 c-s^8 Mazarine. 144 leaves 6^a, 57-55 lines of commentary surrounding text 228x147mm. A col. of 40 lines 39-30l. of text on 8^a measures 220 mm. Printed capitals. Types: 145 (168) G Greek. 110R (P3) light text types. No hyphen as a rule In use in + after 1488. 80R (P10) bold text tyep + comm. type, with single + separate Qu. In use 1496-1500

This is the 1st dated ed. of Apollinaris Sidonius - letters + poems - Bishop fo Clermont in Auvergne. He was the foremost representative of scholarship in Gaul, in which part of France the interest in Latin literature survived longest. For the real nature of the so-called German conquest his letters are invaluable - He describes his own literary. Tastes. the luxurious life of the rich proprietary class. hunting, music, drinking etc.

Having collaborated with Leonardus Pachel from 1477 onwards Scinzenzeler appears to have settled down to printing on his own account in the course of 1487. His press continued to be active until the Spring of 1500, when it was taken over by Joanne Angelus Scinzenzeler.

Fnc. 4r^0, gros car. rom: Ionnisbaptistae pii elegidion amatorium // 32 distiques: Frondiferum - - explicit au V^3: Vulnera cui - dedit. Finc 5, signs a, r^0 letters de Sidoine Aollinaire

Sidonius was born at Lyons + died at Clermont. He witnessed the fall of the Roman Empire in the West + is our principal authority for many of the events of its last years. Sidonis married the daughter of Emperor Avitus in 452. He was dected Bishop of Clermont in 469 (against his hishes), at which time he abandoned poetry. - The 2nd + last 15th C. printing (1st printed in Utrecht not after 1474 + the only ed. to contain Pio's extensive commentary. In his preface Giambattista Piostates that the publisher intended to print 1000 copies of this work (folio 3V lines 19/20) Giambattista Pio (c 1460-1540) was a major figure among the humanists at Bologna. Serra Zanetti, "L'Arte, della Stampa in in Bologna" )p. 30) describes Pio as, "tireless, enterprising endowed with eclectic culture a passionate student of post-classical Latin." Pio's extensive commentaries + introduction were not included in his collected Annotationes (Bologna, 1505) HEHL #66819 no rub. my leaf - folio 4. (A4 (of 4) volume begins a^1 (of 6) with Sidonius Constantio suo salutem. letters of Sidonis - 9 books, ends on m^5 (of 8) with Sidonis firmino suo salutem.

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Thucydides (460-455-c399 B.C.) Historia belli Peloponnesiaci f^0 [Treviso: Johannes (Rubeus) Vercellensis, 1483?] Laurentius Valla, tr. Bartho) omaeus Parthenius ed. Ref: Goff T-359 HC 15511 Polain 3782 Pr 6500 BMC VI 896 Haebler, Plate 47, Type 2. Copy: HEHL, LC, PML, UCalBL, BPubL

a-r^8. 136 leaves, the 1st + last blank. 6^a, 46-7 lines 189x125mm. Capital spaces. the innermost pages of several quires are short. The 1st edition. Types: 82 R (P2) small text type with single longtailed Qu, dot of i to right of shaft; single sloping hyphen. In use throughout Rubeus's career from 1482 onwards.

1st ed. of Valla's Latin translation, the only 15th C. ed. of Thucydides. The preface is addressed to Pope Nicolas V Finely printed by the first press of Joh. Rubeus from which only 9 books were issued. One of the great classics of historiography. The Greek text did not appear until 1502. Although this printer seems to have been connected with book production at Treviso as early as Aug. 1480, his name does no occur in an authentically Trevisan colophon until 1482, the year in which he also signed a book with Venetian imprint. He was still at work in Treviso in 1485 but had established himeslf permanently at Venice by 1486.

Fnc. 134, r^0 vie de Thucydide: EX - V^0 Alimu // sius antro?

-Thucydides is credited with making objectivity + the critical analysis of evidence the two fundamental tools of historical writing. More accurately, his true genius lay in the subtle manipulation of data into evidence in support of his arguments under the guise of objectivity, a teaching technique popular among his intellectual contemporaries in 5th C. Athens, the Sophists, + subsequently culminating in the creation of the legal profession. - Thucydides was the 1st scientific historian. The standards + methods he adopted as a contemporary observer have never been bettered. HEHL #43629 no rub. many marginalia - my leaf marked folio 130; r^6 (of 7) book ends on r^7 E register. the history itself ends on r^5.

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Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus (c. 240- C. 320) Opera. f^0 (median) Venice: Vicentius Benalius, 22 March 1493 See #427 Joannes Andreae, bishop fo Aleria ed. With added works. Ref: Goff L-11, HC. 9816 Polain 2423. Pr. 5376 BMC V 525 Oates 2091 IGI 5628. Haebler, Plate 105 Type 3 Copy: HEHL, LC, PML, Harv CL

A^8; ab^8 c d^6 e^8 f-m^6 n^8 op^6 q-t^8,6 v^6 140 leaves, the 1st + last blank. 11^a 45 lines + headline, 240 (248)x150 (with marginali 167)mm. Types: 107R (P3) text type with seperate Q + S

GK. Capital spaces - leaning to right. Here found only in the Lactanius. Capital spaces with guide letters. Reprinted from Theodorus de Ragazonibus's 1490 ed.

Only 6/5 books are known to have been issued by Vicentius Benalius - May 1492 to April 1489.

DE OPIFICIO DEI Ca xxi DE PHOENICE Fnc. 132 (t^9), r^0 line 45 (de opificio Dei) explicit Fnc 132, V^0 poeme sur le phenix, impr. sur 2 col.; col 1; Lactatii Firmiani de phoenice carmina.

The works of Lactantius, the 'Christian Cicero", was one of the most widely read books in 15th C. Italy. De opificio dei presents an argument from design to demonstrate God's providence. Lactantius had little to say of Christian doctrine + institutions. He is of more value as a stylist than a theologian. His style is the most classical among early Christian Latin authors.