Farfel Notebook 06: Leaves 397-468

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Lucretius Carus, Titus. (99 BC - 55 BC) De rerum hatura. (On the Nature of Things) Venice: Aldus Pius Menutius, Jan. 1515. 8 0 Ref: Renouard 74.11 Adams L - 1651 S.T.C. Italian 397 UCLA 112 + 12a Fletcher 123-125. Cop: HEHL, BM (12846)

[8] ff. (including last blank), 125 ff., [3] ff (including penultimate blank); altogether 136 leaves, Italic letter. Aldine device on title page + on verso of last leaf.

Second Aldine ed. and the only one in pocket size to be issued by the press. The last book to be published before the death of Aldus the Elder in Feb. 1515. This new ed. prepared by Andrea Navagero, is much more accurate than the very rare 1500 one which had been prepared by Girdamo Avanzio.

HEHL (131685) my leaf p2 (of 8). folio 114. Book 6. - folio 104 - 125. Total - libro sexto. No rub. gilt edge 125 folio, plus eriata pelage t pelagus 114 page 27 lines pelagius - "belonging to the ser" Index De terrae motu 113 . 2 Cur tot aquis influentibus mare maius non fiat 114. 15 De Aetnae ignibus 114.47 De Nili incremento 115.60

Lib VI 114 ruled in red p2

The number of editions of Lucretius printed in the 15th C is small in comparison with other classical aurthors of equal fame. The printers did not care to be assoc. in the minds of their patrons with materialism atheism + the epicurean point of view

Book I, II, III IV V VI On the Nature of Things I. Matter + Space Atoms + the Void, with criticism of other theories II. Properties of Atoms The Soul is material + subject to death III. Mind + Spirit The senses IV Psychology of Sensation + Sex Origin of the World, + growth of human society V Evolution fo the world + society Celestial Phenomena; natural wonders; the plague at Athens. VI Natural Phenomena

Lucretius' famous philosophical poem in which the physical theory of Epicurus is expounded, setting out in detail the atomic view of the universe.

Early in March 1505 Aldo Mannzio married Maria, daughter of the printer Andrea Torresand of Asola - 5 children, one of whom. Paolo succeeded to his father's business. In 1512 Manuzio returned to Venice for good + from this time until his death on Feb. 6, 1515 he issued a furhter 31 books.

Andrea Navagero, one of the young poets from the Paduan circle was now temporarily set on a career of a professional scholar: working in the closest collusion with Aldus on the texts of Cicero, Quintilian, Lucretius, Virgil + Ovid, he emerged as one of the ablest Latin editors of his time, + as librarian of the Marciana, played a great part in the re-organization of the long neglected manuscripts

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Albertus Magnus. (1193?-1288 Koln) De animalibus. (probable date of composition 1258-62.) Mantua: Paulus de Butzbach, 12 Jan. 1479 f0 Ref: Goff A-224 HC (add) 546 Klebs 14.2 Pell 340 Oates 2584 IGI 162 Pr 6895, BMC VII, 931 GW 588 Cop: HEHL (-) New L, Corn UL, NY Ac Med L, YUL Breslau UB, Hamberg SB. Lyon Bville, Peris BN, Trier St B 306 leaves, 5 blank. 2 col, 7a: 621. 279x166mm Type: 90 G. Captial spaces, a few with guide letters, wither 310 or 465 copies wer apparently struck off. text type with ornate capitals, mostly double shanked and /or double crossed. Found only in the 1479 A. Magnus.

Paulus de Butzbach - began to print with his brother in 1471. - The earliest book referable to Paulus after he parted company with his brother Georgius another Versor signed by him on 27 Nov. 1473 + the signed but undated Aquinas, Summa. His next signed work belongs to 1475 + one each of the 4 following yrs., the last being the Lyre, Morelia of 29 April, 1481. His earliest type can certainly be considered an archetype.

HEHL (104528) not rub. my leaf S5 (of 8) Total liber XXV9 (25) liber aialium XXJ9 qui de pfectis 7. impfectis 7 ca pfectiois 7 impfectois. Caruius primus thactus e de gradibus pfectos 7 im pfecto4 animaliu beginis S1 Total of 9 Cap. ends S7

Albert was the mostwidely read man of his time, + he may be the western world's greatest purveyor of knowledge that was not his own. He was the 1st to see the great value for theology of the Greco-Arabian science + philosophy + he took as his aim, to make the whole of his knowledge, + especially the works of Aristotle, available to the West. His work embraces the entire spectrum of [crossed out] (descriptions of some fabulous creatures) [end crossed out] of learning. but his contributions to the sciences are particularly important. The De animalibus includes descriptions of some fabulous creatures, but it also rejects many popular myths + is noteworthy for its sections on reproduction + embryilogy.

Printing + the Mind of Man - A. Magnus was the most learned scholar of his age, the 'Doctor Universalis' of the Middle Ages he was the most important observer of nature that he Middle Ages had yet produced, the greatest naturalist since Pliny. He wrote in the form of paraphrases of Aristotle, into which he interpolated his personal observations of naturalist + scientific phenomena, + he had at least a conception of the importance of experimentalism.

Paulus de Butzback began to print in 1471 together with his brother Georg under the patronage of Petrus Adam de Michaelibus. In 1473 Paulus began to print for himself + carried on his business till 1481. His later productions were for the most part theological legal or philosophical When he ceased printing he continued in Mantova at least until 1491 as a bookseller.

- A. Magnus - His zoology, De Animalbus, based on that of Aristotle, replaced the quaint volume, the Physiologus.

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Hortus Sanitatis, germanice. Gart der Gesundheit. f0 1st part: Herbarg oder Kruterbuck Strassburg: Johann Pruss - der Altere, 1507 1480-1510 20 August 2nd part: Hortus sanitatis. (translated into German): Gart der gesuntheit (zu Latin Ortis sanitatis) Strassburg: Johann Pruss, 1509 22 Mai. p. 155+6 Ref: Choulant 21 p. 66 Becher 33 Kristeller 61 + 64 Panzer #590, 650 Pritzel 10831 Schmidt III 63, 72 Nissen 2282, 2370 Cop: Part I NYPL, leaf only Brown (Providence R.I.), Univ. of Ill., Med. Science Lib, Chicago Part II BM Strassbourg, Cambridge BU. Wellcome #3322 part 1 only - colored.

2nd Black letter, 173 (4) leaves. With 3 large woodcuts + more than 500 smaller cuts of animals, fishes, birds + precious stones. (538 small woodcuts + 3 large ones) The 1st part is a reprint of the German "Gart der Desundheit". The 2nd part is the 1st German translation of the Latin Hortus sanitatis. The large woodcuts + the greater part of the smaller cuts are derived from Pruss' 15th C. ed. of the Latin Hortus. 1st - Black letter. 2 col. 204 leaves. (452 woodcuts) 6ll. ff 182 [ie 180], 16[18]ll. f0 sig a-z, A-H, Aa-Dd

Vod den Colgen Das XCIIII Capitel Palumbus / ein blochduss, - (wood pigeon, ring dove) Das CXV Capitel Plates vn pluuialis rainy. (spoonbill) Das XCVI Capitel Papiliones / seirt kleyne mucklin. - (gnat) Das XCVIII Capitel Pellicarus - (pelican) Das XCVII Capitel Perdix / ein rephun (rebhuhn) - (partridge)

Muther The woodcuts in the 2nd part are taken without change from the earlier ed of the larger Hortus. The text cuts of the 1st part are not found in the usual ed. of the small Hortus, but are newly cut + are better + somewhat larger. J. Pruss 1480-1510