Farfel Notebook 06: Leaves 397-468

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Fuchs, Leonhard. (1505-1560) De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes See #130 Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542 folio [28] 896 pp[2] Ref: Nissen 658. Pritzel 3138. Adams. F1099 Horblitt 35 b. Plesch #272 pp. 231-2. Durling 1675. Copy: Stanford (Barchus QK 41 F7f) not colored. 511 woodcuts of plants, most full page.

1996 Copy 22,500 L De Adianto Cap XXVIII p. 81+2 Adiantum Frawenhari (G5) of 6 (a kind of fern- maiden hair) frauenhaar (maiden hair) (Adiantum, Capillus Veneris) See - #372 Michael Isingrin - 1556 - Gerogius Agricola - De re metallica.

Roman type (preface in italic), German plant names in Gothic type, printer's woodcut device on title, + verso of final leaf, full page portrait of the author, 509 full-page botanical woodcuts + 3 smaller woodcuts in the text, by Veit Rudolph Spackle after Heinrich Fullmaurer + Albrecht Meyer, 3 small woodcut self portraits of these artists. Numerous 6 line + smaller historical white-on-black woodcut initials.

p. 77-78 De Arcevtho. Cap XXVI G3 Ivniperus minor. Wectholder p. 79-80 De Alcea. Cap XXVII G4 Sigmanskraut p. 83-84 De Vite Vinifora Cap XXIX G6 Weinreb

Dioscorides - Book IV #136 Adianton (Adientum Capillus - Veneris) - Herbals were intended as guides in the preparation of drugs rather than as works of botany for its own sake. But with the Renaissance, pictures of plants drawn from nature began to appear in them, long agter plants had begun to be drawn + colored accurately by artists. All these herbals are discursive + full of surprising folklore, + they paved the way for modern natural history when the critical spirit of scientific revolution began to affect their readers

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Brant, Sebastian. (1457- 21 May 1521) See #32 for antother leaf. Stultifera navis (Latin) Tr: Jacobus Locher "Philomusus." (Additions by Thomas Beccadelli), folio XCV Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 March 1498. 4o Ref: Goff B-1091 GW 5062 H. 3751 Proctor 7778 Pell 2823 Polain (B) 4092 Copy: NYPL, BMaur CL, Harv CL PML, Colmar.

164 Bl. SIg: a8-s8. f4-y4. I-FOLIO CXLIIII (4) FOLIO CXLV - FOLIO CLIX(I): 30 lines. (3 repeats)

Types I 109a text (3) 77 marginal references (4) 220 117 woodcuts Marginalien title + headings 109a - broad Roman text type, with flat G + the tail of Q in Qu reaching only to below the left upright of u - in use throughout 77 - small Roman type. in use 1494-8 Side strokes of A + V at different angles 220 Large upright Gothic type. in use in 1497-9.

Ship of Fools - 36 ed were published between 1494+1513.

XCV from Mortis neglectus (of fooles that despise death, making no provision therefore.) before - Non per seuerare in bono after - Contrene = redeum my leaf m7 (of 8) in this ed. Aug 1, 1497 HEHL (#85699) GW> 5061 Folio I - CLIX

J. Locher - friend + pupil of S. Brant.

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Biblia Germanica [For J. Rinmann]. Augsburg: Silvan Ormar, 1518 Jan. 27, Feb 12. f0 See #216 Ref: Muther (972) p. 5. BMC (1965) XVII Col. 250, Geisberg plate #21 Cop: BM imperfect Vol 2 only, Yale Proctor 10763 Panzer Anoralem I: p. 410 #888

801 leaves. 2 col. 45 lines, 6 1/4 x 9 3/4" Black Letter 14th German Bible.

O.T./ Apocrypha {Das buch Thobie Judith

This Bible (1518) appeared only a few months after Luther (Oct. 1517) had published his (95) theses. But it belonged to the series of editions of the German tranls. made in about 1350 + 1st printed by Mentelin at Strassburg in 1466. This transl. was not made from the original languages, but only from the Vulgate, + was moreover - despite several revisions, esp. in 1475 + 1483 - clumsy in its linguistic form + partly incomprehensible. Hence it answered neither of Luther's 2 requirements for such a translation, that it should be based on the original texts + should use a German comprehensible to all.

The apocryphal books are those which were not included in the Hebrew canon of Scripture, but were accepted by Hellenistic Jews + taken over by the early Church as part of the Septuagent. In Greek + Latin Bibles they were mostly interspersed among the canonical books. Protestant practive, when it does not omit them altogether, has been to put them as a separate block between the Old + New Testaments. (Luther + Zurich) Coverdale has the Apocrypha "in bloc" between the Testaments, except Baruch which he places after Jeremiah Types 3 + rounded canon = Otmar, J. 26 7 - large round = Otmar, J. 14 10 - large text schwabacher = Otmar, J. 17

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Alexander Magnus (356-323 B.C.) King of Macedon. Historia Alexandri Magni [German] Adapted by Johann Hartleib. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 8 June 1478 f0 (4.) Ref: Goff A-404 h. 786 Pell 451 IGI 297 GW 885 Reichling 375 Muther 79 Schr 3133 Cop: LC (R) Brussel BR, Gottingen UB Murchen SB Paris BN, Wien N.B. Zurich 156 leaves a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35 lines.. Type:2 BI. 85 Init: a, e, k 29 woodcuts 2nd edition of this work. in German my leaf 4 d, woodcut capitals D, I, J.

Schr 3133 - Alexander der Grosse. Frontispice: Alexander tourne vers la droite. Deux reglettes 191:135 - Les autres 28 g. s. b. sont identique a celles du Bamler 1473 Hains 785 sauf 2.

A. Sorg was a prolific printer, + some 180 books from his press are recorded between 1475 + 1493. A high proportion fo these are in German, + in sum they give considerable insight into the interests of the literate classes of the German states. Most of these vernacular books are also illustrated.

Muther 79 THe Histori des grossen Alexanders which was 1st printed by Barnler was reprinted 4 times by Sorg in 1478, 80, 83 + 86. The title page illust. (190x132) is different form that in the Bamler ed. The rest of the illust. (80x115) are the same is those in Bamler, with some using Bamler's woodcuts + some being copied onto wood anew.

4th ed. GW 886 H. 788 Goff A-405 5 June 1480. 2o 156 leaves, a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35l. Type 2. Init: a, e 28 woodcuts Copy: Gottingen UB (incomplete). Muchen SB, Zurich ZB. Cleveland Public Lib, Cleveland, Ohio. 15 Jan. 1483. 4o 156 leaves, a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35;. type 2, 3 Init: a, e, k. 28 woodcuts Copy: Muchen SB (incomplete. Wein (Liecht). BM 5th ed. GW 887 H. 789 Goff A-406 BMC II 350 attributed by BM to Eusebius. f0. 33 lines (198x124mm.) Types: 140 headings + colophon - title type, used continuously from 1481, 2 forms of E. 118 (120) text. [inserted] large German text type introduced 1478. [end inserted] Capitals (Ib(5), 2). with woodcuts.

2 forms of A, D + E are common. GW 887a 1486.2^0 Nicht nacht weisbar. Schreiber 3137

The Alexander story perhaps the most popular Greek romance, is an enlarged + interpolated version (Goff A-398) of the mid 10th C. Latin translation of Leo Archi presbyter of Naples his patron Duke John III who became aquainted with the Greek source on an embassy to Constantinople. The tale of Alexander the Great, his Life, heroic deeds, adventures + death became one of the most popular story books of the Middle Ages. As the subject of epics in verse + prose, it appears in all European literatures.