Farfel Notebook 07: Leaves 469-498

480 Dawson's Los Angeles Feb. '98 $5.00 Nicolaus de Lyra (ca 1279-1349) See #21 Postilla super totam Bibliam (ed. by Joannes Andreae, Bishop of Aleria) Rome: Conradus Sweynheym + Arnoldus Pannartz I) 18 Nov. 1471 - 26 May 1472 f0

Ref: Goff N-131 HC 10363 Polain (B) 2821 Uates 1364 Pr 3321-25 BMC IV, 14 Copy HEHL Capital spaces. - Vol. I 452 leaves, the last blank; 6a: 46 lines 262x168-70mm II 452 " , first + last blank III 402 " , the first two + last two blank IV 234 " V 292 " Type: 115 R - large text type. Single Qu, right shank of A leaning on left. M with shtraight shanks.

HEHL #105120 my leaf p1 (of 10) in VOl. I1 - Exodus Exo rub. in red CXXIII - folio number Vol. I1 rub in red + blue blue V I dens Ca. CCCII dull blue

5 vol. bound in 8 Genescos folio IIII Vol I1+2 Paralypomino sedus Exhodi " LXXVI folio CCCCXXVL Leuitici " CXXXV 46 lines, I.1+2, 451 leaves (one of which is blank).

481 Dawson's Los Angeles Feb. '98 $20.00 See #238 Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Pliny, the Elder) (23-79) Historia naturalis (Italian) Tr: Christophorus Landinus) marked 123 Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476. f0, Royal. Ref: Goff P-801 H. 13105 Oates 1640 Pr 4099 BMCV 176 Copy: HEHL (2, 1 vell), PML (vell) Harv CL, U Kan L

a-x10 yz A-C8 D-N10p10 Q8 RS10T8V10 415 leaves the 1st + last blank. 3a: 50 lines. 278x158mm Types: 115 (111) R; 115 Gk Capital spaces with guide letters -Large text type. Single Qu; medium capitals, rather broad H, the shanks of N are not quite vertical, S is irregularly drawn, single sloping hyphen. Up to 1474 the measurement of 20 lines varies from over 115 to just under 113mm - in and after 1475 it is reduced to 111-112mm. The type was used exclusively until 1473 + occasionally afterwards. 115 G k - lower case only. 1st used in 1471 + regularly used afterwards. Pliny - one of the few Romans who wrote on science. in the 1st book he acknowledges about 500 authors as sources of his information. Total, 36 books. Together with Vitruvius' De architectura, Pliny's work is one of the few extant testimonies to the flowering of art criticism + art historical study in the Roman period.

HEHL #94919 not rub. my leaf CAP. XXIIII, XXV, XXVI n4 (of 10) from Vol. I Libro. X. Della. Historia. Natu Rale. Di Caio. Plinio. Secondo. Cap. I - LXXV (Del Souno Deglani mali) - vellum copy 2 vol. book X, begins m10 (of 10), ends o3 (of 10). Cap XXII (before Oche. Cap XXVII (after) Selevcide. XXVIII " Ibi. (Ibis) - First Italian edition. Book 10 - The Natural History of Binds. Pliny - an encyclopedia of all the knowledge of the ancient world. He was a compiler rather than an origional thinker - 37 books - was the basis of Isidore's Etymologiae + such medieval encyclopedias as the Speculum Majus + the Catholicon. - "Jenson's roman Types have been the accepted models for roman letters ever since he made them, + repreatedly copied in our own day" - Updike Cap. XXIIII Grv. cicogna. cecero. ceceri. cotvrnici. coturnice. (Crane, Stork Swan, Quai)) Vccelli uccelli. Forestieri (Binds, foreign strange) Cap. XXV Rondine. Merle. Tondi (Swallow, Blackbird, Thrush) Cap XXVI Miracoli. Dvccelli (Miracle, Marvel ?)

First ed. in any modern language of the greatest general scientific, encyclopedic work of antiquity which profoundly affected men's thought for 1500 years or more. The date of this translation by the leading Florentine humanist Landino (1424-1492) doesn't seem to be widely known, but it must have been between 1458, when Ferdinand assumed the throne, + the date of this volume.

482 Dawson's Los Angeles Feb. '98 d. 25.00 Gratianus Decretum (with a gloss) - Bartholomazi Brixiensis. See #421 Venice: Baptista de Tortis, 1485-6. f0 Ref: GW 11369 H. 7902 Pell 5323 BMC V 324 Copy: Munchen SB, Stockholm KglB, Solothurn ZB

a-z Z24 A-T8 V6. 366 leaves, 1st + last blank 2-365 so numbered. 2 col. 6a. 821. of gloss enclosing the text, + headline. 332 (340) x 216 mm. Types: 130 G., headlines from 88a; 114R, 78R (few capitals only), earlier headlines; 92 Ga; 81 Ga. - capital spaces + red printed Lombards. -Paragraph marks, initials + entire lines of text printed in red. 114R text type. In use in 1485+6. Separate Q with short curly tail + often flattened on top. 78R commentary type. In use 1481-86; 1490 92Ga law text type. Squat L with thick sirif to left Straight tailed 9 In use in 1484, 85, 1487-90. 81GA law gloss type. PRSX plain but the other majuscules double limbed, double crossed or both. Used in 1484+85. Pell 5323 impr. rouge et noire. 2 col 72 ll. (texte). 83ll. (commentaire)