farfel_n08_032_512

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Foliophiles
Santa Fe, NM.
Jan. '00
$55 (22)

See #27

Johannes Melber - Lexicographer from Gerolzhofen - lived about 1483.
Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus.
Strassburg: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de
Quedlinburg (Georg Husner), about 1488-90. 4°
Ref: Goff M-466 HC 11031 Pr 670 BMC I 141

Copy: LC, NYPL
my leaf is n3. (of 8)
a-e8fg6h-n8op6q-s8tv6x-z8. 172 leaves.
c printed headlines 3a: 36 lines. 143 x 91 mm.
Types: 160, title, headlines + c.; 80 text.
Spaces left for capitals, most c guide letters.

Types 160-title + headline type, often leaded to 165, 170, 180 mm
Used throughout
Type 80 - smaller text type used from the later months
of 1488 onwards. The type 80 was used c minute
variations by many other printers. E c the center
stroke filed down for a C and absence of paragraph
marks. - a preachers guide.
Popular Latin-Germany dictionary.
HEHL #101413 - Goff M-471 about 1499 In this ed. my leaf is o3 (of 8).
L begins on n8 (of 8) + ends on o5 - total of 6 leaves.
HEHL #92502 - Goff M-469 1497? - my leaf is o3 (of 8).
L begins on n8 + ends on o5.

water mark present -- P c a fleuron or cross at the top.
- The period of activity of the printer known as the "Printer of the
1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg", 1481-92 (c after additional books
printed between 1496 + 1502) fits largely between that of
the 2 presses of Georg Husner, datable to 1473-1481 +
1495-1505.