farfel_n09_013_577

577

Griffon's
St. Petersburg, FL.
Nov. '02
$75

Augustinus, Aurelius (354-430)
De civitate dei (Comm: Thomas Waleys and
Nicolaus Trivet)

See # 241

Frieburg in Briesgau: [Kilianus Piscator
(Fischer)] 1491. A^3 f^o marked folio 143
Ref: Goff A-1246 HC 2068 Poll 1562 Polain 368
Oates 1336 Pr 3214 BMC III 695 GW 2890
Copy: HEHL; Folg SL, LC, YUL, Freiburg i. Br. UB
Lyson B [?Man?], Oxford Body. German Haebler #47
a^8 b-x^6 y^8 z A-T^6 256 leaves. 2 columns. Text
enclosed in commentary II^9: 551: of text flanked
by 6 3/4 lines of commentary, + headline. 229 (240)
x 143 mm. excluding marginalia. Capital spaces
c guide letters.
Types: 180, title, headlines (book numbers)
(P^1) Gothic title + heading type of ordinary character
Dr. Haebleis M^60
83-text, marginalia - Gothic. Double hyphens
(P^2) almost everywhere
71-commentary + tabula - small plain Gothic text
(P^3) type. Small wrong-fount crossed V from 65
occasionally occurs.
The 1st date explicitly connected c this printer is
23 Aug 1492 on which day a contract was signed between
Wolff Lachner + Kilian Fischer at Freiburg to print
for Lachner. He was certainly in Basel in 1497 for in
that year he bought the citizenship + printed there
a Sion Breviary.
The ed. of Ephrem Syrus (Goff-E44) + G. Parisiensis (Goff G-714)
were the 1st 2 books printed by the prototypographer
of Freiburg, Fischer who settled in Freiburg in 1492 +
removed his business to Basel in the mid 1490's. Only
1 other printer worked at Freiburg during the incunable
period --> Friedrich Reidrer.