Farfel Notebook 09: Leaves 572-618

#233 Aurora P. Riga 9/03 selling for $2000 England (oxford?) ca 1210? 8^o puzzle initials - are inked to appear as if made up of colored "pieces" - like a jigsaw puzzle - they are distinctly, if not uniquely a feature of English + French MSS of the 13th C.

written in a small compact Gothic textura used in the 13th C - which script predates the development of cursive book hands later used for the same purpose.

Manu scriptus -- written by hand 2 distinct types of worship service exist in Catholic tradition Mass - missal - gradual Divine Office - breviary - antiphonary parchment -- sheep or goat skin vellum --> parchment made from calf skin

Chaucer at the Huntington S.T.C. 2nd ed. 5068 1532 #60776 matches my #615 69 1542 #84670

70 1542i #99596 Reynes 72 1550? #99584 R. Kele 73 1550? #99598 T. Petit 74 1550? #99597 R. Toye all match my #48

75 1561 #84667 Kyngston, Wight 76 1561 #99595 Kyngston, Wight both match my #15

77 1598 #84666 Bishop 78 1598 #99592 B. Norton both match my #616

80 1602 #99593

#581 Stanford Red N 8023 S894 J. Strachan Early Bible Illustrations

Italian Bible (Oct 15, 1490) Goff B644 GW 4317. f^o Venice: Giovanni Ragazzo for Lucantonio Giunta.

an ed. of Malermi's bible. 386 cuts. 210 O.T. + 176 N.T. 110 are based on the Cologne Bible, 40 on Kobergu's ed. of Lyra + the rest are either original or from other sources (4.5 x 7cm)

this was the bible most fully copied + thus became the source of a large number of the illustrations for bibles printed in the 1st half of the 16th C in Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands + eventually England. Being taken from the Vulgate the bible has a preface by Jerome.

Di Giunta's Italian bible went through more than 10 ed. all similarly illustrated in the next 40 years. (folio ed. of Matermi's bible appeared at Venice 1502, 1507 (2), 1515, 1517 (2). 1525, 1535 etc) but it was not only vernacular bibles that adopted the practice of woodcut illustration.

In 1498 S. Bevilagua of Venice brought out a Latin bible c 2 title pages + 71 illustrations taken from di Giunta's Italian one. Di Giunta published further ed., a large 4^o using 115 of the same set of illustrations in 1511 (BMC 3021. C.I.)

Meanwhile, a large development of printing took place in Lyons. In 1512 J. Sacon of Lyons printed for A. Koberger, a folio Vulgatec many small cuts taken from di Giunta's Vulgate of 1511. They were carefully copied + recut. Sacon's Vulgate went through 8 ed. between 1512 + 1522. At first the pictures were copies from di Giunta's 4^o of 1511 exactly the same size. They did not occupy the whole breath of the column of Secon's folios + were set in ornamental borders. For Sacon's

1518 ed. (D+M 6100a, Cop. 169) many of them were redrawn on a larger scale + this operation was completed for the ed. of 1519 (D.+M. 60016, cop. 176)

In 1663 soon after Charles II was proclaimed king, the 3rd folio was published by Philip

See #260 #393

Chetwinde. Soon after publication, Chatwinde added to the volume the doubtful play. [?Peiclea?] and the falsely attributed plays (6) + issued it c another title page dated 1664 - the 100th anniversary of Shakespeare's [crossed out] death [end crossed out] birth.