Farfel Notebook 09: Leaves 572-618

Vol. I

HEHL 88170#

initials rubricated in various colors c designs my leaf xxvi Dominica prima post p^10 (of 10) octavas Ephie. begins p^5 (of 10) ends q^2 (of 8)

Vol. I begins c Serino primus de adventu dm nostri ihu xpi. ends - lxviij Sermo. dnice post ascensionem.

Vol. II subricated only in red. (Pars estivalis) begins In dic sacto penth Saermo ./1 --> penthecostes ends total lxiiij Sermo.

Epiphany - the day celebrating the arrival of the magi at the site of Christ's birth.

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Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521) Nauenschiff. English + Latin (Stultifera nauis)

See #32 416 537 202 436

London: Richard Pynson, 1509 (14 Dec.) f^o Ref: S.T.C. 3545, G.B. [inserted] Gratshorn[end inserted] 300. Copy: HEHL, Folger, NYPL, Yale, P. Morgan Bodlevan, B.M.

Hart, James David. "An Original Leaf..."

Leaf book

San Francisco: Printed for David Mages by the Grabhorn Press, 1938. Small folio. 12 1/4 x 9. 32 pp. one of 115 copies containing an illustrated leaf of a total edition of 260 copies Large red opening initial + 15 hand colored marginal figures based on woodcuts in the Pynson ed. FOLIVM Superbia CLXXXXV Of elcuate pryde/and bostynge. - marked 201 in pencil. I^6 (of 6)

283 leaves [4] CCLXXIIII (ie CCLXXIX) leaves. t^4 a^8 b-p^6 q^7 r-z^6 +^6 A-Y^6. Gothic type 7 (95mm) Alexander Barclay, 1475?-1552 Jacob Locher, 1471-1528.

Pynson copied his illustrations from those accompanying Pierre Reivieres French translation, printed in Paris, 1497 (Goff B-1094). The Parisian cuts in turn are based on those of the Basel editio princepa (Goff B-1080) of which many were probably made or designed by Albrecht Duer. All but 3 of the woodcuts in the John Cawood 1570 ed. are printed from Pynson's

See #202

blocks. According to Binns, Pynson introduced Roman type into England in 1509. In this ed. of the Stultifera Navis he used a Roman typeface for the Latin but gothic black letter for the English.

"If popularity but taken as the measure of success in literary effort, das Naurenschiff must be considered one of the most successful books recorded in the whole history of literature" An accessible study of human frailties, Ship of Fools was the 1st printed book to uncorporate conteporary wents + living persons in its hauative. First published in 1494 the work appeared in 1 Latin, 3 French, 1 Dutch, 1 Low German + and an English version within 15 yrs. What made the 1509 version popular in England was Barclay's shrewd decision to adapt the material to English life. Though his version was not a literal translation, the original's premise was retained + virtually every folly + vice of the age in personified. There are 113 sections in the work, most of them devoted to a different class of fool.

Gnashorn Press--1933-40. San Francisco, CA. 642 Commercial St. Edward Hodnett - English Woodcuts 1480-1535 p. 385 #1907 (series #1824 to 1932)

A woman holding a minor. A grid on a fire 110x708mm.

HEHL #55359

begins CLXXXXIIII c Superbie ostentatio followed by of eleuate pryde/and bostynge CLXXXXV ends CLXXXXVII c An exclamacion ayenet pryde

before - Of children that dysdayne to honoure and worshyp theyr parentis fo. clxxxx

Of clateryhge and bayne langage vsyd of prestsand clerk in y Quere fo. clxxxxii

after of usures and Okeres fo. clxxxxvii Of the vayne hope that Foles hath to succede to herytage possession and ryches

Inferior to Barclay in Henry Watson's competitive English prose version, The Shyppe of Fooles (Wynkyn de Worde, London 1509, of which only a single copy, in Paris is now extant. A 2nd ed. now almost as rare as the 1st appeared in 1517. Watson's work seems to be a literal translation of the 2nd, not the 1st, ed. of Drouyn's French prose version. Henry Watson was an apprentice to Wynkyn de Worde + The Ship of Fools was his 1st translation. He undertook the work at the request of Margaret, countess of Richmond, the king's grandmother. This must have been after April 21, 1509 + the finished book was published on July 6.

There are, including the preliminary one, 118 woodcuts in number. The word folium is on the left hand page + the number in Roman capitals on the right throughout the book; the last is cclxxiiii. Including the dedication + table (4 folios) there are 283 folios. The numbering is a model of irregularity.

Each illust. has a border piece on either side. The 1st two are not unlike those used by Caxton in The Fifteen Oes. Throughout the remainder of the book only 4 blocks were used + two of these were alike, the design representing a series of 1/2 fleur-de-lis alternating c halves of the sign used by heralds for the tincture of ermine. The other two were a naked figure in the midst of flowers + foliage c binds in their midst.

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Hieronymus (St. Jerome) pseudo.

See #100 #161 #17 #236 #476 #592

Vitas patrum [English] The lyff of the faders. Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde [before 21 Aug. 1495] William Caxton, translator Ref: Goff H-213 C. 2961 Duff 235 Oates 4120 Pr 9697 STC 14507 Cop: HEHL, Folg SL, LC, NYPL, PML, YUL

prima pars lxxv k iii (of 8) Saynt Eufrosyne

Aa^8, a-o^8 p^6 a-x^8 y^10 z aa-tt^8 vv-xx^6. 356 leaves 2 columns: 40, 41 lines. With head-lines + foliation Types: 2 (114mm) + 4 (95mm)

The Vitas patrum is not a single work of St. Jeromis but an asemblage of lives of the early desert + aunts by Rufinus + others, stating c Jeromis lives of St. Paul the Hermit, Hilarion + Malchus. The lyfe of sayne Eufrosyne/and begynnyth in Latin C fuit vin. et cetera Capl'm xliiii

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Pruins pars Total Capl'm --> clxv begins on folio lxxiii ki (of 8) ends on folio lxxvi k4 (of 8) begins folio 1 a^1 (of 8) ends folio clxxv y^10 (of 10) Secunda pars beings folio clxxvi ends folio cccxvi Tercia pars begins folio cccxvii ends folio cccxxx Quarto pars begins folio cccxxxi ends folio cccxxxvi Quinta pars begins folio cccxxxvii ends folio cccxlvii