Farfel Research Notebooks

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Valerius Maximus, Gaius (fl. c. AD20) (c. 49 B.C.-c. 30 AD) Factorum ac Dictiorum Memorabiluim liber ad Tyberium Caesarem (Facta et dicta memorabilia) c the commentary of Oliverius Arzignanenois Venia: Guilelmus Anima Mia, Tridinensis Latin 12 Aug. 1491 f° Liber I-XI b3 Goff V39 HC 15791 Pr 5114 BMC V p 412 cop HEHL, Yale, Harv. C.L. {of Piancerto + Trino in the Duchy of Montferrat.

244 leaves, 5-244 numbered I-CCXL 64 lines of commentary surrounding the text, + headline, 245 (252) x 150 mm Types 113R.; 78R.; 78 Gk. Marginalia. Woodcut capitals, also spaces, c guide letters Only ed. by this printer. Having first appeared as the partner of Antonello di Burasconi in an Aquinas of 31 May 1485, Anima Mia is found printing alone on 11 Aug. 1486, + so continues until Nov 1491. Subsequent books containing his name date from 1493, 4 + 99.

"Nine books of memorable acts + speeches Deeds + Sayings" of the Romans - by Valerius Maximus, a writer in the reign o fTiberius (14-37 AD) see - Kraus Incurabula #148 -- The work is a collection of anectodes drawn from Roman + Greek history, classified by subject, intended as a stock of illustrative examples to be incorporated into orations or rhetorical exercises. Though much of the material is taken from Cicero + Livy, it includes some stories from the author's own time (1st century AD) + is thus an important original source for the reign of Tiberius. It is the 1st extant example of the unctuous melodramatic style of later Latin prose, + its long career as one of the most used text books of the Middle Ages + Renaissance spread + kept alive this style, both in Latin + the vernacular languages. At least 23 editions appeared before 1501 + Schweiger lists 100 editions which appeared from 1501 to 1600. Numerous translations have also been made.

Book I comprises religion, omens, prodigies Book II social customs Books III-IV virtuous conduct (fortitude, moderation, humanity etc.) Books VII + VIII good fortune, military stratagems, famous law suits, eloquence etc Book IX evil conduct. V. Maximus - the Latin author of a book of historical anecdotes -- was intended for use in schools of rhetoric - the anecdotes are drawn chiefly from Roman history as well as the Greeks. -- Editio Princepa - Strossburg, Johann Mentelin, not after 1470. one of the few classical authors to be first issued by a German press. -- the best existing codex is a ninth Century manuscript of Berne. -- a collection of historical anecdotes intended for the teaching of rhetoric. All that we know of the author's life is that he accompanied Ovid's friend Sextus Pompey to his governorship of Asia about 27AD. Adulation is heaped upon Tiberius throughout, + the violent denunciation of Sejanus in the last book suggests that the work was published soon after Sejanus' fall in 31. The anecdotes for the use of speakers of which the book consists are classified under various moral or philosophical headings (omens, moderation, gratitude, chastity, cruelty + the like) each of these being illustrated from Roman (domestica) + less fully, from foreign (externa) examples. The book's rhetorical artifices, its bombast + its sententiousness illustrate the excesses of the Silver Age. Valerius himself has nothing to say worth hearing. But he knew his market, + his work enjoyed a vogue in antiquity + the Middle Ages. It was twice epitomized, in the 4th + 5th C. Types 113R text type In use in 1490, 1491 78R text _ commentary type. In use 1490, 91, 93 (?) 78GR lower case only. In use 1490, 91. HEHL {no rubrication except 1st letter each book - total of 9 books. (98567) {Prologus {Li. I begins on V my leaf XI b3 ends on XXVIII X misnumbered XI also.

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Tiberius Catius Asconius a Cohaul under Nero. (25 or 26-101)

Silvius Italicus Punica. (Petrus Marsus d. 1512, commentary) Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus 18 May 1492 f° (c iiii) 1991/$2500 Goff S508 HC 14740 BMC V p 439 Latin cop HEHL, Yale.

156 leaves. 5a:61 lines of commentary surrounding the text, + headline, 242 (249) x 166 mm. Types: 105R; 80R woodcut capitals

The 1st known book of Locotellus is the Augustine of 9 Feb 1486/7 printed for O. Scotus, for whom he continued to work almost exclusively till Scotus's death on Christmas Eve, 1498. Subsequently he worked for the heirs of Scotus + others, + his press was active throughout the 1st decade of the 16th C.

Latin epic poet - author of a long epic entitled Punica - an account in hexameter verse to the 2nd war of the Romans against the Cathaginians (218-201 BC) (War of Hannibal) Punica - the longest epic in Latin literature - comprising 17 books + over 12,000 lines - it deals c the 2nd only of the Punic wars - describes all the 6 great battles of the war - there were 2 editiones principes (1471.)

Octavianus Scotus, a citizen of Monza (near Milan) was an enterprising publisher. It has often been doubted whether he even had a printing office of his own, although his name alone as printer is to be found in a great many books. From 1486 certainly Bonetus Locatellus was his printer, + the books which bear Scotus' name alone are to be ascribed to Locatellus -- Bonetus Locatellus is the printer whose name appears most often in Venetian books towards the end of the 15th C, c a total of 144 editions to his credit. He began printing in 1478 + became the printer to the publishing firm of Ottaviano Scotto.

F. Ongania Early Venetian Printing Illustrated Gunst Z156 V46 058f.

Venice - the 2nd city in Italy to receive the printing press was during the 2nd half of the 15th C, the chief + most important emporium of typographical productions. From 1469 (John of Speyer) in which printing was introduced, up to the end of the century, more than 200 presses were at work in the city. Venetian printers brought the paper for their books chiefly from the paper mills of Padua + Treviso.

1) the balance - the most frequent Venetian watermark 2) the bull's head 3) hat / Liber Secundus, begins b7 (of 8), ends d' (of 8), HEHL (104038) → no rubrication, large printed capital at beginning of each book (17 total)

3 wars were ultimately fought between Carthage + Rome, the celebrated Punic wars which covered a span of 119 years The wars began in 264 BC + by 146 BC it was over. Carthage was destroyed + her territory became a Roman province of Africa.

Silius Italicus' Punica tells the story of the 2nd Punic War in its orderly sequence from Hannibal's oath to the battle of Zama. His main source is obviously the 3rd decade of Livy, but the absorbing + exciting account of the prose historian is made tedious + even ludicrous by the poet. The tediousness is due to endless tautology + elaboration + the ludicrousness to the incongruity of applying to familiar historical characters + events every device of the heroic saga, including the physical intervention of gods. -- B. Locatellus was printing for O. Scotus from 1489 to 1500 + used as colophon the cross + circle deivce of the latter.

Type 105R - Text type. In use 1490-1496/7. 80R - Commentary + small text type. Single hyphen. In use in 1490-1496/7. At first single Qu is universal; but in the 1494/5 Boccaccio separate Q with short curled tail appears side by side with the other + in later books predominates.

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(Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni) Picus de Mirandula, Johannes. (1463-1494) Opera f° Venice: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus I. 9 Oct 1498 II. 14 Aug 1498 Latin H6 Goff P634 HC 12993 BMC V p 548 Cop Harv CL, HEHL (2,1-), Columbia

262 leaves. 3a: 44 lines + headline, 245 (251) x 147 (c marginalia 166) mm. Types 111R.; 85G. Woodcut capitals; capital spaces, c guide letters.

First certain date connected c Bernadinus is that of Fracentianus, Quaestiones in Consequentiis Strodi, completed by Christophonus de Bottis (Cremonenois) + Bernadinus on 10 Jan 1494, probably 1494/5 HC 7312. He did not, however, settle down to a regular output until early in 1498 + most of his work belongs to the 16th C. (until 1539) In his beginnings he printed chiefly works of humanistic interest. The humanist Pico was a member of the Platonic Academy of Lorenzo de Medici. He attempted to apply the Kabbalah to explanation of Christian mysteries. His orthodoxy challenged, he successfully defended it in his Apologia. In his latter years, influenced by Savonarola, he planned an ascetic life. -- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus (nephew of Johannes Picus de Mirandula) Italian philosopher + scholar - an exponent of Renaissance Platonism - still admired as a representative of Renaissance learning. Pico's writings - Oratio commentary explaining the doctrines of the neoPlatonic cosmology (1486), 900 theses or conclusions written for the dispute in Rome, the Dignity of Man, Apology, Heptaplus, his metaphysical treatise on The Being + The One, and a treatise on astrology.

Anagnine, E.G. - Pico della Marandola. Bari 1937. Garin, E. - Florence 1937.

Giovani Pico was born into a noble family in Mirandola in 1463. He studied law + philosophy at Bologna, Ferrara +, from 1480-82, Padua. Expert in Greek + Latin, he learned Hebrew + Arabic at Perugia, where he also became interested in the Jewish cabala. By 1486 he had composed the 900 theses which led to charges against his orthodoxy. Pico fled to France to evade capture, but was nevertheless arrested in 1488. He was released owing to the intervention of several Italian princes + he then returned to Florence where he enjoyed the protection of the Medici. There, until his death in 1494, he made a brilliant addition to the learned circle that had gathered around Ficino. Pico composed poems, letters, commentaries + a number of original philosophical tracts. Aside from this 900 theses + the famous Oratio, he is well knwon for Heptaplus + De ente et uno. Pico della Mirandola + his contemporary Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) signify the turn from Aristotle to Plato that characterizes the philosophical outlook of the foremost thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.

Reprinted from the ed. of Benedictus Hectoris, Bologna 1495-6 (Hoin 12992) in which however the Deprecatoria comes after the Epistolae + the preliminary matter to the Diaputationes is prefixed, not appended, to that work. Type 111R light text type, separate 2 in 2 forms, one c longer, the other c shorter dropped tail, irregular wide S, wide e, i dotted lightly + high up, + mostly c long serif, large9. In was 1498-1500. 85G text type low style c double limbed capitals + Dr. Haebler's M88. This type was apparently 1st used in 1496 by De Bottis (Cremonersis) the early partner of Bernardinus + is found in the latter's hands in + after 1498.

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Double Manuscript leaf - Book of Hours Flemish, 15th C. Written in lettre batarde in black ink with many small illuminated initials throughout the text 17 lines to the page. 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches leaf 52 51 leaf Psalm 44 + 23 In Flanders, not only miniature painting + the writing of texts but also the various aspects of book decoration were separate specialties, controlld by their various guilds. The border painters evolved a new type of border. To go c the realistic miniature: a flat broad band, usually of gold, strewn c the most tangible blossoms + insects, or a still life setting in the midst of which, seen as though distantly through an arched window, the miniature was set. Flemish manuscripts came to the forefront towards teh end of the 15th C. at a time when French books were beginning to lose their vitality. Out of the school of Flemish miniaturists arose in the 15th C the group of panel painters that began c the Van Eycks + went on to include Van der Weyden + Memling. ← Kalendars - The dates are reckoned according to the Roman system + preceded usually by the Golden Numbers + the Sunday letters. Holidays of obligation are marked in red. Large capitals KI which stand for Kalendare, the 1st day of the month.

Bâtarde - all letteres have taken on the pointed + slanted appearance for which the script is brown -- heavy shading of the descenders R. Propterea benedixit.... Matins Ps. Celi enauant...(Ps 18) Pater noster... Tercia sexta A. Sicut myna electa... 2nd Nocturn for Tues. and Friday A. Ante thorum A. Specie tua Ps. Domini est tena...(Ps 23) Ps. Eructavit coc meum...(Ps 44) A. Ante thorum nuius virginis... A. Specic tue et pulchritudino.... V. Dif ussa est A. Adiuvabit eam.

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S.T.C. #2064

The English Bible - tranlated by Miles Covendale [inserted] Yorkshieman educated at Cambridge - (1488-1568) [end inserted] published in England by James Nycholson in Southwark in 1537. (Apocalypse fo. cxiij) 8 1/2x 13 5/8

[inserted] 288 x 189mm 602 ff [end inserted]1st edition of the whole English Bible to be printed [inserted] Woodcut John [end inserted] in England. (folio) Blackletter. Copius: NY Public Lib, BM, The Bible 57 lines - New Testament - Revelation 1 --> 3.2 House, London Apocalypse on "Revelation" of St. John the [illegible]; a vision of the Day of Judgement, the destruction of the world, and the establishment of The New Jerusalem. The "Form Horseman" signify Conquest, Slaughter, Dearth and Death.

Copius (USA) New York Public in Lib and General Theological Seminary NYC C. Clair. p. 2. English printers were dependent on centimental supplies for their paper. Apart from the short-lived paper mill of John Tate of Stwenage (1495-8) no paper seems to have been manufactured in England on my substantial scale until John spilman started his mill at Dartford in Kant about 1589.

- Pynson introduced no man Types into England in 1507, and De Worde first [illegible] first [illegible] an italic type in 1524.

[inserted] H.F. made new ed. 1968 z 7771 E H47 A.S. Herbert Z 7771 E5H47 [end inserted]#32 (15) 1537 Biblia 2nd folio edition of Coverdale's Bible Imprinted in South works fn James Nycolson Coverdadis version - the first folio Bible printed in England - while it is not certain whether this or #33 (a quarto) was the earliest just Bible printed in England, this is probably prior since #33 has the words 'set forth with the Kynges most

See also Matthew & Bible - gracious licence' on the title page. Summaries are removed from the beginning of the book and placed at the head of each * measurement of type page) chapter. the text, in spite of the words 'newly oversene and connected', appears to be a close reprint of Covendale's Bible of 1535. // f^o 288 x 189 [321 x 213 mm] 602ff.

[inserted] The text divided into 6 parts. New Testament #6 [end inserted] The text printed in bold English black letter. The headlines + folio numbers are printed in fine large typo. Each part of the text has a separate foliation. Excluding title borders, -->

Excluding the title borders ->57 separate blocks are used for 94 illustraations. According to an MS note Frey was able to trace no more than 8 copies of this edition.

It was because the dissernmmilion do the Scriptures in English was prohibited by the ecuclesiastical authorities that Tyndale was obliged [inserted] c. clairp. 61 155.142 C 58 (Santa Clara) [end inserted]to take refute in Germany to complete his Translation of the New Testament, the 1st to be painted in the English language, which was issued by Peter Schoeffer at Worms in 152506. Tyndale met a martyr's death in 1536 before he had translated the whole Bible, which he certainly would have done had he lived. The completion of the English Bible ever to be printed was published in 1535. Even today it is not known for certain where or by whom it was printed, but from the evidence of its types most authorities consider it was printed at Cologne by Cervicorn or Soter. L.A. Sheppard, however, considers the book to have been printed by the same printers at Marburg.

This Coverdale Bible was reprinted in 1537, ostensibly by James Nicolson of Southwark, a native of the Low Countries, who had a printing office in St. Thomas's Hospital, but actually Nicolson only imported the sheetsof the edition, which he purchased from Jacob van Meteren, the Antwerp merchant who had subsidized Corendale's Bible.

British Museum --> The earliest printing of the Bible in English-P. Quentell - Cologne 1525 New Testament "fyue sunday interpreters" were - The Swiss German version of zueingli and Leo Juda (printed at Zurich 1524-9), 2) the Latin version of Sanctus Pagninus (the 1st edition appeared in 1528), 3) Luther's German Version (finished in 1532), the 4) Vulgate and 5) Tyndale.

1537 [inserted] In the Psalter te ordinary Latin headings are prefixed. These had seen omitted in the 1st ed. [end inserted] -- its large initials framed with design from the Danca of Duth seius. Title within the same woodcut border as that employed for the 1st ed. 1535 -- title page by Holbein title page of New Testament - unknown artist - shows the evangelists in the 4 courses. A Literary History of the Bible - Gedder MacCragan - 1968 BS 455 M 32 (West Valley)

p. 54 c. Clair

Before the religious reforms brought about in the middle of the 16th C there was no liturgical unity in England. Although the Roman Rita was in use throughout the and, it was modified in altered in catain repecta following the accepted usage of the great cathedral churches. The 5 chief 'uses' were those of Salisburg (which differed least from the Roman use) York, Hereford, Bangor and Lincol. Of lesser importance were those of Aberdeen, Abinton, Coyland and London. Canterburg adopted The Serum Use which lasted until 1534 and was revived during the few years of Mary's reign. - [illegible] a maas-book, which contained all the recited a chanted texts of the Mass. After the Norman Conquest it followed as a matter of course that the liturgy used in England should have much in common, except certain officers for saints Londere locally, that of the church at Rowen.

8 different versions (1525-1611)

The Covendale Poalter dy H. Willoughby Gunot Z239 L19B52f

C1535 Coverdale Bible 1537 The Tomas Matthew Bible by John Rogers 1539 The scholarly translation by Richard Tavaner 1539 The Great Bible, at first supported by Cromwell and later prefaced by Crammer 1560 The Calvinistic Geneva Bibleof the Protestant exiles 1568 The official Bishop's Bible edited by Archbishop Parken 1609 The [illegible] Version made by the Roman Catholic exiles of Rheims 1611 King James translation #145 Book Club of California - 1974 - (1535 Bible) $55 The English Bible in the John Rylands Library, 1899 ed. Richard Lovett (1525-40) Covendale visited [illegible], switz. --> 1557-8