Farfel Research Notebooks

- The Psalter actually in now at the present time throughout the English speaking world, whenever the Book of Common Prayer is the manual fn worship, is the 1535 version of the Psalms by Miles Covendale, revised by Coverdale himself fn the Great Biblbe.

[inserted] J.F. Mozley p 324 220.52 I535m [end inserted] Coverdale 1535, Oct 4: translates Biblia, The Bible; [Cologne, Soter + Cervicorn] ; fol.; S.T.C. 2063. Reprinted with a few emendations in 1537 by Nicolson in both folio + quarto, + again in 1550 by C. Froschover of Zurich in quarto. (ascribed the translation to Thomas Matthew.)

The Tavern Bible - printed by John Bydell fn Thomas Berthelet in 1539. The book is a revision of Matthew, or a much less thorough revision than that of the Great Bible.

in 1538 an edition of Coverdale's New Testament was published in 16 mo only a few copies are extant

- In Luther's New Testament of 1522 he separated the last books (Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation) from the 1st 23, fn he did not think the 4 books had the same high canonical quality as the "capital books". - Coverdale's Bible was the 1st to introduce chapter summaries as distinct from the terse chapter headings found in copies of the Vulgate. 3) the first to separate the books of the Apocrypha from the other Old Testament books and print them by themselves as an appendix T. the Old Testament - According to Lovett the 1537 edition his 56 different woodblocks in a total of 94 illustrations. 3 of the 1535 Bible were not used, + the Apocrypha has only 1 in the text as compared with 33 in the 1535 edition. 1537 - the edition was in fact littl emore than tyndale Coverdale text differently mainly in the use of the illustrations woodcuts.

- In the Book of Durrow, St John's symbol is not the usual Eagle but, following the pre-Jerome order, the lion.

- Although before the end of the 15th C Bibles had been printed in German, Italian, French, Dutch, Danish, Bohemian + Spanish, England was sitll without a printed Bible in the Tongue of the people. Caxton could not have printed one for in 1414 a law was enacted that all person found reading the Scriptures in the mother Tongue shold 'forfeit lant, atel, lif + goods from their heyres for ever.

The excellence of Coverdale's work lies in its literary quality from the point of view of English usage, rather than in its textual bases or translational accuracy. ("a translation from translations")

The provenance of the 1535 Coverdale Bible remains still a matter of mystery.

The main biblical text of the Coverdale edition 1535 was divided into 6 main sections: Pentateuch, Historical Books, Hagiographa (poetical books) Prophets, Apocrypha, New Testament. woodcut illustrations appear in the text comprising 68 different instances in a total of some 158 places.

1535 - Bible - the generall title is accepted as Holbeun's design. The smaller cuts (67) by repetition over 150 reappear in Nicolson's folios of 1537 + Day + Seres' reprint of the Matthew Bible of 1549.

James Nicholson (1535-38) address: Southward St. Thomas Hospital although he was known to be alive a a considerably later date, no book was printed by him after 1538.

1537 Coverdale Bible (J. Nicholson) - 1st ed of the whole English Bible to be printed in England. Tyndale's New Testament had been printed the previous year by a london printed named Thomas Godfrey.

61 Feb. '77 Rosenthal $35

Livre d' Henres - French (235x160mm) (1515-30) printed on Vellum Paris c. 1515 - [inserted] in French [end inserted] Almanack with Calendar on Veras

p. 273 S.T.C. C. 29 R. 22.

P. Lacombe - Z7838 H6 L2 -2nd page #263 Henres a l'usage de Romevers 1515 sons la marque des Handonin (le centare Nessus) Fol. A2: Almanach pan 1515-1530 imprimés a Paris pan Gillet Handonyn, demonant au bout de pont Nostre Dame, want Sainct Denis de la Chantre, a l'enseigne de la Rollae d'or.

In 4^o Goth. Les grandes figures en couleurs Sur velin. Bibl. Nationale - Velins 1518. --> {does not correspond to this page 5/98 88 feuillets en 11 cahiers signés A-L par 8 30 lignes. Cf. Brunet, Heures, nos 245, 246, et add., col. 1687, n^o 246 bio - Catalogue de la libn. Th. Belin, 1906 n^o 75. Brunet, P.C. - Manuel de librarie, Paris, Vol. 5 p. 1629 Z1011 B89 Ret. or P1638 #251 #245 - Heures a lusaige de Romme Jout au long sens nien nequenin in 4' Goth. - encadnements et grandes planches sur bois - un exemplaire sur Vélin, avec les figures peintes et rehaussées d'or, niche reliure francaise ancienne en manoquin.

P. Lacombo #265 Gillet Handouin In - 4^o Goth, Fig en noir (not velins) A2 A/manach pour 1515-30 10v fenillets en 14 cahiers 28 lines de texte signia A-M per 8 et A par 4 Bibl de l'Ecole des Beaux Arts G.I. 17. #262 - Guillaume Godard - IN 4' Goth. #275 - Simon Vostre - In 4' Goth.

Paris, Gillet Hardouyn - large device of the Hardounis viz. Hercules rescuing Deianuce from centaur Hessus. - at border calendar (mine) same as a border from (8 2/8 x 5 1/4) #270 (1509) C. F. Murray --> Z 240 M97 - elaborate borders composed of Renaissance ornament interspersed with children playing, figures of saints, hunting scenes, etc. - boys playing amidst foliage, dance of death - Germain Handouin (son or brother of Gillet) - Les Heures published by Gillet and Germain Hardouin existent en aussi grand nombre que calles de Kenver mais nous les jugeons in [illegible] a as dennieres with surtout a cellus de Vostre - Gillet --> 1497, 1509-1521 (un bout de pon) Notre Dame) aftu 1521 --> Germain. Germain Handouin - Paris worked about 1500-1541. Gillet Hardouin - Paris worked about 1491-1521.

Hind History of Woodcut p 696 A.W. Pollard

- family of Hardouin - taken earliest Horae being used in 1504/5 - printed by Antoine Chappid for Gillet Hurdoim with woodcut surface 7 1/2 x 4 3/4" - Gillet Hardouin - who wiht his successors was responsible for some 70 editions during the first half of the 16th C. Horae - Calendars - of the moveable feasts - all that those calendars show is that the edition in which they occur must have been printed before, probably at least 5 or 6 years before, the last year for which they are reckoned. - the brothers Germain and Gilus Hardouim produced [illegible] as many examples as Vostre and Pigouchet - they are characterized by the frequent use of hand colouring in the woodcuts in imitation of manuscript Book of Ours.

R.L. Poole - Medieval Reckonings of Time London 1921

62 April 77 Rosenthal $27.50

Bible - French - early 13th C (C 1240) folio. 182 - Very small Gothic minususcule sometimes called "Pearl Gothic." - written in France about 1250 in a very small neat Gothic minuscule which seems to have been developed for small format Bibles. Ruled with a stylus.

Otto Ege leaf from a 12th C. Manuscript Bible - this century surpassed all others for the beautiful writing found in its manuscripts. It has been noted, however, that the more beautiful a MSS becomes in its characters, the less accurate in its Latinity. SOme writings of the Benedictines during this centyr, are almost unintelligible because of their barbarous Latin.

*Miniature MSS Bible circa 1240 AP #62 et sign crossed - Paris this period The Latin Vulgate version usually attributed to St. Jerome is here executed in angular Gothic script, 11 lines to the inch, on finest vellum. These small protable Bible were produced in great numbers by the Dominicians (1250-1275) in the early days of the Sorbonne, It has been calculated that in the year 1250, it would have taken the earnings of a day laborer for 15 yrs to purchase a MSS Bible of this type.

Paris MSS Bible circa 1310 see #42 Written in Gothic script 7 lines to the inch. The calligraphy + ornamentation on this page deserve class inspection. This form of writing is in marked contrast to the minute, much abbreviated + angular text of the preceding Century.

13th C - the inks used in Italy + France in this period frequently had a decided brown hue, while those used in England had a green tone.

Book of Sirach - extols wisdom + ethical conduct. - this long book (51 chapters) forms part of the OT Wisdom literature - one of the few books of the OT to give the name of its author, The Latin title of the book is Ecclesiasticus. Sirach, a professional s scribe i.e. wise man composed his books for "every seeker after wisdom." Sirach wrote his book in Hebrew c. 180 BC. The Durtero canonical Book of Sirach was omitted from the Jewish (hense also from the Protestant) Canon, most likely because of the sectarienism of the Pharisees at the Synod of Jemnia c. AD 95. Sirach is a collection of poems praising wisdom + a kind of handbook of moral theology. It what a pious Jew of the 2nd C. BC believed + how he acted.

44.1 - 50.21 - Prais of Fathers [inserted] the longest sustained theme in the book is the celebrated section on the Praise of Famous Men. [end inserted] 49 Josiah + the Prophets 46 Joshua, Cabeb + The Judges 50 Simon, Son of Jochanan 47 Nathan, David + Solomon 48 Elijah + Elisha

Vulgate Bia. Ecclesiastes. Canticum Ecclesiastes ( or the O.T. Preacher) Canticorum Song of Songs Sapientia Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Sirach seu Ecclesiasticus Isaiah Isaias (liber Iesu Filii Serach

Sirach - father of the authro of Ecclesiasticus, which is sometimes called Sirach Ben Sira is Hebrew for 'son of Sirach'

Not unalike the Paresian university hand was the minature writing used in the innumerable "packet" Bibles written in the 15th C in response to the recieved interest in the Scriptures that was brought about by the teaching of the new orders of friars. (Ency. Brit.)

Apocrypha - a nuclus of 14 or 15documents written during the last 2 centuries before Christ + the 1st C of the Chrisian era. Old Testament - 39 books New Testament - 27 books In 1546 the Roamn Church officially declared Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, I + II Maccabees, + certain supplementary parts of Esther + David to be inspired + on a par with the books of the Old Testament, among wich these are interspersed. Some Catholic scholars have designated these desputed books as dustero canonical, meaning thereby books accepted as canonical at a later date than the others, which are turned protocanonical. It is usual among Roman Catholics to apply the term Apocrypha to the books which others commonly designate Pseudepigraphs.

-Coverdale had the Apocrypha en bloc between the Testaments except Baruch which he places after Jeremiah. - The apocryphal books are the weakest part of the Authorized Verison.

p. 22 Great Books + Collectors Aung. Thomas THe 1st manuscritps to have survived in any quantity are the Bibles written - esp. in France during the 100 yrs following 1175. The strong hand of Philip Augustus (1180-1223) had affected a aonsiderable degree of security in France enabling the arts to flourish. WIth the reign of St. Louis (1226-70) intellectual leadership moved from the monasteries to the universities where the friars, especially the Dominicans played a great part. St. Louis gathered an important theological library in the treasury of the St. Chapelle, remarking that a church without books was like an army without weapons. Manuscript production now passed mainly to commerical workshops which were to be found near the universities in Paris + elsewhere.

63 July 77 Rosenthal $45

Manuscript leaf - 14th C. German Roman Missal - Monday in Easter Week. Gothic - the extensive flourishes + excessive suifs betray its lateness (14th C) There is hardly a word that does

The Roman Missal - A. Cabrol - 1934 - 264.02 C364 mc not show flourishes at which the script of the more vigorous 13th C was free The missal contains all the recited + chanted texts fo the Mass. Since it is an organic combination of the sacramentary + the gradual, it may contain the music of the chanted parts or only their texts. Hence the difference between noted missale + plain ones. In the later Middle Ages the necessary instructions (rubries) were inserted. In such cases the Missal is called rubricated

Strassburg Mentelin - 1473

The Nomina Sacra: ds, di = deus, dei; dns, dni = dominus domini; ihs, ihu = Iesus, Iesu; xpr, spi = Christus Q Christi; sps, spui, spm = spiritus, spiritui, spiritum; ses, sci = sanctus, sancti.

The modern Roman Missal is basically that approved by Pius V in 1570.

Missal - 2 cycles of Christmas + Easter

*German

P=per *cu=cum qm=quoniam postqm=postquam Italian mia=misericordia px=rum [?]=? *9=us oi=omni French scd'm=secundum ppl'o=populo *lucham=Lucam *C3=sed qd'=quud os=omnas - Spanish minuscle A=a

2-2 loops - an orthodox gothic a formed as we have seen for this century (14th) in 2 parallel downward strokes, crossed lightly just above the middle.

-made with 2 vertical strokes + a horizontal third stroke

64 Sept. '77 Argonaut $10.00

Juan de Torqusmade (Italian) Johannes de Turrecremata Cardinal (Spain 1388 - Rome 1468) Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis Cologne: [Petrus in Altis (Bergmann?), de Olpe 23 Aug. 1478] f0 h1 (of 8) Goff T545 HC 15710 Pr. 1233 Voullieme 689. BMC I252 (IB 4207) Cop: HEHL; Univ N. Carolina L. quarter of book - this page (just past [crossed out] middle [end crossed out] first)

[ab6; c-y A-M8 N06] 280 leaves, I + 13 blank. 2 columns, 38 lines 203x134mm Type 185 [inserted] larger type of the same kind as Bartholomaeus de Unkel's Type 2 Quintell 1st press 102.[end inserted] 2, 3 + 6 line spaces left for capitals.

A useful book for preachers providing the biblical bacground + moral themes of each feast day arranged according to the calendar. 1st printed in 1477. This printer's first book is Michael de Dalen, Casus summarii decretalium, 18 Dec 1476; his last J. de Turrecremata, Questiones euangeliorum 23 Aug. 1478. THe printers extant productions number only 10 in all.

his first important book - Turrecremata, Johannus de De efficacia aquae benedictae (Augsburg, Sorg 1476?) Expositio super tot0 poalterio (Mainz, Schoeffer 1474) $2000 [1977] Meditationes seu (or) Contemplationes devotiesimae De Potestate Papae et Concilii Generalis

Quaestiones Goff T553 [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1484] f0 Cop: Stan UL HC 15714 BMC II 747 194 leaves

- THomas de Torguemada - Spanish inquisitor (1420-98). - Dominican cardinal, illustrious theologian, defender of papal authority against the conciliarists at Basel - was an older kinsmen of (uncle) the chief inquisitor - wrote his chief work 1448-9 Summa de ecclesia defending the Church against both heretics + conciliarists - recieved the title "Defensor fidei" from Pope Eugenius IV.

Cologne - Printers Bartholomaeus de Unkel Johannes de Bell Hermann Bumgert Connelis de Zierikzee Goiswin Gopa Nicolaus Gotz

* Johann Guldenschaff * " Koelhoff elder + younger " Landen * Ludwig von Renchen Martin " " * Petris in Altis, de Olpe just East of COlogne * Heinrich Quintell (Basel) * Johann Solidi Gerardus ten Raem Arnold then Hoernos Peter the Hoernen

* Conrad Winters * Ulrich Zel

A. Hind The 1st book illustrations, cut on wood, in Italy, appeared in the edition of Turrecremata's Meditationes, printed at Rome by Holrich Han in 1467. Cardinal Turrecremata, the Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of St. Scholastica of Subiaco, was no doubt partly responsible for the introduction of printing in Italy for it was in his convent that Sweynheyn + Pannertz set up their first press. (1464.)

Turrecremata was born + educated at Vallsdolid, joined the Dominican Order + distinguished himeslf. He took his Doctor's defree at Paris in 1432 + after teaching there for some time became prior of the Dominican house in Valladolid + later in Toledo. At the Council of Basel he was one of the ablest supporters of the Roman auia + was new aarded with a cardinal's hat in 1439. In 1455 Pope Callistus III made him abbot of Subiaco outside Rome.

HEHL #104292 Rubricated in red + blue in (large initials only) my leaf h1 (of 8) marked folio 53 A in my leaf is much more elegant. bound in with Huntington copy #104293 Albertus Trottus COlogne ca 1478 Potrus de Olpe.