Farfel Research Notebooks

The long hisory of Jewish settlement in the cities + towns of Yemen, isolated at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula, resulted in a Jewish civilization that was different from that of other communities. Of venerable age, dating back at least to pre-Islamic times , the Yemenite community at first may have practiced a form of Judaism at variance with that of Palestine + Babylonia but gradually it came under the influence of the talmudic academies in those 2 centers. By the 12th C the Jews of Yemen were fully within the mainstream of rabbinic Judaism. Because the Jewish community of Yemen was so isolated, its traditional ways of social + religious life were not influenced by many of the trends + currents that affected the rest of the Jewish world. For this reason, it has preserved many works of Jewish literature that were lost or forgotten elsewhere.

Berkowitz #31 Yemenite Pentateuch 15th C - written bold square characters of Yemenite origin - on paper. "Although printing in Hebrew type was to be common in Constantinople early in the 16th C, it would be long before the Arabian peninsula experienced the invasion of type + consequentlythe manuscript tradition continued to fourish there" Yemenite school of illumination - surviving example of which date from the end of the 14th C + later developed to its fullest capacity only in the 2nd half of the 15th C. Yemenite Bibles were embellished with floral carpet pages + micrography in geometrical forms. These Bibles contain no text illustrations. - Oriental Hebrew + Arabic manuscripts share the same types of paper characterized by glosiness, absence of chain lines. Paper without visible wire lines at all seen in all the MSS written in Yemen during the Middle Ages.

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"Meffret" (Meffreth) [Petrus Meffordis May ? fl. 1445-1476] Sermones I-II de tempore et de sanctis III, sive Horulus reginae - part 2, De tempore - pars hiemalis f^0 See #626 #519 Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 20 Jan. 1487 Ref: Goff M-442 H. 11005 Polain (B) 2656 BMC III 764 Pr 7659 Oates 2812 Graesse IV p. 464. Copy: UN CaLm YUL, B. Royale (II, III I. Missing) Burgos (Biblioteca Publica del Estado) I + III UB Basel. Dominica Secunda Advent 7 f Dominica tertia Aductus sermo c4 (of 8) - marked folio 26.

Sermons arranged according to the sanctoral and according to the liturgical year. 3 parts - hiemalis, aestivalis, de sanctis In all its numerous ediitons, the Sermones are very seldom found with all 3 parts. In most cases there are single parts only in circulation + the major catalogues record such parts as single inits. It is not definitely established that the parts form a complete item. I. Pars hiemalis - 232 leaves a 12 b 10 c - L s-v w-z z p8 4^10 II. Pars estavalis - 274 323 - Hain 324 Grasse 324 - BMC Polain ffnc. signat. - 2 col. III> Pars de sanctis 198 leaves part I 2^a, 55 lines + headline, 228 (241)x142mm. Tyeps 180 majuscule feathered Used throughout titles, headlins (names of Sundays + sermon numbers) + headings. 82a text. (in use 1486-91)

N. Kesler - earliest dated book - March 2, 1486 (Peter Lombard). He was still printing in 1510 + alive as leate as 1519.

Victor Scholderer in "Fifty Essays" (1966) p 283. - speculates that Meffret is not a personal name, but merely an alternative title of the collection: Meffreth alias Hortulus Reginae, and that the author is anonymus. (a Dominican ??) The Pars de Santis was completed in 1443 + De Tempore was started in the same year. - written in honour of the diocese of Meissen (in Saxony) - the sermons affort what is perhaps a unique instance of an early printed text subjected to an individual censorship on theological grounds.

HEHL MSS Ref z 108 S35 For a suggested identification of "Meffret" with Mag. Petrus Meffordis of Leipzig, see J. B. Schneyer in Scriptorium 32 (1978) 231-248 at p. 239. THe early ed. of Sermones Meffreth were all printed in Basel + Nuremberg

#39 - 1433 preacher at Meissen.

Meffreth ist nur ein Beckname, vielleicht sich darunter der Magister Petrus Meffordis aus Leipzig. Sicher war en Priester der Diozese Meissen. (Jocher) Ersturd zwischen 1445-1476 auf der Hohe seines Wirkens. N Kessler of Baltwar, became a citizen of Basel in 1480. He printed in Basel till 1509 having taken over Richel's printing office + whose daughter he had married. - N. Kessler is best remembered today for printing an ed. of the Epistolare of St. Jerome, which contains the famous woodcut by A. Durer of St. Jerome removing the thorn from teh foot of a lion.

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Merula, Goergius (Georgio 1430/31-1494. 1 (with other tracts) In librum de homine Martii Galeotti opus Venice: Johannes de Colonia + Johannes Manthen, about 1474. Ref: Goff M-504 H. 11097. Osler 56. Polain (B) 2674 Pell 7851(7789) BMC V 230 Proctor 4285 IGI 6380 Klebs 678.1 Copy: B Maw CL, Boston Medical Library, Yale - historical library of the Medical School. Louvrain. Bib. Nat (my leaf, e1 (of 8))

b10, c10, d-f8 g8 h10 i6 l8 m6 - 82 leaves, I + 69 blank. 4a: 29 (28-30) lines. 160x99mm. -1st edition Type: 110R^a2 - text tyep. In use 1474-5. (3 states) 110 Greek, in quotations. Used 1474-9. Identical with V. de spira 110 Gk. Capital spaces with guide letters. 3^a - 44^a. in librum De himine Galeoti Narniensis opus 45b - 62a in Sapphus epistolam interpretatio.

POlain 2674 Merula (Georgius) Opus in librum Galeotti Martii Narniensis de homine; Commentarius in Sapphys epistolam; Querela in quemdam Plinii editorem; Animael verisones in quosdam commentutores qui orthographiam Virgilii depravarunt. 45-82

J. de Colonia + J. Manthen - this partnership produced more than 12 books in 1474 (earliest 23 March) + continued in regular work until 10 Oct. 1480. 2a Georgius Merula Alexandrinus Laurentio + Iuliano Medices Salutem - dedication letter.

G. Merula = devoted himself to revising + annotating ancient writers. - worked intermittently throughout the 1470's with a number of Venetian pritners, including Windelius of Speger, Jenson + John of Cologne: but apart from a generally worded tribute to Jenson, he has nothing to say about pritners as people, + even in the preface to a pritned ed. does not hesitate to question whether the new craft is a help or a hinderance to scholarship. - edited Scriptures Rei Rusticae with Jenson in 1472 (Goff S-346) - in 1478 published as a commentary on Cicero's Oratio pro Ligario the series of public lectures he had recently delivered. - commentary on Juvenslis (Goff J 665, J-666) - Merula (Alexandrinus) Georgio. Enarrationes Vocum Priscarum in Libros de Re Rustica - a botanical glossary based on Cato + Varro's "De re Rustica"

Goff F-44+45 "Refatatio obiectorum in librum De Homine a Georgio Mericla" a reply to Goff M-504. Galeottus says --

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The Holie Bible - Old Testament Bouai: Lawrence Kellam at the sign of the holie Lambe. 1609-1610. 4^0 See #324 #664 Ref: Herbert 300. S.T.C. 2207 Copy: HEHL, BM, Bod

my leaf The First Booke of Samuel ends on p. 636 Chap. I 1-24 pp. 573-4 Zzz3 (of 4) Hhhh2 (of 4)

HEHL 96554 The editio princeps of the Roman Catholic version of the O.T. in English Vol. 1 is dated 1609 + Vol. 2 is dated 1610.

The Dowain Old Testament appeared to late to exert much influence on the King James translations, but they apparently read + studied the Rheins New Testament. The O.T. with fewer + milder doctrinal notes came off the press of Lawrence Kellam in 1609-10. As in the Vulgate, the books of the Apocrypha were interspersed throught the O.T. rather than gathered in one place, as had become common in Protestant versions. A 2nd ed. of the N.T. was printed by Daniel Veruliet - in Antwerp in 1600 in pocket size + reissued in 1621 + 1633. The O.T. was publsihed later in Rouen in 1635. (4^0 2 vol., John Coustrier) No further editions of the Catholic version of the Bible were printed for 115 years until 1750/

[20], 1115 pp; 1124 (i.e. 1128) pp. In vol. 2 pp. 1001-1004 are repeated in the pagination.

The only Tudor translation fo the Bible by + for Roman Catholics, the Rheims-Douai came from English priests living in exile in France. It was planned + supervised by William, later Cardinal, Allen, founder of the English College at Douai. Gregory Martin, like Allen a former Oxford scholar did most of the translating. This Bible differed from all other Tudor ones; it originated in a desire to provide for the clergy, whereas Tyndale + the other early translators had been concerned initially about laymen; unlike Tyndale + others who had translated from Hebrew + Greek, Martin used as his basic text the Latin Vulgate, declared by the Council of Trent to be the authentic Scriptures. - The editio princeps of the Roman Catholic version of the O.T. in English. The delay in producing the O.T. is ascribed in the preface "to our poore estate in banishment." Bible - American Douai - English Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart + Co., 1790. Quarto. Carey's text is taken from Challoner's 1763 revision of the Douai - Rheins ed. The 1st Catholic Bible Printed in the U.S. + the 1st Bible an English language minority printed in America

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Froissart, Jean (ca. 1337-1400/01) Chroniques Paris: Antoine Virard (about 1499) f^0 Ref: Goff F-322 C. 2591 Macf 111, Pell 4931, Polain (B) 1522 Oates 3175 Pr 8452 BMC VIII, 88 Copy: PML, New L (II-IV), BM., B Nat. B. Royale

See #345 #445 #165 #619 Paris: Antoine Verard (after 1500) (1497?) f^0 Ref: Goff F-323 C 2592 Macf 112 Pell 4932 Hunt 4720 Copy: HEHL, ChL, B. Nat.

F^6 (of 10) fueillet XXXVii (misnumbered, actually leaf x1) Des gantoys - et flamens

Chapters 22 +23. Pell 4932 - Vol. 1 - 8 ffnc, 271 ffc.: I-cclxxi et 1 fnc. sig. 1-z, z, aa-ll par 8 ff. Vol 2 - 8 ffnc, 279 ffc.: I-cclxxix et 1 fnc. sig. AA, B-X, AA-PP, par 8 ff. excepte F qui en a 10 et G qui en 6 Vol. 4 - 2 ffnc., 111 ffc.: I-CXi et 1 fnc. an premier cahier non signe de 2 ff et sig. AAA - OOO par 8 ff excepte MMM qui en 10 et NNN qui en 6. dem ourant a Paris sur le pont sostre dame

2 col. 46 lines ot a column. plate Type 12? (Claudin II p. 491, Mac. 71)

Calligraphique L, an titre de chaque vol. - 2 faces.

A. Verard - 1st book - Nov. 22, 1485 last - July 1512.

HEHL 87536 Vol. 2 - 3+f. "imprime a Paris pour Anthoyne Verard marchant librsine demoinant a Paris sur le ponts nostre dame a -" no rubrication my leaf xxxii misnumbered - actually leaf xl. F^6 (of 10) Title before mine - " Coment les blanc chaperons de grand occiret le baillif en my (emmy) le marche / 7 des biens 7 maisons aux navieurs qui fu ret destruiz 7 gastez / 7 le grat broullis qui fut lors a gand."

Vol. 1 "Demourant a paris devant la rue neufue nostre dame pres hostel Dieu" - i.e. not before 1502 (Pell 4932) Pell 4931 Polain 1522 BMC VIII, 88 - all 4 volumes have "sur le pont nostre dame" Goff F-322

Tye type of Vol. I - there are no 2 line Lombards. (Pell 4932) matches Mac #12 but Vol 2, 3 + 4 are mixed (my type) + Mac #12. (106 B-BMC) Mac #12 contains 3 line Lombards and C. (curling horna) my leaf from Vol. 2 has 2 line Lombards and C. (straight horns) - capitals E + S also differ.

- undaed books of 1485-99 bearing the address "sur le pont nostre dame" p. 491 - Claudir "la chute du pont Notre-Dame a la fin de 1499. - Driant type (105 B) - very close match. (See Pell 4932 vol. 1)