Farfel Research Notebooks

532 Pirages McMinnville, Oregon Nov. '00 $125

Guido de Columna (c. 1215-c. 1290 Messina) Historia destructionis Troiae. (German) Hystori wie Troya erstort ward. Translated from Latin by Hans Main. Augsburg: Johannes Bamler, 1474. f^0 Ref: BMC. II 332 GW. 7233 HC 5514 Proctor 1606 Schrieber 4131 Schramm. 3 Abb. 59-102. Copy: Brit. M.

folio 82 k4 (of 8) Book 15 BMC Historie von der koniglichen Stadt Troja. - after April 23 4, 1474/ (a10 b-g8 h12 i-q8 r10) 144 leaves: 2a, 29 lines, 202x125mm. Type 14- (P1) large text type. Used throughout Bamler's career. Many of the letters occur in various forms - 5 varieties of A, 2 of D, 2 of E, M (Haebler M11 and M79) Upward of 70 woodcuts including 17 repeats. Capitals, 1a Maiblumen, ca 42x22 mm; white ground double frame. 1b Same style, ca 35x34 mm; white ground double frame. 2 outline capitals, 20-22 mm. high. GW #7233 144 leaves. 28 lines. Init. c, d, f, g, h.. Rubr: + 67 woodcuts, numerous repeats.

#7234 Augsburg: A. Sorg, 30 April 1479. f^0 134 leaves, 32-35 lines Type: 2: 118 G. 67 woodcuts. Copy: Muchen SB, Leningrad OB> Morgan Lib. H. 5515 Schreiber 4134. - The 1st 2 ed. printed by Bamler 1474 + Sorg 1479, both end with the destruction of Troy, omitting the final chapters on the homeward journey of the Greeks.

Bamler's earliest book with precise date - April 22, 1472 - latest April 13, 1495. But his output during the last 12 years of this period was less than 45 of that of his first eleven. Schreiber 4131 "Les dim moy. des 67, g.s.b. se trouvant dans le texte sont de 80: 115mm. et elles sont, pour la plupart, encadrees de deux traits carnes. Au debut: Hecube, Son enfant (Paris). Priam se tient a droite sous une porte ouverte, par laquelle on a percoit dans le lointain la ville de Troie en flammes." HEHL 103164 no rub. Goff C-780 Strassburg 1499. Hain 5519. B. Kistler with woodcuts - in this edition my leaf is blatt LXI (verso) to Lxii (verso) - wording is the same. Total of c (100) blatt.

Bamler - the 3rd pritner in his native Augsburg. He is known at one time to have been a rubricator, having signed one of Eygestein's Bibles + dated his work "1466." He printed some 80 books + he was one of the few 15th C pritners whose books as mostly in the vernacular. - The prose epic of Guido de Colonna which became the most popular medieval version of the story of the Trojan War, is based on Benoit de St. Maur's Roman de Troie "In the histories of Dares + Dictys, everything that, in Himer, related to the mythology + the flights of the gods was expunged and thus in the tale of Troy a vacanvy was left for the introduction of romantic embellishment" (Denlap, History of Fiction).

533 One Mans Junk Cape Coral, Fl. Dec. '00 $50.00

John Foxe (1516-1587) Actes and monuments (The Book of Martyrs) See #509 #49 #394 #50 #454 #690 London: Peter Short, dwelling on Breadstreete hill at the sign of the Starre, 1597 f^0 Ref: STC. 11226a Copy: Stanford, HEHL (20115) Vol. 2 (KC 1596 F6) Vol. 1+2 - 1597. "Newly recognised + enlarged by the Author." 5th edition Peter Short - printer in London 1589-1603. Foxe's Acts + Monuments, begun by Henry Denham + finished by p. Short in 1596-7.

my leaf, taller than HEHL copy - p. 1357 - Woodcut "The burning of Maister John Rogers, Vicar of Saint Pulchers, and reader of Paules in London" Sig Oooooo' (of 6).

K. Han. 9 P. 985 - THe Martyrdome and burning of maister WIlliam Tindall in Flannders by Filford Castle." p. 910 - "The burning of Thomas Hytten." p. 749 ' "The burnign of Willam Sweating and Christopher Shoomaker." p. 946 "The burning of John Frith and Andrew Huvet." p. 1033 "Collins with hsi dogge burned."

Edward VI (1547-1553). Mary Tudor (1553-1558). Elizabeth came to the throne (1558)

(Title) Vol. 2 begins p. 729 Aaaa i Q Mary begins p. 1278 ends p. 1949 Zzzzzzzz3

My leaf (p. 1357 is from the 11th Book. (The Story, Life, + Martyrdome of Maister John Rogers) which begins on p. 1348 HEHL 20115 - Vol. I (STC 11226) Peter Short 1596, ends on p. 728 with the 5th Book) Volume ie. K. Henry 7.

On page 1356 John Rogers. "His wife and childred being XI in number X able to go, and one sucking onher brest, met him by the way as hee went towardes Smith field: this sorrowfull sight of his owne flesh and blood could nothing moove him, but that he constantly and cheerefullie took his death with wonderful patience, in the defense and quarel of Christes Gospell."

"Matthew's Bible" (Antwerp, 1537) More of Tyndale's work appeared in this Bible than in any toher. "Thomas Matthew," said ont eh title-page to be the translator is regarded as a pseudonym for John Rogers, a companion of Tyndale, who prepared the work for the press. HTe Matthew Bible had offical approval. Thus Tyndale's work fobidden during Henry's reign when put forth under Tyndale's name, was transmitted, ironically enough, by a Bible having the government;s sanction. See #50 - A Traictise Declarying ..... unlawful. London: R. Caly 1554. Martin finished this work late in 1553. It was dedicated to Queen Mary, who took such favorable notice of the book that she saw to Martin;s advancement in her government. - J. Foxe was on eof the most convinced + stalwart of the champions of the Reformation. THe Book of Martyrs is the epic of the martyr age of the Church of England.

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The Byble in Englyshe (Great Bible) London: Richard Grafton, Dec. 1541 f^0 Ref: STC 2076. Herbert 63 D+M 37 Copy: HEHL, PML, See #395 #326 #516 (Isaiah) STC 2069 The 7th Great Bible, the last of the 1539-41 series, and the 6th with Cranmer's Prologue. 534 ff. A full column contains 62 lines.

my leaf The Prophecye Esay Fo. xliii Isaiah 3;18 - 7:6 FF iii HEHL 44165 - Not my leaf, heading has Of Esay. S.R.C. 2076 Fo. xliii FFiii (of 8) the same catchword "lyght" nto "and" as in mine. "Esay" begins on Fo. xlii + ends on Fo. lxii in this ed.

HEHL 32897 - S.T.C 2072 Not my leaf. B + M 34 in this edition (4th) my leaf is folio XXXVii Nov. 1540 -65 lines.

Colin Claire, History of Printing in Britain - Despite the expenses they had incurred Grafton + Whitchurch were well rewarded, for by Dec. 1541 they had printed 7 ed. of the Great Bible for which they had the sole publishing rights. The only other Cranmer Bible to appear during that time was one printed by Petyt + Redman in 1540 (See #395( for Berthelet, but this was poorly printed in comparison. - THe 2nd + subsequent ed. of the Great Bible were often known as Cranmer's Bible owing to the fact that they contain a preface by the Archbishop. - There were 4 furhter ed. in folio + 6 in quarto until it was finally superseeded by the Bishop's Bible of 1568.

* The Byble in Englyshe (Great Bible) London: Richard Grafton, July 1540/ Ref: S.T.C. 2076 Herbert 54. folio Copy: BH, BM, NN (337x137mm) The 3rd Great Bible; and the second with Cranmer's Prologue. 534 ff? A full column contains 62 lines. Black letter, double column. This is one of the rarest editions - The 3rd + 5th editions carry a notice that they were "overseen" by Bishopt Tunstall + Heath, this to disassociate the Bible from Cromwell;s namem for he had fallen from the King's favor + had been executed in 1541. - THe text mainly follows taht of the 2nd ed, though it contains a number of minute variations. HEHL 73097 July 1540 - this ed. has many thin, some thick + a few small pointing hands placed in the text + margins. leaf book Franeis Fry Great Bibles (1865) thick hands [Parts I, II, III (my leaf, 43) none in parts IV or V]

April 1540, some thick hands May 1541, no hands Dec 1541, some thick hands 1539 - thin pointing hands in text + margins.

- The Great Bible was often reprinted - 18 ed. up to 1568 - it is of interest to note taht teh Psalter in the English Book of Common Prayer yet retains Coverdale's Great Bible version. - In oone of history's great ironies, the 3rd + 5th ed. of the Great Bible notte that they have been "overseen and perused" by Bishop Tunstall. Tunstall knew he was authorizing a Bible that relied heavily on Tyndale's translations, yet under King Henry's command he was forced to sanction the work he had once * [inserted] *tried so hard to abolish. [end inserted]

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The Bible (Geneva version). London: Robert Barker (d. 1645) 1610 4^0 Ref: Herbert 303 S.T.C. 2210 OT 1608 NT 1610 See #327 #552

folio 194 O.T. Nehemiah 12:47 - 13:31 Esther 1:1 - 1:21 Bb2

HEHL 61454 Herbert 293 THe Bible. 1608. folio 194 BB2 (of 8) my leaf matches except "twentie" instead of "twenty" Esther folio 194 to folio 197 (Bb5) O.T., N.T., + Tables all dated 1608 + pritned by R. Barker.

-1611 was the epochal year in which the 1st ed. of the King James Version of the Bible appeared, + just as the Geneva version replace that of the Great Bible, the King James supplanted the Geneva. - Bible. English 1616. Folio London: Robert Barker - this is the last Geneca Bible that was pritned in England + Brings to an end the printing of Pruitan Bibles in that country. Herbert 348. - Geneva Bible - between 1560 + 1640 not less than 150 editions were printed. - 1615 - the last quarto Geneva Bible pritned in England.

Issued in a smaller, more convenient format than its predecessors, the Geneva Bible was produced by Protestant refugees in Switzerland, after having fled the Roman Catholic persecution in England under Queen Mary. THis was the 1st English Bible to use cerse divisions + the 1st to be printed in Roman type. WIlliam Whittingham's N.T. appeared in 1557; the complete Bibel in which he had assistance from Anthony Gilby + Thomas Sampson in 1560. For well over half a century this was the Bible most read by Englishmen + most often reprinted. Because of its conncections with Calvinism, it was especially favored by the Puritans. - The Geneva Bible + John Foxe's Book of Martyrs were the two most popular books in Elizabethan England.

Quarto - this is the most ocmmon format in which the Geneva Bible was printed; it served for many years as the family Bible for Puritans + Presbyterians throughout the British Isles + in America as well.

536 Andrew Stewart Helpringham, England Dec. '00

Vargilius Maro, Publius (BC. 70 - BC. 19) Aeneis (Italian)' Le fatezze de Enea. Viconza: Hermannus Liechtenstein (Levilapris) See #336 #45 #503 #309 12 March 1476 Ref: C 6162 = 2440 Pr 7143 BMC VII 1036 Fogg V.201 Copy: HEHL, LC, PML, U Cal Bl, Prin UL

L'Eneida in prosa volgare ridotta. a-i Klm8n6, 102 leaves, the 1st blank. 9a: 23 liens, 130x84mm. Captial spaces, 4b-text. Type: 114R^1 (P2) large heavy text type.' Single Qu, the Q dropping below the line end with nearly flat tail is normal. WIde E with serifs. Right shank of h sloped, several long single hyphens. Used in 1475, 76, 77 + finally in 1479

Come Enca ariuo ai lidi de le scrofide Book III et tre le brutte arpie. d3 (of 8)

- First ed. of any part of the noblest Roman poet in a modern language. - The work is a paraphrase of Aeneid in Italian prose each book being preceded by the Latin metrical synopsis found in many early ed. and by the first 4 lines of Vergil's text, with a large capital space left beside the latter. The concluding sections carry the story to the oundation of Rome

HEHL 98646 before - Come P corruptioe de larie. Enea si parti dunp rub. in red + blue paese doue elli nauea edificata una citte. after - come passati molti scogli riuarono a una isola doue lascio Enea 10 scundo nel tempio.

Hermannus Liechtenstein - first work, 1475 - printed 6 books by 12 March of the following year. Vicenza, 1478-80 (7 editions) Partner of Hamman at Venice in 1482.

on a2 (verso) Qui parla la natione elle fatezze de Enea. my leaf is from Liber Tertius Begins on c8 (of 8) ends on e1 (of 8)

-total Duodecimus (12) books Virgil completed the Aeneid only months before his death, + it was to become known as his greatest work, going through hundreds of editions from the earliest years of printing to the present day.

H. Liehtenstein, the second printer of Viceinza + like his predecessor there a native of Cologne began his career as a printer in Vicinza, printing a few books in Treviso in 1477, returning to Viceinza, + finally settling in Venice.