Farfel Research Notebooks

537 Jeffrey Mancovice Worcester, MA Feb. '01 $50

Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) See #232 416 202 579 621 [Latin:] Stultifera navis (Tr. Jacobus Locher (1471-1528) Philomusus). Additions by Thomas Beccadelli) Basel: Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 March 1498 4^0 Ref: Goff B 1091 H 3751 Pell 2823 GW 5062 Copy: B Mawr CL, NYPL, PML, LC, Col UL

a-s^8 s^5 t-x^4 164 leaves, foliated, 30 lines. Printed marginalia Types: 2: 220G (title + headings) 1: 109 R (text) 3: 77 R (pritned side notes) 118 large woodcut illust. of which 3 full page, cut by various artists, at least 75 after Albrecht Durer. 109 - broad Roman type with flat G. In use throughout. 79 small Roman type. In use 1494-8, outer strokes slanting in M, upright in N 220 large Gothic type. In use 1497-9. -2nd enlarged Latin edition, with additional poems by Brant T. Beccadelli. The woodcuts of this edition like those of Bergemann's 1st enlarged edition, published exactly 1 year earlier, inclued the original cuts from the 1st German ed. printed by Bergmann in 1494, with about a dozen additional cuts from Bergmann's second German ed. (1495), 1st Latin ed. (1 March 1497) + 1st enlarged Latin ed. (1 Aug. 1497) - The 1st, and the most significant translation of the Narrenschiff is the Latin rendering of J. Locher, Brant's won pupil + protege. This translation was done with the direct collaboration of Brant himeslf. In fact, Brant personally made important contributions to this work. Lochner's Stultifera navis however is a very free adaptation of Brant's Nauenschift + not a translation. Being in Latin, it strives to appear more learned, contains for more classical allusions than did Brant's original + frequently shifts the emphasis.

One of Brant's closes friends in Basel was his former fellow student, J. Bergmann von Olpe of Westphalia Interested in the new trade of printing Bergmann took it up in order to disseminate the ideas of his circle of friends. He learned the trade in the shop of Michael Furter. Brant's Nauenshiff was perhaps the 1st product of his shop. - Brant, German humanist + satirist, who was professor of Jurisprudence at Basel, is best known for his extremely popular Nauenschiff, 1st published by Bergmann in German in 1494 In the form of an allegory - a ship of fools steered by fools to a fool's paradise of Nanagonia - Brant spares no vitriol in attacking the vices + weakness of the times. He lases out against abuses of the church + in many ways paves the way for the coming Protestant Revolution. - J. Bergamnn de Olpe - at one time archdeacon in the cathedral of Granfelden (Grandval)

538 First Folio Paris, Texas Feb. '01 $150

Jacob Twinger von Konigshoven (1346-1420) * Chrionica Augsburg: Johann Bamler, about 1476? f0 Ref: H 9791 Goff K-38 Pr 1619 BMC II 335 Copy: UN CaL (76ff) Munchen BSB, BM.

h8 (of 10) [a-h10 i12 k-r10 s12] 184 leaves, the 1st blank 2b: 30 lines, 207x125mm Cap. spaces with guide letters Type: 138 (P2) tall, narrow + pointed German text type, notable for the length of its f + f First used in 1473. In 1475 + 6 Bamler used the type in alternate sections in 3 books. Bamler d. um 1508.

Bamler, Johann Chronik von allen Kaisern und Konigen und Papsten Augsburg: J. Bamler, 12, 25 + 18 Oct. 1476 Ref: H. 9792 BMC II 334 GW 3163 (27-29 lines) Goff B-8 Copy: UNCaL, PML, New L, Aarau Kant. B. Munchen SB

a-h10 i4-1 k-n10 op8 q12-1 r-t10 vx8. 196 leaves, the last blank 3a: 29 lines, 201x130mm; 5a 29 lines 201x124mm. 71a: 28 lines 195x124mm Types: 138, leaves 1-70 140, leaves 71 - end. 4 full page woodcuts Capitals (1a, 2)

J. Twinger continued + extended the chronicle of Fritsche Closmer, his contryman. Twinger wrote 3 versions, the longest being found here. It includes a universal history from Adam to Alexander, a history of the Roman church + that of Alsace + Strassburg. It is ntoable as an early example of a detailed local history.

539 Andrew Steward Helpringham, England March '01 $40

Marchesinus, Johanna (15th C [crossed out] c 1300 [end crossed out]) Mammotrectus super Biblian See #95 #363 #234 Cologne: Conrad Winters de Homborch, 24 Dec. 1476 f0 Ref: Goff M-235. HC 10556 Polain (B) 2604 Pr 1162 BMC I, 245 Copy: HEHL, LC

206 leaves, I, 76 + 206 blank. 2 col. 3a: 40 lines. Sane sig. 199 x 140mm. 2 to 4 + 6 line spaces left for capitals. Type: 99 - text type, in use throughout. 2 forms of h. Haebler M4.

end of Evangelium mathei. Cap. 23-28 Prologium in Marcum. begins Evangelium Marci. Ca. 1-5

J. Machesinus was a Franciscan Friar of Reggio. THe Mammotrectus was composed about 1466 as a popular exposition of Biblical phrases + the prologues of St. Jerome to the Vulgate. It also contains 2 tracts on orhtography + accents and a tract on feasts + festivals and one on the rules of the Friars. Marchesinus goes through the Bible chapter by chapter explaining difficult words + solving conundrums, sometimes imaginatively - the opening of Genesis, for example, leads him ot discourse on emeralds + crystal, the stuff of paradise. He expatiates on the Psalms, breifly covers the legends of the saints + such knotty questions as the Hebrew months. His audience of the ecclesiastical rank 2 file seems to have found his work useful for it was printed at least 8 times, first by P. Schoeffer in Mainz in 1470.

HEHL 103865 rub. in red but not the same as my leaf m8 (of 8) (middle fo volume) Marcum Cap. 1-16 on m8 and n1 then Luccam Cap. 1-24) - the last 2 folios are index ("prefatio") as per my leaf #234.

540 James DeRosa Boardman, OHio May '01 $18.00

Culpeper, Nicholas (1616-1654) The English Physitian Enlarged: with three hundred, sixty, and nine medicines made of English herbs that were not in any impression until this.... Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation.... 8^0 London: Peter Cole, 1653 Ref: Wing 7502 Copy:Yale

p. 75,76 Costmary, or Alecost, or Balsom Herb. Cudweed or Cotton-Weed. Cowslips or Peagles

Compared with 1684 ed. at Stanford Same exact pages (75+6) with only minor differences in orthography. -369 Medicines made of English Herbes. - An Alphabetical Table of all the Herbs + Plants in this book begins p. 1 - Amara-dulcis (Bitter -sweet, Felon wort) ends p. 270 - Yarrow (Nosebleed, Thousand-leaf) - Section 1 - Of gathering, drying + keeping simples + thin juyces - Section 2 Of making + keeping compounds - ends p. 285 - Table of Diseases.

p. 74 (before) Coral-wort (Tooth-wort, Tooth Violet, Dogteeth Violet + Dentaria) p. 77 (after) Crabs-Claws (Water- Senareen, Knights Pond-wort, Water Houseleek, Pond - Weed, + Fresh - Water Soldier.

Peter Cole - bookseller + pritned in London (1637-65) SOme tiem in 1643 Cole himself added printing to his bookselling business. Printing press in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange (1643-65) Dec. 4 1665 "hanged himselfe in his warehouse in Leadenfolle; reported to be diestracted." - Culpepper incurred the wrath of the College of Physicians for his unauthorized but accurate + highly popular books. According to Garrison, the 1st medical book pritned in the Colonies "appears to have been a duodecimo (1708) reprint of N. Culpepper's English Physician."

HEHL 356672 - Culpepper. The English Physitian. London: Peter Cole 1652. text same as 1653 ed. p. 37 Comfry 37 Costmary, or Alecost (Jupiter) p. 38 Cudweed, or Cottonweed (in this ed listed under Saturn) Cowslips (Venus) p. 39 Sciatica begins with Adders Tongue then Water - Cresses Agrimony Cross wort ends with Yarrow

Costmary (Chrysanthemum Balsamita, L.) The leaves are very fragrant - Used in the Middle Ages for strewing on floors + scenting the washing water at meals. Was sometimes called Alecost because of its importance in flavoring ale + beer.

541 Phil Barber Boston, Mass. May '01 $5.50

Mancinellus, Antonius (1452-Velletri - 1506 Rome ca.) Opera.

[crossed out] Lyons: JEan de Vingle, July 1, 1500 4^0 Ref: Hain 10577, Brunet 1353. Baudrier XII p. 208. Panzer IV, 352 D. Reichline V, 183. Copy: Florence, National, Ed. Magl. A. 5. 12 Basel UB Thesaurus varie constructionis (A-V)

Baudrier Gothic a 2 col. de 316 ff. n. chiff., sign. a-z8, A-P8 Q-R6 40 lines a la page, manchettes. (side notes) - Nat. U. Cat. 3221. - Microfilm, Univ. CA, Berkeley; Univ. of Brit. Columbis, Vancouver.

Jean de Vingle - born at Abbeville en Picardie. Imprimeur et libraire a Lyon .... 1492, t apres le 5 Oct. 1513.

Mancinellus fame rests on his editing the Ars minor of Donatus Aelius, Roman grammarian of the 4th C, tutor fo St. Jerome. This Ars grammatica became as popular as a school book that in the Middle Ages its authors name (Donatus) was used for any rudimentary grammer Donatus Melior - term coined by Mancinellus for his ed. of the 'Rudimenta grammatices' Ars minor, made for his sons. - See Goff D-348 - 350. A. Mancinellius - Italian philologist, humanist. -J de Vingle - although the 1st books to bear De Vingle's name is the French Belial July 19, 1494 he is generally assumed to have been at work as ealry as 26 Nov. 1492. His press was continuously active from the ealry parts of 1494 until well into the 16th C

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* Mancinellus, Antonius Opera Grammatica 4^0 Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1501. (1722) Ref: Panzer VI p 174, Maittaine II p. 174 Annales Typographici Grasse IV p. 359 Copy: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich (4 L. Lat. 307) - At the death of Bernhard Richel in 1482, his son-in-law N. Kessler took over the press. Under Kesler the press became one fo the most important in Basel producing predominantly theological, homilitic + Canoniccal texts. Kesler was still printing in 1510 + alive as late as 1519. Type 70 (P. 10) Diamonded A + S, letters plain -used from 1491.

Large woodcut with symbols of the 4 evangelists on title page

Panzer VI Basel 248 Blatt 249 ff Grammatica Antonii Mancinelli Emblemata quatuor Evangelistarum ligno incisa. Haec in fonte fol. I. a. Fol. 2a. Antonii Mancinelli opera in hoc volumine contenta. Donatus melicor/ Mancinelli Vigilantia castigatus - Proprietates covum ex probatissimis collecte autoribus. In fine: Opera Antonii Mancinelli Veliterni in Grammaticam: quorum tituli in fontispicio huius libri, continentur finiunt feliciter per Nicolaum Kesler caractere nitido et correctura ex actissima Basilee elaborata Anno a partu virginis Millesimo quingentesimo primo.

See also in NU Cat 1) Basel: N. Kesler, 1503 Panzer VI p. 176 4^0 21cm. copy: Lib. or Congress, Harvard Univ. (294 leaves) 2) Basel: N. Kesler, 1508 Panzer VI p 183 4^0 copy: Univ of Ill., Urbana sig. a-z, A-I

542 Phil Berber Boston, Mass May '01 $16.00

Martialis, Marcus Valerius (c. AD 41 - c. 104) Epigrammata. (Comm: Domitius Calderinus) c. 1444 - 78 See #421 482 Venice: Baptista de Tortis, July 17, 1485. f^0 Ref: Goff M-308 HC 10819 BMC V 324 Oates 1843 Copy: NYPL, LC, Harv CL P

a-u8 xy6. 172 leaves. 4^a. 631. of comm. surrounding the text. 245x156mm Capitals spaces. Types: 114 R* [P1] text type on large body. Separate Q The 3 horizontals of E are of equal length. T with wide foot. Medium single sloping hyphen. In use 1485-86 78 R [P2] comm. type. Introduced for use with 114 R In use in 1481-86, 1490.

Tortis - 1st book assignable belong to the year 1481 - continued his production beyond the end of the century.

Book X, 4-7

Calderinus was papal secretary under Sixtus IV and professor of Rhetoric at Rome, where he numbered among his pupils Aldus Manutius, Sabellicus + Politian. Martial was teh 1st to shape the epigram into its present accepted literary form, + throughout the Renaissance numerous editions fo his Epigrammata were published attesting to its wide popularity. There remains lttle question that these early editions exerted a profound influence on the Western literarure that followed. The Epigrammata is a significant document in the history of teh printed world as well, in