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Biblia Germanica [For J. Rinmann]. Augsburg: Silvan Ormar, 1518 Jan. 27, Feb 12. f0 See #216 Ref: Muther (972) p. 5. BMC (1965) XVII Col. 250, Geisberg plate #21 Cop: BM imperfect Vol 2 only, Yale Proctor 10763 Panzer Anoralem I: p. 410 #888

801 leaves. 2 col. 45 lines, 6 1/4 x 9 3/4" Black Letter 14th German Bible.

O.T./ Apocrypha {Das buch Thobie Judith

This Bible (1518) appeared only a few months after Luther (Oct. 1517) had published his (95) theses. But it belonged to the series of editions of the German tranls. made in about 1350 + 1st printed by Mentelin at Strassburg in 1466. This transl. was not made from the original languages, but only from the Vulgate, + was moreover - despite several revisions, esp. in 1475 + 1483 - clumsy in its linguistic form + partly incomprehensible. Hence it answered neither of Luther's 2 requirements for such a translation, that it should be based on the original texts + should use a German comprehensible to all.

The apocryphal books are those which were not included in the Hebrew canon of Scripture, but were accepted by Hellenistic Jews + taken over by the early Church as part of the Septuagent. In Greek + Latin Bibles they were mostly interspersed among the canonical books. Protestant practive, when it does not omit them altogether, has been to put them as a separate block between the Old + New Testaments. (Luther + Zurich) Coverdale has the Apocrypha "in bloc" between the Testaments, except Baruch which he places after Jeremiah Types 3 + rounded canon = Otmar, J. 26 7 - large round = Otmar, J. 14 10 - large text schwabacher = Otmar, J. 17

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Alexander Magnus (356-323 B.C.) King of Macedon. Historia Alexandri Magni [German] Adapted by Johann Hartleib. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, 8 June 1478 f0 (4.) Ref: Goff A-404 h. 786 Pell 451 IGI 297 GW 885 Reichling 375 Muther 79 Schr 3133 Cop: LC (R) Brussel BR, Gottingen UB Murchen SB Paris BN, Wien N.B. Zurich 156 leaves a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35 lines.. Type:2 BI. 85 Init: a, e, k 29 woodcuts 2nd edition of this work. in German my leaf 4 d, woodcut capitals D, I, J.

Schr 3133 - Alexander der Grosse. Frontispice: Alexander tourne vers la droite. Deux reglettes 191:135 - Les autres 28 g. s. b. sont identique a celles du Bamler 1473 Hains 785 sauf 2.

A. Sorg was a prolific printer, + some 180 books from his press are recorded between 1475 + 1493. A high proportion fo these are in German, + in sum they give considerable insight into the interests of the literate classes of the German states. Most of these vernacular books are also illustrated.

Muther 79 THe Histori des grossen Alexanders which was 1st printed by Barnler was reprinted 4 times by Sorg in 1478, 80, 83 + 86. The title page illust. (190x132) is different form that in the Bamler ed. The rest of the illust. (80x115) are the same is those in Bamler, with some using Bamler's woodcuts + some being copied onto wood anew.

4th ed. GW 886 H. 788 Goff A-405 5 June 1480. 2o 156 leaves, a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35l. Type 2. Init: a, e 28 woodcuts Copy: Gottingen UB (incomplete). Muchen SB, Zurich ZB. Cleveland Public Lib, Cleveland, Ohio. 15 Jan. 1483. 4o 156 leaves, a10-o10 p8 q8 33-35;. type 2, 3 Init: a, e, k. 28 woodcuts Copy: Muchen SB (incomplete. Wein (Liecht). BM 5th ed. GW 887 H. 789 Goff A-406 BMC II 350 attributed by BM to Eusebius. f0. 33 lines (198x124mm.) Types: 140 headings + colophon - title type, used continuously from 1481, 2 forms of E. 118 (120) text. [inserted] large German text type introduced 1478. [end inserted] Capitals (Ib(5), 2). with woodcuts.

2 forms of A, D + E are common. GW 887a 1486.2^0 Nicht nacht weisbar. Schreiber 3137

The Alexander story perhaps the most popular Greek romance, is an enlarged + interpolated version (Goff A-398) of the mid 10th C. Latin translation of Leo Archi presbyter of Naples his patron Duke John III who became aquainted with the Greek source on an embassy to Constantinople. The tale of Alexander the Great, his Life, heroic deeds, adventures + death became one of the most popular story books of the Middle Ages. As the subject of epics in verse + prose, it appears in all European literatures.

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Biblia Germanica. Die gantze Bibel der vrspranglichen Ebraischen und Griechischen waarheyt nach, auffs aller treuwlichest vertewtschet. Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1531. Ref: Darlow + Moule #4196 Cop: [crossed out] HEHL [end crossed out], American Bible Soc. BM>. Das Buch / Der Psalmen ddiij XXVII xliiii (45) psalm - xlviii (49)

A new ed. of the Zurich Bible (see #4194). In this + subsequent editions, a fresh translation is given of the books Job - Song of Solomon. The long preface is generally ascribed to Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), the eminent Reformer of Zurich who was killed in the fight of Cappel, 11 Oct. 1531. - 678 ff. Text in double col. with 50 lines to a full col. Margins contain references, subject headings + a few short notes. Many small woodcuts occur throughout the volume. (347x240mm.) Froschouer printed many other ed. of this Zurich Bible: 1534(4^0) 1536(f^0) 1540, 39 (f^0) 1542 (4^0) 1545 (f^0) 1548 (f^0) + (4^0) 1549 (8^0) 1552 (4^0) 1560 (f^0)

D. + M. #4194 1529. Das Allt Testament [Das New Testament] 1527, 29 16^0, 6 vols. 1st ed. of the Zurich or Swiss-German Bible - prepared by ministers of the Church in Zurich. Owing to the delay in the completion of Luther's translation, various 'combined' Bibles were issued giving those portions hitherto put forth by Luther, supplemental by versions fo the remainder by other translations. THis complete Zurich Bible presents all the portionshitherto published by Luther viz. Genesis - Song of Solomon + the N.T. slightly revised + adapted throughout to the Swiss dialect.

The Zurich Bible was reprinted with some alteration, in one folio vol. by P. Schoeffer: Worms in 1529. - Coverdale did not translate directly from Hebrew + Greek. His modest preface sparks of lovely + faithfully following his interpreters, 5 in number. They were the Vulgate, Pagnini's Latin Version of 1528. Luther's German, the Zurich Bible in the 1531 + 34 ed. + Tyndale, or, if Tyndale was not counted, Erasmus's Latin version. Text 1) Gen - Bel. + the Dragon. 342 ff. 2) Job - Rev. with separate title. Das ander teyl. ff. 2-322.

The most famous Zurich printer of the 16th C was C. Froschauer., a native of Ottingen in Bavaria. He was parbably the son of Hans F. who had worked at Augsburg from 1494 to 1507. In 1519 he became a citizen of Zurich + set up his press there in 1521. Froschauer was quick to print Luther's Bible + his 1st ed. came out in 3 folio vol. 1524-29. In the following year he brought out a 2nd ed. in a single volumem octavo + in 1531 the 3rd ed. , revised, in 1 folio volume embellished with many woodcuts. Through the major part of the text was that of Luther, some parts were newly translated by the preachers of Zurich. A 4th ed. quarto without illustrations appeared in 1534.

C. Froschauer, uncle (d. 1564) + nephew (d. 1590) The elder Froschauer was a keen partisan of Zwingli, all of whose writings appeared under his punning imprint of the 'frog on the meadow' Among the 900 titles issued by the Froschauers some 500 were of a religious character. WIth J. Stumpf's History of the Swiss Confederation with 4000 illus. (1548) Froschauer scored a deserved popular success in a different field.

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Innocentius IV, Pont. Max. (Sinibaldo Fieschi) d. 1254 Apparatus super libros Decretalium Strassburg: Heinrich Eggestein; 1478 f^0 (Ed. by Andreas Hartmanni) Ref: Goff I-95 HC 9191 IGI 5153 Pr 267 BMC I 69 Cop: HEHL, LC, PML, UN CaL

466 leaves, I, 59+466 blank. 2 col. 60 lines 276x169mm Types: 93 (P. 5) 3rd small text type. Used form about 1475 onwards. One to 101. spaces left for capitals. The contents of each leaf are shortly noted at the top.

a copy of Eggestein's 1st 451. Bible has the date 24 May 1466. The last date connected with any book is 1482.

Innovent IV (Pontificate 1243-1254) a legal scholar + his chief work being a Commentary, the Apparatus on the Decretals of Gregory IX.

1st ed. Includes the commentary on Innocent IV by Baldus de Ubaldis, known as 'Margarita' or 'Innocenciarus' + also a printed table fo contents, both which the 2nd ed. from Venice lacks - Goff I-96. (1481). The preface explicitly staes that the Apparatus was intended for reading in the schools but that some of the most intricate points were better reserved for private discussions in chamber.

HEHL (104646) my leaf folio 28. C8 (of 10) rubricated in red LIber I De postulacione prelatorum then De electione et electi potestate. hubrica. this copy starts on G 2 (of 10) "Incipit Apparatus...." Liber II begins A marked folio 133 III " aa " " 245 IV ' ' AA " " 327 total of 5 books V then, folio 410 begins "repeat oriuz super Innocecio Edituz ab Gregioi ac excellentissimo -"

John of Plano Carpine (Plano Carpini) a Franciscan monk of Italian origin sent by Pope Innocentius IV on a journey to Mongolia that took 2 years (1246-48).

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Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max. (1294-1303) (formerly Benedetto Gaetano) Liber sextus Decretalium. (With gloss of Johannes Andreae) Edited with additions by Hieronymous Clarius. Add: Johannes Andreae: Super aiboribus consang initatis et affintatis, together with Clemens V: Constitutiones; the 'Summaria' + 'Divisiones fo Andreae Domisicus de Sancto Germiniano, + others; and the Decretales extravagantes communes selectae.'

See #483 Venice: Baptista de Tortis, I) 2 May 1496; II 9 May 1496. f^0 (super royal) Ref: Goff B-1009 H. 3621 IGI 1986 BMC V 329 GW 4895 Copy: HEHL #104630, Muchen UB, Frankfurt a M S+B (catalogue #678)

a-n8; A-E8, F-H6. 162 leaves, the last blank, 4-104 + 106-161 numbered 4-104 + 2-57. 2 col. 4^a 82 lines of gloss enclosing the text, + headline, 337(346)x 233-5mm. Types: 185 G; 95 G; 82G. Red printed Lombards, also spaces, some with guide letters. A close reprint of the 1494 ed.

Type 185 G - heavy angular title + heading type. Large double corssed V. In use in + after 1493 (not read in 1491 ed) 95 G - law text type. In use in + after 1491 82 G - small law tyep, the most noticible feature of which is the crooked M. In use in 1490-98/9 normally with 95 G Liber. / Quintus De electione 7 electi potestate. 50. -

The first books assignable to the press of De Tortis belong to the year 1481. He continued production beyond the end of the century. B. de Tortis was more skillful as a printer than some of his contemporaries who now have a higher reputation. Bunger names 180 books pritned by him between 1480 + 1500. For the printing of law books, hothic types only were used of which he possessed more than a dozen fonts.

Gratian's Decretum - 1140. 1234 - Gregory IX The Extravagants (Extravagant, because extra vagantes, wandering outside the Decretum of Gratian) - consists of 1971 items divided into 5 books 1) Sources of Law 2) Procedure in the Spiritual courts 3) The rights + duties of the clergy + religious communities 4) Marriage 5) Moral offences + their Rx + punishment, with an appendiz on legal rules + aphorisms. 1298 .. Boniface VIII - a further collection of the decretals issued after the reign of Gregory IX - divided into 5 books with the same titles as those in the Extravagants - known as the Sext - the 6th book after the 5 of Pope Gregory's collection. 1314/7 - Pontificate (1305-1314) - Clement V published the Clementine Constitutions with the same arrangement into 5 books. Extravagants of John XXII containing 20 constitutions of the Pope. Extravagants Communes - a series of 70 decretals of various Popes between 1294 + 1484. - all these were published as the Corpus Juris Cononici by Jean Chapius in 1503.

Bonifacius VIII (reigned 1294-1303) (c. 1235-1303) was surely the only Pope to be besieged in the Tower of London. WIth Cardinal Otto boni who was to aid Henry III of England against the bishops of the baronial party, he was trapped there by the rebellious earl of Gloucester, but rescued by Edward I in 1267. Johannes Andreae - Juris consult at Padova, Pisa + Bologna born at Mingello about 1275, died at Bologna in 1348. -Boniface VIII was the most famous of all popes bearing this name, Dante described him as the "Prince of the Pharisees."

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Rolewinck, Wernes. (1425-1502) Fasiculus temporum (Bundle of the Ages) Lyons: Mathias Huss, not before 1495. 4^0 Ref: Goff R-277 C. 2437 Oates 3195 Pr 8570 BMC VIII 265 Cop: HEHL, LC, UN CaL, PhFL Eiiij (of 8) Sexta etas Christus. Folium XXXVI. 1994 copy at $4,000 98 leaves, the last blank, 7-97 numbered Folium I-XC LXXXVII, with errors in the last quire. Table in 3 columns. (47-50) 48 lines + headline ('Pro hemium'), 181(190)x120mm Types 140 G. title + headlines, 1st lines of prologue + text; 76 G Capital spaces in table + occasionally elsewhere. The headline give the number + titles of each 'etas' on the verso + the foliation on the rectos woodcuts. Diagrams. a6; A-K8 LM6 The text proper ends with notes on the death of M. Corvinus in 1490. 16 small woodcuts [inserted] (including Noah's Ark + Tower of Babel) [end inserted] including 5 repeats + 1 larger cut of Christ on 43a, besides a number of diagrams.

Type 140 G (P. 10) title + heading type. Haebler's M 96 In use in + after 1489.

76 G - narrow upright text type. B, C, E, G, Z souble shanked. Curly tailed h. In use 1490-95. W. Rolewinck was a Carthusian aurhor of over 50 works of theological + historical subjects He was a saintly as well as a scholarly man. He died of the plague while ministering to his brother monks so stricken.

In this ed. the invention of printing is found on the verso of M3, in a long paragraph.

BMC VIII 266 Rolewinck, W. Fasiculus temporum (in the French translation of Piere Farget) after May 1498 f^0 u-m8 96 leaves. 30 small cuts including 19 repeats + 2 large woodcuts.