Farfel Research Notebooks

441 Los Angeles Dawson's Feb. '96 $100

Arabic manuscript. (18 or 19th C?) folio. 21x30 cm. Persia - 17th C.? - no watermark. Written in a clear naskhi script on cream colored paper. 31 lines, 1 column, black ink with headings in red. Margins frayed somewhat. recto - 2 plants in colors, within red borders. -(frames) verso - 1 plant in colors.

Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence (Ajaib al-Makhlukat.) - in some form of recension. al-Kazwini (1302-83).

- Tabaristan - the name applied by the Arabs to Mazandaran, a province of Persia, north of mount Alburz (land of Tabar). - The work is a 'cosmography', a literary genre which became popular in the 13th C + which attempts to sum up the scientific knowledge of the period - composed about 1270 at Wasit near Baghdad. The text became extremely popular from the 16th up to the 19th C + appeared in both Persian + Ottoman Turkish translations.

- The work is divided inot 2 parts. The 1st part contains an extensive introduction to the heavely bodies + the inhabitants of heaven (ie. angels) + concludes with a chapter on chronology. The *2nd portion describes sublunar phenomena + elements, natural history + finally man. The book also contains geographical details such as descriptions of major seas, rivers, islands + mountains.

Zakariya b. Muhammab b. Mahmudal - Kamuni alQazwini was born AH 600 (1203 AD) in Kazwin in Persia, + spent some years in Damascus before settling, in Irak where he became Kadi of Wasit + Hilla. He died AH 682 (1283 AD) He wrote 2 compilatory works a Cosmology + a Geography, both of which becaem the classic works of their type within Arabic culture, spread in many manuscripts + several times translated from Arabic into Persian + Turkish.

442 Heritage Los Angeles Feb '96 $125

Plutarchus. (c 46AD - after 120 AD). Vitae illustrium virorum. (Vitae parallelae). See #470 Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 2 Jan 1478. f^0 Ref: Goff P-832 HC 13127 Polain(B) 3212 Pr 4113 BMC V 178 Cop: HEHL, LC, NYPL, U Cal BL, WArtGL, New L

Translated by various hands. BMC V 178 - VOl. I. 233 leaves the 1st blank (a^10 b^12-1 c-m^10 n^8 o-x^10 yzz^8) Vol II. 226 leaves. 3^a: 50 lines, 280x160mm Types: 115 (111)R. Capital spaces with guide letters at the beginning of each life. large text tyep. Single Qu. Rather broad H. Upright of d extends slightly below the line. Det of i ot rt. of letter. SIngle sloping hyphen. Straight tailed y. HEHL 43413 not rubricated. my leaf i^* (of 10) folio 86 matches this copy Periclis Viri Illustris Vita Ex Plutarcho Graeco In Latinum per Lapum Florentinum Versa. begins folio 82 h^10 before Camilli ends folio 90 i8 after Fabii Maximi Vol 1st - Thesei. this copy - 41.5x27cm. last - Sertorii.

- Third ed. the first printed by Jenson. Plutarch - Greek philosopher, biographer + essayist of the 1st + 2nd C. AD. THe lives are character studies of 50 distinguished Greeks + Romans of whom 46 are arranged roughly chronologically in pairs (1st a Greek, then a Roman, finally a comparison) Pericles - Athenian statesman of the 5th C. B.C. (c 495 BC - 429)

Shakespeare relied almost exclusively on Plutarch for the historical background of ancient Rome. Plutarch is the some from, which he took the plots, + in many cases the characterization + diction, of all his "classical" plays. This borrowing is most evident in Anthony + Cleopatra +

Coriolanus where not only are the plots taken straight from Plutarch; but many of the speeches are merely North's tranlation versified. The most striking examples of this are Euobarus' description of Cleopatra's barge, and the great scene between mother + son at the end of Coriolanus. "Jenson's roman types have been the accepted models for roman letters ever since he made them, +, tepeatedly copied in our own day, have never been equalled" Updike.

Giovanni Antonio Campano (1429-74) edited the 1st complete Latin translation of the PParallel Lives which was printed around 1470 at the press of Ulrich Han (Rome) N. Jenson issued a 3rd printing of Campano's edition of the complete Parallel Lives in 1478. THe editio princeps of the original Greek followed the Latin printings in 1517 at the Gianta press in Florence.

443 A Heritage Los Angeles Feb. '96 $50

Bernardus Claravellensis, Saint (1090-1153) Opuscula. Modena: Dominicus Rocociolus, July 8, 1491. 4^0 See #240 Ref: Goff B-363 H 2921 Polain(B) 597 Pr 7197 BMC VII 1062. GW. 3906 Haebler Italian leaves #26. ??folio 7 Copy: HEHL, LC, WArtGL, BMaw CL, Murich, Augsburg St B.

a-m^8 n^6 o^4. 106 leaves, the 1st blank. 3^a: (30-31) 30 lines. 137x93mm Cpaital spaces, with guide letters; printed captials I on 276 Contents listed in table on 106^a. (P1) - Type: 91 G. - Text tyep with ornate capitals. Round-bowled 9 + wide curved 7. Medium single hyphen, not in regular use Heavy C used in + after Oct. 1489. In use throughout - 2nd edition. Rocociolus - printed until 1506 being succeded by his nephew Antonio who kept the office going until 1521. is first mentioned in teh Aesop of 19 May 1481 (H. 294) pritned at his expense, while he is 1st mentioned as a pritner on his own account in the Gregorius, Dialogi of Nov. 10 of the same year. This is followed by 1 tract in 1482 + another in 1483, after which Rocociolus is not heard from again until his partnership with Miscomni in 1487-9. From Sept. 1489 to the end of the century his name recurs in every year except 1493, 1497 + 1499. -5th pritner in Modena; 1st, Johann Burster, of Kempten, from Mantova (2nd press). (Mantua)

84818 HEHL rubricated in red + blue my leaf a^7 (of 8) incipit tractus primus de vijs vite sancti Bernardi abbatis (begins a^2 - ends a^6) incipit scd's Bernardi de viis vite. (begins a^6 - ends b^2)

De viis vitae b3a De ordine vitae et morum institutione. d2a De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. f4b Meditationes de homme interiori. h3b Sermo de miseria humana. h6a Planctus B.M.M. i3b Contemplatione de Passione Iesu Christi secundum horas canonicas. k5b Epistola ex persona Heliae monachi ad parentes. k6b Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei. [de vita solitaria..]

443 B Andrew Stewart helpringham, England March '96 $200

Horae [1511]. 8^0 Use of Rome.... Paris: Antoine Virard. Ref: Macfarlane #251 Copy: BM. (C41 d2, on vellum) leaf 5, of gathering B.

Collation: 100 unnumbered leaves; sig 93^8, aa^8, c-i^8, A-B^8, C^4, a^8 28 lines to a full page. end: miserrimo peccatori. Pater hoster. Aue masie. FINIS. Almanack for the years, 1503-20. 16 large cuts 13.5x20.5cm.

Proctor type 11 - 20lines = 95-6mm - of this type, 4 varieties occur. Printed on vellum. Red ruled. Rubricated in gold paint on red + blue grounds (small initials, line fillers) Most capitals heightened with yellow wash. 7 line colored in miniature [inserted] - an uncolored woodcut in B.M. copy [end inserted] of "The Man of Sorrows" - a bloodstained Christ showing the woulds on his breast + writsts + wearing the crown of thorns, held by an angel. - THe theme of the Man of Sorrows seems to have appeared first in 14th C. Manuscripts in which the dead Christ was heald by one or more angels. -Multiple - piece full page historiated borders with captions -Text in Latin + French. 20 lines = 95 6 mm.

The earliest woodcut Horae known was issued by Verard, 6th Feb. 1485/6. "Christ en douleur." Gen xii - Offering of Isaac. John 19 - The Crucifixion.

A professional calligrapher + miniature - painter, Verard was one of the 1st to realize the commercial possibilities of printing for the prodcution of Books of Hours. His pioneer efforts were quickly followed by numerous examples published by himself, Simon Vostre, Jean du

Pre, Philippe Pigouchet + their followers + rivals. Verard employed various printers ot print certain of his books, but the bulk of them were produced in an establishment of his own. The later of the Verard Horaw (beginning with Aug. 10 1498) contain illustrations imitated from Pigouchet. (16th C illustrations - 5 sets.) -Verard publications 1) Books of devotion 2) Books of chicalry 3) Poems + light literature 4) Quasi - scientific books 5) Translations of the classics. - in one respect, he is without a rival - in the sumptious illuminated vellum copies produced for his royal + other distinguished patrons. (Charles VIII, Louis XI, Anne of Brittany + Henery VII of England) Verard lived on Port Notre-Dame, at the sign of St. John Evangelist until the collapse of the bridge on 12 Oct. 1499, when he moved to premises under the same sign in the Rue St. Jacques Pres Petit-Pont or pres du cave four St. Severin "on the left baak of the Seine. In 1503 he was living 'devant la RueNeuve Notre-Dame' lso sometimes described as 'Bres Petit-Pont' on the right bank of the Seme, where his last book dated in July 1512 was produced.

444 Dr Eichenberger Bein wil Am See Aug. '96 390SF = $325

Biblia (German) Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, [1475-6] f.0 Ref: Goff B-627 H. 3133 Pell 2372 Oates 987 Pr 1577 BMC II 323 GW 4298. Cop: NYPL, PML, LC, UN Cal, BPub L, Paris BN, St. Gall. HEHL. 534 leaves. 2-424, 425-534 numbered I-ccccxxj, I-CX, the 1st blank. 2 col. 3^a 57-58 lines + headline (foliation + name of book) 341 (251)x218mm. (GW 57-58 lines) a^10 b^8 C^8+1 d-s^10 t^10+1, v-z A-S^10 TV^8, aa-ll^10 Type: 118d. 2 pinholes. Capitals: 2^a, 2b, 4^a, 6 (printed in red); soem of the lombard forms do not seem to occur eslwhere. No. 15 in Zainer's 2nd advertisement. a 2nd Gothic type. Used from (454x309mm) 1471 onwards. Duplicate forms of A, D, M, S + other letters - a smaller V in 1476. [inserted] - 3 in den Galatern LXvj. [end inserted]

Die epistel LXvj. Ciiij - V - vj

Paulus zu den Galathen begins LXv ends LXvij

- Zainer made use of picture initials for his 2 German Bibles. The woodcuts of the 1st ed. were repeated in the 2nf with very little vatiation. - The text is a revised version of Eggestein's Bible. Eggestein's text is based on Mentels, the 1st German translation of the Bible. This translation has been ascribed to Rudigerus (Rusdiger) a professor of theology + Rector of the Univ. of Leipzig in 1451. HEHL 84593 W,D,O - appear to be the sam rubricated in red with colored historiated initials (many but not all) size of leaf 18 3/4 x 13" Galatern - begins LXV - both leaves have historiated initials ends LXVII

High German version. Leaves numbered on both sides. No sign, Text corrected modernizedAmong inovations introduced by Zainer were printing in red ink for headings in the text + occasionally for a headline.