Farfel Research Notebooks

Vesalius, The Illustrations from his works (1950) - NC 1055 V575f - Charles D. O'Malley Ref. A. Vesalius - Charles D. O'Malley - Stack 611.092 V570 J. Oporinus [inserted] supporter + secretary to Paracelsus both Einsiedlen [end inserted] (the Latinized from of Herbst) 1507 - 1568. -born in Basel, acted as a conector fro J. Froben, medical study to Paracelsus, professor of Latin + Greek in th euniversity 1539 41 Oporinus established himself independently as a printer in Basel until 1566 when he retired -buried in the cathedral of Basel -Printed the 1st Latin ed of the Koran, a venture which landed him in jail + required no less than the efforts of M. Luther to gain his release. The cumulative ecidence points to him certainly to the fact that the illustrations of the Fabrica + Epitome emanated from the atelier of Titian. Jon van Kalker, Domenico Campagnola + doubtless other artists participated in the work under the suspicion of the master, but some of the plates are certainly the work of Vesalius himself. 2nd. folio ed. - The illustrations are superbly reproduced + show to better advantage on the heavier paper. No where are the illustrations better seen. Vesalius made many definite improvements in the text. He added further observations + corrected others, but perhaps the most valuable addition was the extension of the chapter on his physiological experiments. -After this book was prited, a physician no longer had to be primarily a philosopher, able to discuss health + disease in syllogistic form + with the help of classic quotations. -It supersedes Galen, whose works had been accepted as the ultimate authority since Greek antiquity. A book of revolutionary moment in anatomy + surgery in a format surpassed by no other scientific + matise. The major feature in the revision of the text is the 1st diagnosis + description of an eunism of the abdominal + thoracic aorta.

67 Oct. 77 $10. UCLA BookFair -Dawsons Johannas Friburgensis (d. 1314) (-a German author) Summa Confession [German] Trans. into German by Buchtold, O.B. -a Dominican When: Conrad Dinckmut 12 Nov. 1484 fo Ret: Goff J321 BMC II 534 Havn 7371 Pn2564 Cap: Lafayette COllege, Van Wickle Lib, Easton, Pa. Univ. of N. Carolia Lib. -literature of the confessional - for the use of priests 200 leaves 15-199 Lumbead Das J - clxxxvi blat 35 leaves of foliation, 192 (201) x 119 mm Type 109 (German text type) Capitals (2,4,5) in use from 1484-88 Dinckmut -regular actualy as a printer seems to have begun about 1482, in which year he printed at least 4 books. Dinckmut's out put become s smaller at the and of the 80's, but he was still printing in 1496 He left Ulm in 1499 same work printed by J. Schonopuger - 1489 Hain. 7374

Haebler Ulm- owing doubtless to a commiercial crisis in the 70's + continued plague in the following decade its typographical history is a rather gloomy one as Zainer, Dinckmut, Holle + Reger all of whom started doing very good press work seem in every case to have lost their capital + been obligated to give up their presses, so that by the beginning of the 16th C printing in Ulm had almost entirely ceased. Dinckmut- it may be supposed that at first he was an assistant of J. Zainer. His independence as a printer began in 1482 + till 1496 we find him carrying on his business; we know that he was a book binder also. His types show the unmistakable influence of the Augsburg presses.

- italian gothic - uncial d whose ascender is bent parallel with with the bare line - letters as wide as they are tall (square in form) - et sign 7 is uncrossed - reversed c set on the line for con + bus - the Italian q for qui - wavy line for omitted r, ra, er, re, ri - do, de, po, pe, be, bo share the middle minim - orthodox gothic - Italian flourish of vertical lines through the larger intitials - final m resembles a 3, the tail extending below the line I - the suprascriptus sign (an elongated crecent, open toward the lower left) Column A line 4, 5 reversed C for con + fr bus line 19 6, 12 97 (que) 7 qda3 (guidam) 8 ed Dzoca ?Dominicia dc Dnica 9 e (est) 24 oia (omnia) XIII P. 25 Sczpta (scripta) Column B line 3 lel' 04 (seculaorum) 6 Vertical lines in T 9 patiat7 (ur) 16 qm (quoniam) VIII f 22 he II column A line 5,8 p (per) 6 uo (vero) 7 oia (omnia) 7 b7 (us) 9 l'mo (sermo) column B line 1 uob' (vobis) 11 l'm (secundum) 2 q0 (quo) 12 po 7 T = vertical lines 14 q (qui) 10 p (pro) 23 m2 (mihi) 11 fczptures (scriptures) 24 minim7 (us)

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Ptolemaeus, Claudius (with 100= c. 178) (LI) Book II Chapt. 9 + 10 5th ed. See #39 (8 books) cosmographia. (Tr: Jacobus Angelius) (Ed. Nicolaus Germamus) Registrum. De locis ac mirabilibus mundi. Ulm: Johann Reger, for Justus de Albano 21 July 1486. - folio Goff P-1085 HC 13540 BMC II 540 Schr 5032 Sabin 66473 Philips Atlases Cop HEHL, NYPL. (421x284mm) [43.5 cm Rosenwald Collection Goff p 1084] 140 leaves initials colored in red, green, pale yellow + brown Initials - colored in red. gree, brown, pale yellow 2 columns. 44 lines + headline, 308(321)x197mm Type 140 Maiblumen capitals - double line frame about 41x41mm - copies of those in Holle's Ptolemy. This edition is a page for page reprint of Holle's (roman gothic transtitional letter) 1482 ed. as far as the recto of leaf 12 (b2) The remainder of the text of Ptolemy occupies slightly more space + the list of prouinciae seu safrapiae is appended to it, whereas Holle inserted it at the end of the maps. The maps (32) are those of Holle's en. . but have been supplied with woodcut headlines + the borders to the text on the reverse are omitted. Cosmographia - more than 40 manuscript copies are known. (in both Latin + Greek) Ptolemaeus, Claudius Cosmographia (Tr: J. Angelus) Ed: Nicolaus Germanus Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. f.^0 (418x276mm vellum copy) Goff P1084 HC 13539 BMC II 538 Cop HEHL, NYPL.

2 col. 44 lines, 305x197mm, Type 140, Maiblumen {later served as a mdel for the 2nd special type cut for the Ashendene Press knwon as teh Ptolemy type} (large text type - almost Roman) used in 1486 to print the Ptolemy + afterwards (1496, 1499) in small quantities as heading type. Previously employed in Holle'e 1482 Ptolemy. Liienhart Holle is knwon to have pritned in 1482-4. Bender Rm 016.91 S844

Hemy N. Stevens - Ptolemy's Geography - a breif account of all ed. down to 1730 Edward L. Stevenson - a translation Rare Book G 87 P 83 S7 1932f

Ptolemy in Book 2-7 has listed over 8,000 locations giving what he thought to be the correct latitude + longitude of each

Reger appears to have started printing in 1486, his 1st books being the Ptolemy. His latest work was done in 1499 in which year he left Ulm. Ptolemy's work composed about 150 AD not only represents teh extent of geographical knowledge in classical times; it remained for more than 14 C (or until the time of Mercator) the standard compendium.

From the maps of Donnus Nicolaus Germanus' (a German who worked in Florence as comographer, illuminator + perhaps printer) third (1468) manuscritp version of Ptolemy's Geographia were printed those of the Ulm editions of 1482 + 1486. Nicolaus had added new maps of Scandinavia + the North. showing Greekland - new world knwon before Columbus 8th map Spain, Italy, Gual + Palestine. The Geographia printed at Ulm presented for the 1st time a map of Eastern Europe, the "Tabula Moderna Prussia, Norbegie, Gatcia et Russia, extra Prolemeum posita", which has a special explanatory chapter to iteslf in the 1486 edition.

The 1st four ed. may be stated to form the printed protypes of the ancient maps in most of the later printed editions. During the next 250 yrs Ptolemy's Geography in its constantly improved forms, still continued to be the standard work on the subject, so much so that upwards of 50 more editions or colllateral works appeared before 1730. Florence + Ulm ed. - first in which an attempt had been made to bring Ptolemy up to date by the introduction of modern maps.

Florence - only ed. in which the old Ptolemeian maps are reproduced on the orignial projection with rectangular + equi distant meridians or prarallels as used in the earliest manuscript maps. In the other 3 ed. the maps are all redrawn on new projections with slanting or curved maidians + parallels.

Shortly after publication L. Holle went bankrupt. His stock was Taken over by J. Reger who 4 years later put out a 2nd ed. with a printing of about 1000 copies.

(104) May'80 Madliger -Schwab 60 SF = $36.80 Biblia Germanica low Saxon (low German) Lubeck : Steffen Arndes , 19 Nov. 1494 Goff B638 HCR 3143 BMC II 560 GW 4309(+ var) Cop HEHL ( 2 , 1 var) signature c ii (in error) O.T. Kings I : 20 folio , 492 leaves , 2 col. (65-67) 66 lines & headline , 305 (320)x200 mm Types 172 title , headings on 1b- 6b, headline on 6b ; 165 , other headlines & headings : 92 text . Capitals (1,2,3,4 ) [inserted]unusually rich assortment of decorative initials.[end inserted] 97 woodcuts which including repititions 152 total - woodcuts . The headlines give the names of the books. 92 text - ornate Schwabacher [inserted](reflects upper Rhenish influence)[end inserted] Type of a style much used in the 16th C . It much resembles Reger (Wm) 91 In use 1494 , 96, 97 .Two forms of A, D,E, S, & k .

[inserted]a native of Hamberg Mayence?[end inserted] Steffon Arndes 3rd Press - after previously working in Perugia (1481) & in Schleswig (1486) Arndes settled in Lubeck in 1487 & continued to print in that city until 1519. (d. 1515/16 0r 1519 38.7 x 29 cm

In 1494 low German bible (low Saxon) was published at Lubech a huge work of over a million words , so it includes a good deal of Lyra's gloss . It has close affinities - the Cologne bible & hence - the low German tradition generally . But - this work we come to the end of the low German tradition as far as Germany proper is concerned . Northern Germany was irresistibly drawn into the High German orbit , & High German est. itself first as a literary medium & later as a spoken language . - illustrations [inserted]are among the most remarkable of x v c design . They mark a new departure from the old style.[end inserted] of exceptional merit , far more sephisticated than those of the Cologne bible - but as a whole the Lubeck Bible was less successful than the Cologne Bible , and had less effect on subsequent Bible production .

Gaul is divided into 4 provinces - Map III { Aquitainian Gaul { Lugdunensian " {Belgic Gaul { Narbonension Gaul Map IV GreaterGermania

Chapt. IX - Location of Narbonensis Gallia (3rd map of Europe) The borders of Narbonensis are contiguous - the neighboring provincial tribes ,which have been described ; from the remaining (parts) , those which are on the east , are terminated by the western part of the Alps from from the Adulas mountains to the mouth of the Varus river , the location of which is 27 30 43 The south is terminated by the remaining part of the Pyrenees mountains extending from the boundary of Aquitania as far as the summit of the mountains at the inner sea, where there is a temple of Venus , & by the Gallic sea to the mouth of the Vanus river . The shores of this sea are thus described :

66 Oct. 77 $20 Zeitlin + Ver Brugge Los Angeles Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514.) Liber chronicarum Augsburg: Johann Schonsperger [inserted] (1481-1520) [end inserted], I Feb. 1497 folio Latin edition Ref: Goff S 308 BMC II 370 Hain C.R. 14509 Polain (B) 3470 Cop: Stan UL, HEHL Pn 1786 -cccviii (KA 14975) -JJiij (of 6) 366 leaves Fo. ii-cccxxxviii. [inserted] (28-365 numbered) [end inserted] 2 columns 51 lines + headline, 224 (232) x 135 mn. Types 300, titles; 150, headlines + headings: 87 text. Woodcuts. The headlines give the 'aetates mumdi' as far as 321 a. wood occ. from 1495 to 1500. Apparently the same in face as Quent ed (Cologne) 280- with a similar [inserted] ad [end inserted] mixture of Lombard Capitals 87 text- German + Latin text type, used from 1494 onwords. Heavy with uppper [inserted] serif overhanging + lower serif curled [end inserted] Schoensperger is 1st extent dated book is a German Regimen sanitatis printed, Sept 1481; he continued to print into the 16th C.

Printed form Kiburger's 1493 Nuremberg edition. Johann Schoensperger may be noted among the more prolific printers of illustrated books, but most of his illustrations were based on work previously issued by other printers (e.g. his German Herbarius of 22nd August 1485, based on Schoeffer's Mainz edition of March 1485, and numerous works following in the wake of the Augsburg printers, Baemler and Sorg). His use of the stencil in the colours of his botanical woodcuts in the Herbarius contrasts with Ratdolt's method of colour-printing.2

Owing to the greater handiness of size + to the considerably lower price due to the reduction of costs, these printed editions were in much greater demand than the original. Section begins folium CCXCV ggi De Sarmacia regione Europe. Before Septima etas mundi + Ultima etan mundi Colophon- folium CCCXXXVIII- Q5

translation p. 59 (I:1x,x11) "This figure represents the anterior aspect of the skull, in which the bones of the upper jaw are shown as accurately as possible. We have placed the skull of a dog beneath that of man so that nayone may understand Galen's description of the bones of the upper jaw without the slighteset difficulty. In addition, it was necessary to rest the human skull [inserted] pages 47+48 in 1st ed. [end inserted] on its occiput + to set its anterior portion on the dog's so that the orbits to the sutures + bones appearing in them may be more clearly seen..." This arresting illustration was of extraordinary symbolic signifigence to Vesalius who employed it twice as a chapter heading. Apart from the obvious demonstration of the boundaries of the facial bones, the primary purpose of the illustration was to reveal that Galen had describet the premaxillary bone + suture of the dog as though present in man + thus could not have been familiar to human anatomy. His discovery from which he made the correct deduction was one of the major factors leading to the overthrow of Galenical anatomy. p.60 (I:V2,X11) bottom figure - The formen of Vesalius is now seen on the left of the illustratio, just lateral to teh ant. clenoid process + ant. to the foramen spinesum marked by the letter Q 1st ed (1543) dates, + praecipue 11 lines De Ossium Capitis et Maxillae -Capital X11 height Q vando quidid 12 lines Prima x11 Capitis Figura Skull Praesens 4 lines Secvn.

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Bible - double manuscript leaf from a Latin Bible containing part of Chronicles II (Paralipomenon2) Chapters XIIII - XVII (page 131), XXV - XXVII (page 134) (285 x 193 mm.) Headings (PA, LIPO II), decorated capitals, chapter numbers, + calligraphic marginal ornamentation in alterating red + blue The text is written in a Gothic book hand, much abbreviated, in two columns of 53 lines each. France, 13th C (early) - Anglo (Norman - Normandy, French Gothicsouthern Italy + Sicily from the mid 11th C. ENglant united to Normandy until 1204 from 1066.) to for cun for est (late by 1289) to for nom (XCI I. 18) It is very difficult to distinguish between MSS from England + Nothrern France of this period. crossing of tinonian at oign 7 turned in tail (backward swing of the final downstroke) of h, m + n forked ascendence of b, h, l medial g sign for con or cun generally Franch 2 shaped con sign (XVI I.4) the susal abbrev sign for m, n, er, re is a z reclining on the axis Z. This sign develops soon into a superscript 5 (ie >1218) finishing stroke of z seldom joins the trunk of the letter looped z following em o n a p forked which does not go below the line - French cursve hand.

The practice of writing above the top line + the marking of chapter numbers indicate that this was produced early in the 13th C. Tuling was usually executed on the open double folio, + the times then ran across the mine border of the folio from the end of one leat to the recto of the conjugate leaf. -All scribes make mistakes from time to time in copying text in Bibles in particular any corrections was sometimes porudly enclosed in red frame in the margins in order to proclaim that the transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy.