Farfel Research Notebooks

by Saur. - a 4th ed (1805) 4^0 was published by Gottleb Youngmann in Reading, Pa - much like Sauer's in typography + general appearance

Christoph Saur I - born Germany 1693 - arrived in America in 1724 - died 9/25/1758, at age 65, Christoph Saur II succeeded his father, the founder when he died.

R. Petre #159 1743 Bible. 4^0, Luther's version. 1st Germantown Bible - the earliest Bible in a European language printed in America Copy: HEHL -about 150 copies known to be in existence {1200 printed on [inserted] Long primer. type [end inserted] 995 pages in O.T. + Apocrypha; 227 in N.T. sig letters to O.T. are in German to N.T. in Roman characters. Bound in beveled boards, it was covered with strong leather. Clasps held the cover together. The text was printed in double col. with parallel references, short summaries heading every chapter + 2 ornamental headpieces, one for Genesis + the other for St. Matthew. The title page was printed in red + black. Sower asked 18 schillings or about $2.50 for his work. He sent 12 copies to his benefactor Dr. Heinrich Ehrenfried Luther had supplied the type font - (type found in Frankfurt - am Maur) Unfortunately the ship that carried them was captured by Spanish pirates off St. Malo. THe Spaniards made an ecumenical gesture by seeing that Luther got his Bibles at last 2 yrs later.

1763 heading page # 1743 heading page # at Stanford, leaf, Ege collection - "Mose p. 195" It is thought that at least a portion of the paper used for the 1743 Bible was made in the mill conducted by the 7th Day Baptist brotherhood at Ephrata, [inserted] (on the banks of Cocalico Creek) [end inserted] Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, est. about 1736. The principal product of the mill was a coarse brown paper called "macalatur."

This paper was never watermarked, but the finer grades of printing + writing papers bare marks of identification. The Ephrats mill was the 4th in Pennsylvania. The water used in the early mills had considerable influence upon the shade or tint of the paper. In the wintertime especially, it was difficult to clarify the water for use in paper. This muddy appearance is noticable in many early American-made papers.

1763 pp(4) 992, 277(3) Evans 9343 1270 pages The sigs. to the O.T. are in black letter, those to the N.T. in Roman. Title 1f.; verso blank; Vorrade 1 p. Verzeichnisz aller Bucher + c. 1p. Text Gen to Mal. pp. 1-805 Apocrypha to Mamasses' prayer (in smaller type) pp. 806-949. 32 4th books of Ezra + 3rd book of Maccabees pp. 849-992. Title to N.T. same as that to ed. of 1743 1 p. Verzeichnisz + c. 1 p. Text Mat to Rev pp. 3-277 Register 3 unnumbered pp. sigs. A to Mm^4, in 4's. price was 21 schillings. my leaf pp. 11+12 B2 (of 4) 51 lines HEHL #34101 - 10x7 1/2" Matthai - A2 p.3 - p. 38 E3 51 lines

- Contains paper - sheet 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches manufactured by W. Parks, the 1st public printer of Virginia, who had a mill at Williamsburg about 1744. His watermark constructed of the Arms fo Virginia centered in 1/2 of the sheet, the initials WP + a crown in the other half. (See pp. 212, 436, 444, 438, 446, 434, 442, 450 copy at Williamsburg) - The letters of the general title differ in size from those of the 1st ed. The preface is a new one + is entirely unlike that of the 1743 Bible. Ephrata press - turned out more than 40 publications.

pp(2) 995; (2) 2277 (3) (4) my leaf begins + ends with same words on p. 11+12 in this ed. 51 lines 20 lines = 83 mm. Evans 5127 5128 HEHL 48160 9 3/4 x 7 1/8" 1267 pages. 1743 2 impressions of the title page known. Title, one leaf; verso blank. Preface, 1 page. Order of Books of Old T., 1 page. Text pp. 1-805 Apocrypha pp. 806-949. Appendiz. pp. 950-995 New T. title, one leaf. Prefacem 1 leaf. Order of Books 1 page. Text pp. 3-277 Register of Epistles + Gospels for Sundays of Christian year 2 pages. Register of Epistles + Gospels for certain Saints Days, 1 leaf. Short history of translations of the Bible 4 pages. Sigs A^2 to Mm all in 4's except the last which is in 6's. - price unbound was 11 schillings. - more than 1 kind of paper - some sheets show the watermark of the paper mill of the Ephrats community.

The Bible that Sauer I gave America ws basically the Lutheran Bible, but Saur was not a Lutheran. It was printed because a deeply religious man wished to meet the need for a Bible among his fellows, i.e. not a commercial but a religious undertaking - none of the early American Bibles were money makers (1663, 1743, 1782). Petre America's 1st Bibles Z7771 A5 R8 HEHL - 1744 Sauer I built his own paper mill - he did not use American made paper for his 1743 Bible - rather paper of foreign manufacture - D. Hunter, however, believed that the paper used in both ed. ('43 + '63) was made in this country (cannot be verified by documents though.)

451 Dawson's Los Angeles Dec. '96 $50

Jacobus de Voragine (1230-1298) Dat Duytsche Passionail [Legenda Aurea in Low German] See #65 Cologne: Ludwig von Renchen I. 21 July 1485 II. 31 Oct. 1485 Ref: Goff-J171 BMC I 266 Schr 4321 Polain (B) 2223 Cop: HEHL(-), NYPL, Cambridge UL H. 9988 -a bifolium.

folio. 252 leaves, 3-251 numbered iij-CCLi in pt. 1 and iij-cclij (omitting XCVII) in pt. II. 2 col. pt. 1. 42-43 lines 198x131mm Types 235 title; 158 headings' 93^a text. Spacer with many guide letters left for capitals. With 4 woodcut capitals + many moodcuts.

HEHL 99079 rub. all in red only. woodcuts uncolored. e^2 (of 8) XXX Eyn Exempel Eyn 7/22 Maris Magdelena marked 223 Etzlighe saghen dat e^3 XXXI Eyn Exmpell (recto) 7/23 verso Apollinaris begins e^4 XXXII Dye legende va d'hilligen lonckfrouvue 7/24 sente Christina 7/25 e^5 XXXIII Dye legende va sent jacob dem meerze apostel (verso) 7/26 f^1 xxxvij Dye legende va sente Anna e^6 XXXIIIj marked 226 - continues sent jacobus du apostel Part II begins with Die legende van sent Johannes ynd paulus mentelern all 4 rubrications on XXXI are in red.

Schreiber 4321 Heiligen Leben en dialecte bas - allemand 2 vol. in fol. 1485, vp sent Marien magdalenea avent (21 juillet) - 31 octobre The 1st page of each part is surrounded by a border. part I. 97 figg. de 75: 70 mm " II. 121 sont de dim. differentes. 10 of these cuts proviennent de the printer H. Knoblochtzer at Strassbourg.

- Apollinaris of Ravenna - Bishop, martyr. First century. - Christina the Astonishing Virgin. 1150-1224. Born at Brusthem in the diocese of Liege, Belgium.

452 Heritage Los Angeles Dec. '96 $75

Hugo Ripelin. (d. 1268) [crossed out] Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) [end crossed out] Compendium theologicae veritatis Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, 5 April 1476. 4^0 (with shortened ending) ref: Goff A-232 HC 439 Pell 278 Polain (B) 2014 Pr 4212 BMC CV 205. Oates 1687 GW 604. Copy: HEHL (Sig a-v^8), B Mawr CL, LC, PML, Stan UL. Haebler (ITalian) Tafel 58

160 leaves (a-v^8) (a^8-n^8)-GW. the last blank 3^a:35 lines 137x90mm Type: 79 G Capital spaces, with guide letters text type (P^2) apparently indistinguidhable from Gabriele di Petro 80 G, q.v., exvept that 5 has a shorter + flatter tail. In use in 1476 + 1478. HEHL 99998 rub. in red + blue - my leaf folio 141, s^5 (of 8). cap 33 De pnia uenialiu (De penitetia venialiu). book 6 - begins on folio 123, ends folio 144. De medicina sacramentorum has cap 1-38 cap 34 Propter qd dimittitur pecatum ueniale not properly set up as a title. cap 35 De extrema unctione cap 36 De sacro ordinis Total of 7 books.

C. Arnoldus is recorded as having signed + dated 1 book in each of the years 1472-4, 1476, 1478 + 79. His total output seems to have been less than 12 ed. Haebler It seems probable that the creator of the type with which the A. Magnus is pritned was Gabriele di Pietro, unless Christoph Valdarffer, who about the same time printed with this type in Milan, had cut it before he left Venice. At all events, it is a type of marked originality, but its vogue was only a short one + as early as 1480 it was superseded by kindred but less original types. C. Arnold printed with it almost exclusively during the

greater part of his limited activity as a pritner. Only in a few books did he use together with this type a heading type which seems to have been based on Ulrich Han's gothic text type. C. Arnold was a native of the Duchy of Prussia + possibly was an assistant in Christoph Valdarfer's printing office. In 1472 he opened a printing office of his own in Venice. During his 1st years he printed exclusively with a roman type + from 1476 just as exclusively with gothic types. The book bearing his signature is dated 1479. - Two recensions of the Compendium theologicae veritatis were published in the 15th C. That with the more flowering explicit printed in Nuremberg, Speyer, Cologne, Ulm, Deventer + Strassburg treated the text as anonymous. That with the breifer explicit, printed in Venice with several Lyons reprints, attributed the text to ALbertus Magnus. The extensive MSS tradition made further attributions to Alexander de Hales, St. Bonaventura, Aegidius de Columna, St. Thomas Aquinas + others. The tree author, Hugo Ripelin of Strassburg (O.P. d. 1268.) was prior of the Dominican convent of Strassburg. Magnus - the most important observer of nature that the middle Ages had yet produced, the greatest naturalist since Pliny. His most valuable studies are perhaps his botanical + zoological works.

453 Dawsons Los Angeles Dec. '96 $35.00

Monograph by Duncan H. Olmsted Beckeley: Temalpais Press, 1962.

Jacobus de Voragine Legendario de Sancti (sic) vulgate hystoriado) Italian. See #238 #470 Venice: Bartolomeius Zanni, April 8, 1503. f^0 Ref: Sanders Vol 3+4 #7720 3rd ed. by Zanni Essling #681 Cop: National Library of Florence.

24 ff num. sign: a^8-z^87^8 Rx^8 A^8-C^8 D^10. car. rom. titre goth. 2 col. 62 lines Sanders Dans le texte (230) vignettes des editions: 1492 ct 1494 (#7716+17) V. du titre: fontispice de l'ed. 5 Dec. 1499 Essling #678 #679 181 cuts with 7 repeats 239 cuts #7716 Manfredo de Monte ferato. Venice. 1492 #7717 Matheo Codeca. Venice. 1494.

Essling #680 B. Zanni. Venice: 5 Dec. 1499. 240 ff. 2 col. 62 lines. 239 cuts the greater part of which are from 1492 + 1494 editions Goff J-181 Sanders #7719 C. 6503 IGI 5047 Copy: PML

1st edition by B. Zanni: 1490

De Sancto Simone et ivda zii 178. (recto) De Sancto Quintino Cap cix with woodcut. (verso)

HEHL 99592 C. 6500 J. de Voragine (Italian) 1484, 2 col., 631., 213 ff. no woodcuts - in this edition: cap CVI Di sancto simone 7 inda CVII De sancto quintino begins "Quintino di paretado nobile 7 citadino romao. Uenut...." CVIII Di sancto eustackio CV De undecca millia virgine. CIIII Di Sancto frisato. Total of clxv cap. ixxxx to cviii - Oct. iii-clxv - June to Nov. CVIIII to clxv - Nov i+ii - end of may last sancto nicolao de toletino

July cap XXV Maria magdaline. XXVI Apolinare. XXXVII Christina virgine. XXXVIII jacobo apostolo.

Bartholomaeus de Zauris - 1st signed book is the Saxo ferato 31 Jan. 1486/7, his 2nd the Mesue of July 1487. He continued work well into the next century, printing both at Venice + at portese in 1489 + 1490. Zanis printed upward + of 50 incunabula During the 16th C he issued a study stream of books, especially illustrated folio ed. of Latin + Italian classics. He is perhaps better known, however, as having been summoned to his native town of Portise in 1489 to print the town's statutes, the only-early book 1490 printed at Portese (a small town near Brescia) In the 15th C Zanni had no device of his own. But in the 16th C he adopted the figure of St. Bartholomew. He was succeeded by Augustine de Ianis who worked until 1528. D. Reichling #1659 In folio, chas. rom: 224 ff. non num. sigs a-z, &, 7, Rx, AB^8 2 col. 6011. 1490, a di ult. di Marzo J. de Voragine. Aurea. legenda Sanctorum.

454 Dawsons Los Angeles Dec. '96 $15

Jake Zeitlin, Christmas 1938. 125 Cpoies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press.

Richard Day. (1552-1607?) 1995 Sold for $4887 A Booke of Christian Prayers, collected out of the Ancient Writers, and best learned in Our Time, worthy to be read with an earnest mind of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome daies..... Pirage Cat 22 #55 London; R. Yardley + Peter Short for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1590 8 p.l, 138 pp, [2] leaves. Ref: S.T.C. 6431 4th ed. of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. COp: HEHL, PML #60969

Small quarto. Roman and Black letter. Printed within fine woodcut borders after A. Durer + H. Holbein, portrait of the Queen (Elizabeth) on back of title. Lengthe of leaf 181mm. my leaf E^1 in black letter (of 4) Prayers 13 A-Y, Aa-Oo^4 p. 11 A short speech before the Lords prayer. as listed in index p. 12 A prayer to God the Father. p. 15 A " " " " " in Christes name. Dance of Death borders begin on p. 82 leaf foreedge - gilt.

1) R. Day - [and anon. compilation; not by R. Day], Christian prayers + meditations in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek + Latine. J. Daye, 1569 London HEHL 60973 S.T.C. 6428 Often quoted as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. 4^0. e^1 - small roman letter.

List 245 1953 Brentano's sold a leaf for $1.00 2) Richard Day. A Book of Christian Prayers ... London 1578 John Daye dwelling over Aldergate. 7 3/8 x 5 1/16" (107x128mm) HEHL 438000:4 S.T.C. 6429. 2nd e. 4^0. Copy: PML E1 - a capital Roman letter. Prayers 13 - A Prayer to God the Father Prayers 1 - 137 (Ooij) p. 126 - 132. the Letany + Suffrages. Prayers 5. - A Prayer to be said at our returning home.