Farfel Notebook 02: Leaves 065-134

70 Oct. 77 $15 UCLABookFair -Dawsons (Hanson Nyder) Johannes Nidu (c.1380 - 1440 c.1395-1438) [inserted] 18 editions before 1500 [end inserted] Pracceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio dicalogi Augsburg: Anton Sorg, cuciter 24 May 1475. Ref: Goff N199 BMC II 342 Hain 11789 IGI 6892 Cop: HEHL U Cal Bakeley. (278 x 200 mm) -The 2nd book to be printed form Sorg's own press. Folio 305 leaves 37 lines + headline (precept + chapter numbers) 191 (201) x 136 mm Type 103 (large test type used up to the end of 14772 forms of N+R.) Preceptum quartuom Capital spaces to guide letters Capitulum sextum Rubricated in red : initials underlining The 1st date connected to Sorgis that of Augustinians: quinquagiunta printed circiter Kal. Februarij, 1493 He continued printing cataimly until 27 Sept. 1493. Sorg was connected at the begining of his carreer to the press of SSUlrich + Afna, q.v., at the end of it to Schobsser. (Monastery) -friars- Augustinian Presumably Sorg acquired the type from here.

First Augusburd edition of Nidu's most frequent reprinted theological work in the 15th C, an exposition of the Ten Commandments that serves as a popular hand book for confessors + preachers. The author was an important German theologian and refromer from Swabia who succeded in pacifying the Hussites + adhered to the principals of St. Thomas; he died in Colman in 1438.

The gothic type of the monastery of St. Ulrich + Afna to which presumably printing was begun in 1473 was later on in the possession of A Sorg + one may suppose that it was Sorg who printed the books that came from the monastery. -The type is very remarkable indeed - as all the capitals look like ornamental Uncials [crossed out] as at a lat [ end crossed out] they almost seem to be a kind of small Lombards as at a letter Haeblea

Augusburg. A characteristic feature of the Augsburg presses was their early and successful attempt to amalgamate letterpress and illustration, or rather to continue the tradition of the illuminated manuscript in the novel medium of print. It is not wihout signifigance that the first printer - Gunther Zainer, probably trained in Mentelin's shop in Strasbourg - was called to Augsburg by the abbot of SS. Ulric and Afra, which had for a long time been the seat of a famous scriptorium. By its side the abbey was set up a press which produced three large-scale books of moral instruction in 1472-6. From 1475 Anton Sorg, origionally a Briefmaler who had learned printing in Zainer's shop, worked on the abby premises. He soon turned to the publication of vernacular texts, first biblical and theological, but from 1480 to his death in 1493 mainly historical and travel books. These include Marco Polo's and Breydenbach's realistic descriptions of the Near and Far East as well as the fabulous exploits of St Brandan and John de Mandeville, and above all the history of the Council of Constance by Ulrich von Richental, magnificently illustrated with forty-four woodcuts 53 Time we find them in use as ornamented initials. This type in this form is obviously Sorg's own creation, but it was never imitated by any other printer. He printed to this type down to the end of 1477 + during that printed it was his only Type. -Sorg was one of the 1st printers who made use of a large type to pick out the headings of the chapters, column titles + the like. b. Issuy in Wittenberg. Dominican. d. Nuremberg. Johannis Nidu- theologian, was educated at Colman, Vienna + later at cologne. He gained a wide reputation in Germany as a preacher and a reformer, + was active in he Councils of Constance + Basle. -prolific writer who adhered strictly to the principles of St. Thomas -One of Nidus's most important works. In the Preceptorium he gives a careful interpretation of the 10 commandments for confessors + preachers. Contains many chapters of judicial interest, on antnacts, peymy, trade + fraudulent trade practices + also chapters on sorcery, necromancy + witchcraft. -a treatise fo moral theology arranged according to the 10 commandments. Sorg's and book. 4th ed of this famous treatise on moral theology. printed in the same Types as the Speculum Historiale of V de Beauvais printed in 1494 at the monestery of SS Ulrich + Afra; it was here along to G Zainer that Sorg had begun printing, + it is likely that his earliest productions were all arranged by Melchion von Stamhaim, the abbot of the monestery

HEHL #104107 Preceptum Quartum begins P6 (of 10) my leaf Q9 (of 10) ends Q10 (of 10) rubricated in red + blue Total - Preceptum Decimum.

Oct. 77 71 $15. UCLABookFair Dawsons Biblia German Augusburg: Johann Schossperger 9 Nov, 1490 fo Ret: Goff Bb35 Jam 3140 GW 4306 Schi 3464 [inserted] 1978 2400 Sif. [end inserted] Cop HEHL (-), Am. Bible Soc., NY, NY Public Lib- Spencer Call.) Brealeau.

42.) 2 columns, 508 numbered [inserted] The 12th German Bible [end inserted] Das buch [inserted] Coleman 337 [end inserted Ruth gg.j. ccv leaves. 21 colored woodcuts in the text + numerous woodcut initials. Woodcuts are a smaller version of the Cologne Bible of 1479-80. [inserted] See #341 [end inserted] GW {Typen 2: 96 G, 3: 140 G, 88 Hozschnitte T1 502 B1. T2 508 B1. The 1st printed German Bible, the Mentel Bible of 1466, [inserted] p. 433 Cambridge Bible Vol 2 [end inserted] in optic of moderizations, actually reflects the language + thamotalion technique of about the beginning of the 14th C. the manuscript fom which Mentel printed his Bible has perished but a compaion to other texts from the period shows that he used a version which was then at least 150 yrs old; the 1466 Bible is thus really the 1st complete German Bible. Elwen new editions was called for before 1500, but the frequent + often drastic alterations made in late aditions show how umsalis factory this archaic thamslation was felt to be. All the same it held the field until eclipsed by Luther's version. The baptism of the Frankis king Colvis + his vassals on Christmas Day 496 marks the effective begining of Christianity among the Germans. 916- the Anglo Saxon Boniface began his 40 yrs of missionary work.

1466- Mentel Bible- based on the Latin Yulgate -inserts the Epistle of the Laodiceams after Galatians + places the [inserted] Demlows Monle [end inserted] Acts next after Hebrews same type as for Schatzbehalter 1483 - A. Kobanger -the 9th German Bible -the text is apparently based on the Cologne Law German Bible, Luther in referring to this editio of Kobanger declared that "no one could speak German of this outlandish kind." On this Bible dedend the following:

8th German Bible, Augsburg: Anton Sorg 1480 See #193 the 10th J. Gruminger - Strassburg - 1485. See #341 11th H. Schonsperger - Augsburg - 1487 12th '' '' -1490 Same Type as #3 13 H Otman '' 1507 See #216 14 S. Otman '' 1518 See #417 These 5 bibles contain woodcuts like those in the Kobuger Bible but reproduced in smaller size -in the 56 yrs between 1466 + 1522 Walther enumerates 18 editions if the Bible (14 in High German 24 in how German) + 22 of the Psalter.

did in 1520 Schonsperger breaks to the Augsburg tradition of setting popular books is specially large + heavy types. His minuscules are still those German torm to a plain "a" + to descendes for the f + s. J. Zainer gave his lower case letters the Latin form + his Type is still somewhat heavy in proportion to its body. Clearly, however, to this type Schonsperger intended to reduce his standard type to a middle size; corresponding to this he used a special heavy type. But this latter is not a type he made, but a copy of one of Anton Sorg's.

Luther by taking his written forms from the official language of the Chancery of Saxony + his vocabulary from that of the common people of that area gave them such comency that by the 17 C they had become the standard literary language for all the German speaking peoples

Total number of leaves 1010. Schonsperger's 2nd ed of the Bible has the distinction of being the 1st German Bible to have a title page. In this Schonsperger + in the H. Otman + S. Otman Bibles the title page is repeated for each of the 2 may or divisions to the appropriate designations "first part" +