is a small quarto, and very beautifully printed, and well preserved. Sir Thomas Bodley had this in his library, which he presented to the university of Oxford; where it is still kept. Dr. James published a catalogue of all Sir Thomas's books, entitled Catalogus Bibliotheca Bodleianæa,in quarto, 1605; in the 197th page of which book, we find this Tully's Offices, with the following inscription, Ejusdem Liber de Officiis, &c. 1465. About seventy years after this. Dr. Thomas Hyde published his catalogue of all the books in the University library, printed at Oxford, in folio, 1674, in which he gives the date of the book, page 162; which is the same with the former, and confirmed by Antony Wood's History of that University, printed likewise 1674.
1462. Faust printed an edition of the German Bible, in 2 vols. fol. which is the first German Bible with a date; but the priority must be allowed to an edition without date, place, or printer's name, of which a copy is in Lord Spencer's library. There is also a copy of the latter in the Electoral Library at Munich, with two manuscript observations, the one of the date of 1467, being that of the illuminator, at the end of the Prophet Jeremiah; die other is at the end of the Apocalypse, and contains a notice of the genealogical respectability of one Hector Mulich, and a memorandum to this effect, "1466, 27th of June, this book was bought unbound for twelve guilders." Hector Mulich received a patent of nobility from the Emperor Ferdinand that same year. The author of this translation is unknown; and Walchius remarks, that "there were several ancient versions all made from the Latin, but so obscure and barbarous as to be almost unintelligible.
We have under the firm of Faust and Schoeffer, the Psalter of 1467, and a reprint of the same work in 1458. The Rationale Durandi, 1469. Cletnentis Papæ Constitutiones, 1460. Biblia Latina, 1462. Liber Sextus Decretalium, 1466. Cicero de Officiis, 1465, and a reprint of the same 1466, quarta die Menis Februarii. Faust's name appears for the last time to the Cicero de Officiis of 1466.
The device of Faust and Schoeffer consisted of two shields suspended to a bough of a shield, on one of which were three stars. These shields are usually executed in red; and first appeared in the German bible. The mark of the paper on which Faust and Schoeffer, printed many of their works, was the ox-head, sometimes with a star or a flower over it.
The following epigram, which is found in Gal Mandæaeus, was written on the supposition, that the paper used by Faust was uniformly characterisied by having the figure of a bull's head as a water mark:
"The printing office of Faust and Schoeffer," says Fischer, "was established at a house called Zum Heimbrecht or Heimerhof, in Cordwainer'sstreet, opposite the college of the Cordrliers, and lately of the Jesuits. That very house was even recently called Drei Konigshof, from the name of a small chapel—where according to an ancient tradition, the skulls of three Magicians were deposited, having been carried in solemn procession, from Milan to Cologne." Faust's department was that of the compositor, and Schoeffer's that of the pressman.
The date and cause of the dispersion of Faust and Schoeffer's workmen, and the consequent spreading of the art of printing over the continent of Europe, have been already stated. The respective periods of its first introduction into the principal cities and towns, not only in Europe, but in every country where the press has shed its influence, and carried with it the blessings of civilization and liberty, together with such notices and anecdotes of its professors, as shall be interesting to the antiquary, and the lover of the typographic art, have been diligently sought after and will be given with the utmost possible accuracy.
1462. Died John Geinsfliesh or Guternberg senior, one of the reputed authors of the art of printing. (See Gutenberg, 1468.)
1462. Besides the several editions of the Bibla Pauparum, printed with woodblocks, there exist two in which the text is printed in moveable characters; one in the German, the other in
- r1 The most remarkable books printed from block with figures, are these.
Speculum humanæ salvationis. 1408, 1473, 1483.—Figur æ typicæ veteris atque anitiypicæ novi Teatament—seu historia Jesu Christi in figuris. 1475.—Historia seu Providentia Virginia Maria ex Cantico Canticorum iconice exhibits. before 1472.—Fasciculas temporum. 1476— Dialogus creaturarum. 1480.—Art moriendi.—Historia S. Johannis Evangeistæ, cjusque visiones Apocalypticæ.— Ars memorandi notabilis per figuras Evangelistarum.—Tractatus de Antichristo.—Jo. Harthebii Libellus Chiromanticus.—Variæ fabulæ et similitudines.—Meditationes Reverendissini Patris Dni, Johannis de Turrecremata, &c. Rome by Udalrie Hahn, 1467, again in 1472, and by John Nnmeister of Mayence 1573. Remarkable for the singularity of the type, and wood cuts excellent for the time—Roberti Valturii Opus de Re Mititari. Veronæe, a Joanne Cyruiga 1473. The wood cuts to this book are supposed to be done by Motteo Pasti or de Postis, a friend of Valturi's and a painter. He engraved some coins. Keyster calls these copper-plates; and therefore since Mantegna was only twenty-one years old when this book was printed; he will have it that the invention of engraving on copper-pistes, and printing from them, cannot be ascribed to him.
Other books with wood cuts are: Alvarus Pelagius, Summa de planctu Ecclesiæ. 1474.—A Bible printed at. Augsbourg. 1477; two others without place or date; a fourth at Nuremberg, 1483; a fifth in 1490, both by Koburger) a sixth at Lubec; also one printed at Venice, 1490.—Caxton's Myrrour of 1480, is adorned with wood-cuts; as is also his Golden Legend, of 1483; and his Esop's Fables, of 1484.— A Herbal published in Germany, 1484.—Hoorbus Sainitias, 1486 and 1488. both at Augsbuorg; and at Mentx, 1491, by Meydenbach or Medebach.—Sebastian Brandt, born 1458, published Sttuti Navis; or. The Ship of Fools, with one hundred wood cuts after Locher. The first edition has no date, but is supposed to have been printed In 1490; the second has the date, 1494.—Horæ Beatæ Mariæ, 1490, also 1493; and again by Pliillppe Picboucbet, with adodrable wood cuts, in 1500. Books most remarkable for the excellence of their wood cuts, are: Hypnerotomachia Polyphili, 1499—and Le trasfomationi di M. Lodovico Dolce. Ven. typis Gabr. Giolitti de Ferrariis, 1553. See Meerman's Origines Typographicæ.—Clemens Biblotoheque Curieuse,— Fournier sur l'origine et les progres de L'lmprimtrie.—De Bure, Mattaire, Ames, Dibdin, Ottley, Singer, &c.
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