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The booksellers + printers of Toulouse turned their
attention espicially to the Spanish book market -a
number of books in Spanish were produced by the
printers in Toulouse. The B. Anglicus is an example.
- an edition of 700 copies - H. Mayer cut for his fount"
The peculiar sort, the double r (r petruna the
Spanards call it.)
19 books - 1) God 2) angels + demons 3) psychology 4) family life,
domestic economy 5-6) physiology 7) medicine 8) cosmology, astrology,
9) time 10) elements 11) meteorology 12) flying creatures
13) water + fishes 14) physical geography 15) political geography
16) gems, minerals + metals 17) trees + herbs 18) animals
19) color, odor, savor, food, drink, weights + measures, musical
instruments.
Toulouse was the gateway of the main route through
The Pyrenees + about a dozen books for the Spanish
market were printed there in the 15th C.
HEHL not subricated - my leaf folio 144 D6 (of 8) - capitulo 7,8,9,10
(104 614) Book 10 - "del propietario que trata dela materia 7
dela formas 7 del sus propiedades"
10 Capitulo - begins folio 141 D3
edge of leaves ends folio 144 D6
- gilt
This encyclopaedic account "of the properies of things" written by
an English monk in the 13th C defines + explains everything
from Angels, Alabaster, + Arabia to Earthworms + Zinziba (gingu)
-The only Spanish incunabul (?) edition. Toulouse served as
the gateway for the main route through the Pyrenees,
+ about 12 Spanish books for export were printed
there in the 15th C.
this was Mayer's last fully signed + dated book +
his most ambitious venture emplying a new font of
type + original woodcuts.