farfel_n05_081_353

N8N Pavlov 353
Book Fair SF
Feb '93
$12.50 (-10%)

Jacobus de Gruytrode (1381 - 1465)
Lavacrum conscientiae.
Augsburg : Johan Froschauer , not after 1498. 4o
Ref: Goff L-103 H. 9955 Pr 1845 BMC II 396 Schi 4479
Cop: HEHL, UIllL. folium IxxIiij
Capitulum xx.
a-f8gh6 i-n8o6 ; {*2} 108 leaves , 2 - 106 numbered
Folium I - CV. 3a : 31 lines + headline , 143 (150) x 90 mm
Types : 130 title , headlines + c,; 92 text Capitals (1a(L),2)
The headlines give the chapter numbers
small wrong font i occasionally admixed
Gothic text type, in use in 1495 + down to end of period.
Peculiar heavy 2.. Proctor types 3,4.
(189 x 135 mm) Woodcut - Le Sauveur benit le globe.
The 1st genuine date connected to Froschauu is 1494 in
which he printed at least 5 books. He continued
printing into the 16th C.
This book may very possibly be as early as 1496.

Leipzig : Gregorius Bottiger (Werman) about 1495. 4o
Ref: Goff L-99 . Voull (B) 1383 Gunt(L) 1205 Madsen. 2157
GW(Nachtr.) 202. Haebler M44 type. (Inc. Hann)
Cop: LC. Copenhagen. Leipzig
{ 5th printer of 11 in Leipzig)
Gregorius Bottiger - {7 April 1492 - 1497 (an ed. of Vergil's Bucolics)
Type 90 - Schwabacher text type in use throughout. 2 forms
of S, one D reversed. II (as in Kachelofen) sometimes
found.
J. de Gruythode - Prior of the Carthusian House at Liege
(died 1472)
Leipzig printed mainly small Latin texts + handbooks -
by the end of the century Leipzig had produced over
500 incunabula. By 1500 Leipzig accounted for
eleven printing shops, the most of any German
city.