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Eíiíry 5, Figure 2.

Josephus, Flavius.

fosephi, Zwentzig bûcher von den alten geschichtet!.

Strassburg: [Balthassar Beck], 1535.

Actual size of block 6.0 x 5.8 cm.

5. Josephus, Flavius.

[Opera, German, tr. Caspar Hedion:]
Josephi... Zwentzig bûcher von den alten
geschichten. Strassburg: Balthasar Beck,
May 1535. F°.

The German edition of Josephus's
Works was retranslated from Erasmus's
Latin translation and printed by Bal¬
thassar Beck in Strassburg in 1535.
Despite their many imperfections,
which include, not insignificantly,
their dubious value as history, and
the intrusive vamping of the author,
the writings of Flavius Josephus
(37/38-ca. 100) on the Jewish revolt
of 66-70 and on earlier Jewish history
do shed an invaluable light on the
mentality of subject peoples under
the Roman Empire. The printer, Bal¬
thassar Beck (fl. 1525-1552), employs
a bâtarde typeface—a name given to
vernacular, or regional, typefaces based
upon scribal paradigms in which speed
of composition replaced formality (see
also #29, 30); the most remarkable
feature of Beck's type is its grotesque
Fraktur capitals (see also #27).

The Rutgers copy bound in quarter
sheep with pattern paper end sheets;
provenance: ex libris Dr. George Kloss
(1787-1854); nineteenth-century
manuscript signatures of Michael
Gamel and Joannis Gross [Johann
Friedrich Gross? (1732-1795)].

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Reference: GofFJ-485

The First One Hundred Years of Printing

6. [Print 2] Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528).
St. Jerome in His Cell. 1511.

Wood relief.

Loaned by the Zimmerli Art Museum.

Gift of the Estate of

Raymond V. Carpenter, ZAM #054.

7. [Print 3] Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528).
Virgin with a Pear. 1511.
Engraving.

Loaned by the Zimmerli Art Museum.

Gift of the Estate of

Raymond V. Carpenter, ZAM #0540.

8. Rainerius de Pisis (fl. 1330-1347,
d.ca. 1351).

Pantheologia, sive, Summa
universae theologiae.
[Augsburg: Günther Zainer], 1474.
Royal F".

Günther Zainer, a native of Reutlin¬
gen, established himself in 1468 as the
first printer of Augsburg, an Imperial
free city which became, alongside
Strassburg and Nuremberg, one of
the trio of great printing towns of
southern Germany. From 1468 to
1477, Zainer was perhaps the most
active and diversified printer in
Germany. He issued both Latin and
German texts, ranging in size from
the Pantheologia shown here to single-
leaf calendars. From 1471, many of
his works were illustrated with wood¬
cut series, and others, whose texts did
not call for illustration, with attractive
woodcut initials. Zainer introduced
Roman types to Germany (late 1471),
stating in his first use of them that he
ceded nothing to the Italians. He died
13 April 1478.

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Entry 8, Figure 3.

Rainerus de Pisis, (fl. 1330-1347, d. ca. 1351).

Pantheologia,sive, Summa universae theologiae.

[Augsburg: Günther Zainer], 1474.

Actual size of block 4.0 x 3.9 cm.