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[Leaf 7] Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514).
[Liber chronicarum]. Liber cronkarum.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493.
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Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-ca. 1298).

Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive Lombardica historia.

Lyons: Mathias Huss, 1487.

Actual size of block 8.0 x 6.6 cm.

28. [Leaf 4] Missal. (See color plate
on page 55)

[Beauvais, ca. 1280.]

Textura in red and black, with

musical notation.

29. [Leaf 5] Schedel, Hartmann,
1440-1514.

[Liber chronicarum]. Liber cronkarum.
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493.
(See#4,#Al.)

30. [Leaf 6] Bible. Germa«. 1483.
[Nuremburg: Anton Koberger, 1483].

Hand-colored woodcut illustration
from the Book of Exodus. The illustra¬
tions for Anton Koberger's German
Bible were previously used for the
Cologne edition of the Bible pub¬
lished by Heinrich Quentell (d. 1501)
in 1480 (see also #53). Of the German
dialect Koberger used, Luther is
reputed to have said, "no one could
speak German of this outlandish kind"
(Oswald, 63).The type belongs to the
family of bâtarde typefaces and antici¬
pates the later subgroup of gothic
types called 'Schwabacher.'

Printing in France

31. Jacobus de Voragine
(ca. 1230-ca. 1298).
Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive
Lombardica historia.

Lyons: Mathias Huss, 20 July 1487.
Chancery F°.

Generally speaking, the early printed
vernacular editions of the Legenda

Trie First One Hundred Years or Printim

aurea had woodcut illustrations of the saints, while
those in Latin did not. The exceptions to the latter
rule are an edition printed by Günther Zainer in
Augsburg, not after 1475 (GofFJ-84), which reused
the woodcuts of Zainer's German edition of 1471-72
(GoffJ-156); and the two Lyons editions of Mathias
Huss, 1486 and 1487, which used a newly commis¬
sioned series of 123 woodblocks.The completion date
"20 July" in the colophon of this, the second of Huss's
editions, is possibly inaccurate, for it may be blindly
copied from the "20 July 1486" completion date in
Huss's earlier edition. Huss used his woodcut series a
third time, in his 17 December 1488 edition of the
French version, La legende doree, which survives in only
a single copy.

The Rutgers copy is one of about a dozen surviving;
it formerly belonged to the Buenos Aires book collec¬
tor Jorge Berestayn. Acquired by the Libraries through
the Duncan Dunbar Sutphen Fund; 545524.

Re/erence.'GoffJ-118

Caesar.Julius. [Works. 1519] Commentaria Caesaris
nuperrime impressa:ab omnibus erratis accurate castigata...
Lugduni:Ex officina Guilhelmi Huyon.Anno
M.D.XIX. Die autem XX. Decembris, leone X. Pont.
Max. [i.e. 20 December 1519]. 8°.

Caesar's Commentaria was the first book to come
from the press of Guillaume Huyon (fl. 1519-1520),
of Lyon, in 1519. It is edited by Fra Giovanni Gio¬
condo (ca. 1433—1515), an accomplished architectural
engineer and author, with an index by Raimondo
da Marliano.

The Rutgers copy is bound in early calf (rebacked)
over wooden boards, stamped in blind, with gilt
corner pieces, headbands, metal clasps (lacking), and
blue upper edge; with early annotations; 360568.

Reference: BN v.25, col.875-876