De l'origine et des productions de l'imprimerie primitive en taille de bois ... [etc.]

Name:

Fournier, le jeune (Pierre Simon), 1712-1768; Baer, Friedrich Karl, 1719-1797

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1761

Description:

Manuscript copies of four works on the history of printing by Fournier le jeune and one response by Karl Friedrich Baer, all published between 1758 and 1761. In the first work he asserts that Johann Gutenberg was not the inventor of printing. The third work, Baer's response, and the fourth work all concern Johann Daniel Schoepflin's work on Gutenberg, Vindiciae typographicae, published in 1760. The third work also includes a separate index for each of the first three works, as they appeared in the printed edition with the suggestion that the three works be bound together. A table of contents with the titles of all the works translated into Italian has been added by a somewhat later hand (f. ii recto).

Language:

French

Provenance:

Label at head of spine: Collezione Clerici.; Bookplate inside upper cover: Ex libris Viti Josephi Maragioglio.; Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London), 2007.; Maragioglio, Vito, former owner.

Subject:

Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468; Schoepflin, Johann Daniel, 1694-1771. Vindiciae typographicae; Printing -- History -- Origin and antecedents; Printing; History; Printing -- History -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

114 leaves : paper; 228 x 160 mm bound to 234 x 172 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; French engraver and typefounder.; Title from predominant work (f. 17r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-16v: Dissertation sur l'origine et les progrès de l'art de graver en bois, pour éclaircir quelques traits de l'histoire de l'imprimerie, et prouver que Guttemberg n'est pas l'inventeur / Fournier le jeune.; Table of contents: 2. f.17r-69v: De l'origine et des productions de l'imprimerie primitive en taille de bois; avec une réfutation des préjugés plus ou moins accrédités sur cet art / Fournier le jeune.; Table of contents: 3. f.70r-82v: Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé Vindiciae typographicae / Fournier le jeune.; Table of contents: 4. f.83r-92v: Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie, servant de réponse aux observations publieés par M. Fournier le jeune, sur l'ouvrage de M. Schoepflin, intitulé Vindiciae typographicae / [Friedrich Karl Baer]; Table of contents: 5. f.93r-109r: Remarques sur un ouvrage intitulé Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie, etc. / Fournier le jeune.; Collation: Paper, ii + 111 + i; 1² 2-8¹⁶; 1, 1-93, 93-109; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 32-34 lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script.; Binding: Contemporary boards.; Origin: Written, probably in France, after 1761.; French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1072