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Title

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

Authors

• Fournier, le jeune 1712-1768
• Baer, Friedrich Karl, 1719-1797

Other related names

• Maragioglio, Vito, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1072
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4231642
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4231642

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

after 1761

Place

France?

Summary

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).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from predominant work (f. 17r).
   

Extent

114 leaves : 228 x 160 mm. bound to 234 x 172 mm

Collation

Paper, ii + 111 + i; 1² 2-8¹⁶ ; 1, 1-93, 93-109; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 32-34 lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Printing--History--Origin and antecedents
• Printing--History--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Dissertation sur l'origine et les progre?s de l'art de graver en bois, f. 1r
• fol. 17r — De l'origine et des productions de l'imprimerie primitive en taille de bois, f. 17r
• fol. 70r — Observations sur un ouvrage intitule? Vindiciae typographicae, f. 70r
• fol. 83r — Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie, f. 83r
• fol. 93r — Remarques sur un ouvrage intitule? Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie, f. 93r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover