Details

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

French engraver and typefounder.

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).

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.
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.
3. f.70r-82v: Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé Vindiciae typographicae / Fournier le jeune.
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]
5. f.93r-109r: Remarques sur un ouvrage intitulé Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie, etc. / Fournier le jeune.

Notes:

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

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1072

Contributor:

Baer, Friedrich Karl, 1719-1797.
Maragioglio, Vito, former owner.

Contains:

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.
Observations sur un ouvrage intitulé Vindiciae typographicae.
Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie.
Remarques sur un ouvrage intitulé Lettre sur l'origine de l'imprimerie.

OCLC:

182555033