• BRUNUS ARETINUS, DE BELLO ITALICO. Foligno: Johann Neumeister & Aemilianus de Orfinis, 1470

Collections:
  • Incunabula at Princeton
  • In Principio
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
  • Italy Grouping
  • The Scheide Library
  • Treasures of Rare Book Division
Curatorial Note:
  • It has been presumed but not proved that the printer Johann Neumeister, apparently a native of Mainz, began in the printing trade as a worker in the printing shops of Gutenberg or of Fust and Schoeffer. In any case, he is likely to have arrived to Foligno in Umbria from Rome, 75 miles to the south, for his type font is nearly identical to that of a printing shop formed the same year in Rome by a wealthy papal official, Johannes Philippus de Lignamine. The financial patron of the first Foligno press, Emiliano Orfini, was a papal mintmaster. Curiously, in the same year, 1470, a pamphlet for pilgrims to Assisi was printed only a few miles away, in the small neighboring town of Trevi, using a type that, though different, shows stylistic similarities to Neumeister’s.
Author:
  • Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Uniform title:
  • De bello Italico adversus Gothos
Provenance:
  • Princeton copy 1 has inscription on recto of leaf [1]: Jacques le Chandelier, 1550.
  • Princeton copy 1 from the Crevenna collection, according to note by Michael Wodhull.
  • Princeton copy 1 has signature of Michael Wodhull, with his annotations.
  • Princeton copy 1 has bookplates of Paul Girardot de Préfond, William Horatio Crawford and Grenville Kane.
  • Princeton copy 2: Purchased 5 December 2003, Sotheby's NY, lot 518, post-sale.
Former owner:
  • Chandelier, Jacques le
  • Crevenna, Pietro Antonio, known also as Bolongaro-Crevenna, -1792
  • Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816
  • Girardot de Préfond, Paul
  • Crawford, William Horatio, 1815?-1888
  • Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943
Creator:
  • Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
Language:
  • Latin
Call number:
  • EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
  • 40.1
Extent:
  • [74] leaves (leaves [1], [74] blank) ; 27 cm. (fol.)
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • Translated with abridgments from Procopius, De bello Gotico.
  • Colophon: Hunc libellum Emilianus de Vrsinis Eulginas & Iohannes Numeister theutunicus, eiusq[ue] sotii feliciter impresserunt. Fulginei in domo eiusde[m] Emiliani anno domini millesimoquadringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimo feliciter.
  • Princeton copy 1 imperfect: first blank leaf wanting.
Publisher:
  • [Foligno : Emiliano Orfini and Johann Neumeister, 1470]
Title sort:
  • Leonardi Aretini De bello Italico adversus Gothos.
Binding note:
  • Princeton copy 1 in red goatskin with floral borders profusely tooled in gold; inner dentelles tooled in gold; blue moiré silk endpapers; all edges gilt.
References:
  • Hain-Copinger, 1558.
  • Proctor, 5721.
  • Goff, B-1234.
  • GW, 5600.
  • BM 15th cent., VI, 599 (IB.25403).
  • Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2762.
  • ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), ib01234000.
Printer:
  • Neumeister, Johann, active 1470-1495
  • Orfini, Emiliano
Created:
  • 1470-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1470
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/fj2366427
Location:
  • HSVR EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
  • HSVR 40.1
  • WHS EXKA Incunabula 1470 Bruni
  • WHS 40.1
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
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