Eucharius silver

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Eucharius Silber , also called Franck , († between November 1509 and September 1510 in Rome ) was an incunabula printer from the Diocese of Würzburg.

Live and act

The oldest print published under his name is dated May 20, 1480 ( GW 6477), but the name Eucharius Silber appears as early as 1478 in a list of witnesses of a Roman notary. Like many Roman book printers of that time, who had the minor orders granted in order to be able to receive benefices , the income of which was a welcome security for them, was also Eucharius silver clergyman. His office at Campo de 'Fiori was probably located in a building that belonged to Pietro Massimo and in which Konrad Sweynheym († 1476) and Arnold Pannartz had already printed. From 1485 he was a member of the brotherhood at the Church of Santa Maria dell'Anima .

At the beginning of his printing activity, Silber made reprints of already successful books elsewhere. Works that are easy to sell on site, such as pilgrim guides, devotional items and entertainment literature, but also forms, office rules and other handouts for clerics who have traveled to Rome or are permanently active there, consistently formed a basis of his range.

While the first classic editions published by Eucharius Silber were still reprints, he soon made a name for himself as a careful printer and several humanists commissioned him to print their editions or their own texts. Among them were the editio princeps of Vitruvius' De architectura (GW M51000) provided by Pomponius Laetus worried editions of the letters of Pliny the Younger (GW M34357) and the works of Sallust (GW M39655), the translation of the Nicomachean Ethics by John Argyropoulos (GW 2363) and the Castigationes plinianae by Hermolaus Barbarus (GW 3340).

That the printing of such works was not financed by Eucharius silver can be seen well in the prefaces and afterwords to the edition of Aristotle's Politics with the commentary of Thomas Aquinas (GW 2448); the money for the unusually high print run of 1500 copies came from Cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini . The exception, which confirms the rule, is the printing of the book Contra pragmaticam Gallorum sanctionem (GW 4966) by Hélie de Bourdeilles (1423–1484), also at the expense of silver, as the colophon emphasizes in an effective way.

The dispute over the 900 theses of Pico della Mirandola (GW M33295) can be traced back to silver prints. Pedro Garcia, who had belonged to the papal commission which classified some of these theses as heretical , published his Determinationes magistrales contra conclusions Johannis Pici Mirandulae (GW 10549) also in Silber.

Current events often echoed in silver prints, such as the siege of Rhodes and the death of Mehmed the Conqueror . Numerous works related to the conquest of the emirate of Granada suggest that Silber had close ties with the representatives of the Spanish king in Rome. The Historia Baetica by Carolus Verardus (GW M49593) should be emphasized here . He printed Christopher Columbus' letter about his discoveries both in a Latin translation (GW 7178) and in the Italian version by Giuliano Dati (GW 7999). Also, the Mundus Novus of Amerigo Vespucci was printed from silver. The dispute over Girolamo Savonarola also provided material for several prints.

After the death of his father Eucharius, Marcellus Silber continued the shop until the Sacco di Roma in 1527.

Catalogs

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Bockwitz: Famous printer-publisher of the incunable period. II. Eucharius silver. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade . Frankfurter Edition 3 (1947) 16/17, pp. 321–322 and 4 (1948) 17, p. 490.
  • Paola Farenga: Le edizioni di Eucario silver. In: M. Chiabò, S. Maddalo, M. Miglio, AM Oliva (eds.): Roma di fronte all'Europa al tempo di Alessandro VI. Atti del Convegno (Città del Vaticano-Roma, 1–4 December 1999). Volume II. Roma nel Rinascimento, Rome 2001, ISBN 88-7125-214-4 , pp. 409-439.
  • Paola Farenga: Eucario Silver. In: Repertorium Pomponianum. October 2007, accessed April 3, 2011 (Italian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Esch : German early printers in Rome in the registers of Pope Sixtus IV. In: Mario Ascheri, Gaetano Colli (ed.): Manoscritti, editoria e biblioteche dal medioeva all'età contemporanea. Studi offerti a Domenico Maffei per il suo ottantesimo compleanno. Volume I. Roma nel Rinascimento, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-85913-46-6 , pp. 281-302, here p. 297; repeated in Arnold Esch: La prima generazione dei tipografi tedeschi a Roma (1465 - 1480): nuovi dati dai registri di Paolo II e Sisto IV. In: Bullettino dell'Istituto storico italiano per il medio Evo 109 (2007) 1, p. 401-418, here p. 414.
  2. ^ Anna Modigliani: Massimo, Pietro . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 72 (2009), pp. 15-16.
  3. ^ Clifford W. Maas: German Printers and the German Community in Renaissance Rome. In: The Library s5-XXXI (1976), pp. 118-126 here p. 124 doi: 10.1093 / library / s5-XXXI.2.118 .
  4. ^ Alberto Tinto: Gli annali tipografici di Eucario e Marcello Silber (1501–1527). Leo S. Olschki, Florenz 1968, pp. 19-20, no. 14.
  5. ↑ Reviewed by DE Rhodes in: The Library s5-XXV (1970), pp. 163-164 doi: 10.1093 / library / s5-XXV.2.163 . The introduction to the book was also published separately in advance: Alberto Tinto: Introduzione agli annali tipografici die Eucario e Marcello Silber (1501–1527). In: La Bibliofilia LXV (1963) 3, pp. 239-248.
personal data
SURNAME Silver, Eucharius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franck, Eucharius; Argenteus, Eucharius; Argyrius, Eucharius; Silver, Eucario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German incunabula printer in Rome
DATE OF BIRTH before 1470
PLACE OF BIRTH Diocese of Würzburg
DATE OF DEATH between November 1509 and September 1510
Place of death Rome