Guillaume Le Roy

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Guillaume Le Roy († 1493 ) was an incunabula printer who set up the first printing press in Lyon in 1473 .

Life

Guillaume Le Roy comes from Liège , where he first worked before moving to Cologne , Basel , Beromünster and finally to Lyon around 1472. In 1473 he built there for the publisher Barthélemy Buyer the first printing press in the city, on September 17, 1473 was with the Compendium breve , a work of Pope Innocent III. from his time as cardinal, presented the first book vais printed in Lyon. This Latin text is followed by a series of French translations of Latin originals (Old and New Testament and individual Biblical writings, the first French edition of the Speculum historiale by Vincent de Beauvais ) as well as original French texts, particularly novel-like representations such as the first print of the chivalric novel Baudouin, comte de Flandre . After the death of his employer in 1483, he went into business for himself. Within a short time a number of printers were operating in Lyon.

In 1486 Le Roy also printed a French edition of the Llibre dels àngels by the Catalan Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis and a French translation of the letter of the Priest-King John .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Jean-Baptiste Monfalcon, Histoire de la Ville de Lyon depuis son origine jusqu'en 1846 , Dorier 1847, vol. 1, pp. 550-553 .
  • Jean Favier , Le Roy (Guillaume) , in: Dictionnaire de la France médiévale , Paris 1993, p. 569
  • Dictionnaire des imprimeurs et libraires lyonnais du XVe siècle . In: Frédéric Barbier (ed.): Le berceau du livre: Autour des Incunables. Études et essais offerts au Professeur Pierre Aquilon par ses élèves, ses collèges et ses amis. Droz, Geneva 2004, ( Revue française d'histoire du livre , Nos 118–121), pp. 209–275, here pp. 236–238 (No. 87) ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  • Jakob Franck :  Leroy, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 426-428.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Referendissimi Lotharii Diaconi cardinalis ... Compendium breve feliciter incipit, quinque libros continens ... Lugduni (p ... magistrum Guillermum regis ... jussu et sumptibus Barth. Buyerii) M. CCCC. LXXIII quinto decimo Kal. Octobris "(September 17, 1473)
  2. ↑ Overview of all incunabula with Vincent von Beauvais
  3. ↑ published in 1479
  4. ↑ Overview of the incunabula with this text in the GW
  5. ↑ Proof in the GW . The first French version was published in Geneva in 1478 by Adam Steinschaber .
  6. ↑ Proof in the GW .
  7. ↑ Entry in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
  8. ↑ Entry in the GW
  9. ↑ Entry in the GW
  10. ↑ evidence in the GW ; Proof in ISTC
  11. ↑ Entries in GW: M34381 , M34383 ; Digitized
  12. ↑ Entry in the GW
  13. ↑ Proof in the GW
  14. ↑ Proof in the GW
  15. ↑ Proof in the GW
  16. ↑ One dated and one undated edition
  17. ↑ Proof in the GW
  18. ↑ evidence in the GW ; Digitized version of the Munich copy
  19. ↑ Proof in the GW
  20. ↑ 1477
  21. ↑ 1483
  22. ↑ 1486
  23. ↑ Overview of the expenses and basic information in the GW. Also printed in Lyon by other printers.
  24. ↑ Proof in the GW
  25. ↑ around 1485 , around 1485/86
  26. ↑ Proof in the GW
  27. ↑ Proof in the GW
  28. ↑ Proof in the GW
  29. ↑ Overview of incunabula editions in the GW
  30. ↑ Overview in the GW
  31. ↑ Proof in the GW
  32. ↑ Proof in the GW
  33. ↑ evidence in the GW ; In ISTC prepared before 1477th
personal data
SURNAME Le Roy, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guilelmus Regis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Letterpress v. a. in Lyon
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1493